THE REAL ENIGMA HEROES
Bletchley Park is falling down.Well not quite but the Second World War home of codebreakers is in dire need of restoration. It relies on charity and hand-outs, when you would think ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW: DUNSTABLE AND DISTRICT AT WAR
Dunstable and District at War is a timless archive of first hand accounts of the events that shaped Dunstable and the United Kingdom during the second world war ...
(01/08/2008)
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Well, I wouldn't have thought that there was enough about Stopsley to fill a book but consider my hat well and truly eaten...
(02/05/2008)
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"This is the way the whole world is going: you will soon find your cities so thick with chemical vapours that air will have to be pumped into them from ...
(18/04/2008)
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From Country Boy To Weatherman is a first class memoir telling tale after tale of what it was like to grow up in the Houghton and Dunstable area ...
(18/04/2008)
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THE CALI ALBUM, BY DIANE ILKA
The Cali album is a tantalising walk down memory lane for many hipsters from the 60s and 70s. The site of the old Dunstable Swimming Baths was bought in 1947 for ...
(29/03/2008)
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They say there's a novel inside each and every one of us. Mine is proving particularly difficult to winkle out. But for Pat Walsh, the story is very different ...
(14/03/2008)
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What came first? The chicken or the egg? Greater minds than mine have pondered the question....
(03/03/2008)
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The names and places may have been changed, but the idea is that the essence of the book realistically reflects the problems associated with youth culture today ...
(03/03/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW
Take a look at the picture reproduced and see if you can figure out where in Bedford you are. Once I tell you that the spire of St Paul's church can ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW
Adam Jacot De Boinod (English, French): someone who has come up with the brilliant idea of bringing out an entertaining, novelty book in time for Christmas ...
(01/08/2008)
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On one level, this collection of drawings and the thoughts that they prompted in the artist is, indeed, very much Bernard West's notion of Bedfordshire ...
(01/08/2008)
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As if Bedfordshire hasn't got enough chocolate-box villages. Now, local historian, Dick Dawson tells us we could have had at least 17 more such picturesque neighbourhoods if only they hadn't been ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW
If you are an aspiring author there are some very good things to be said for the advent of selfpublishing. having accomplished the formidable task of actually writing a book there ...
(01/08/2008)
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This is not a book for lovers of classical architecture or those of a weak disposition. It is a catalogue of errors exposing a trail of destruction that ripped the heart ...
(01/08/2008)
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She may have relocated to the more literary haunts of Ludlow in Shropshire but crime writer Kate Charles has left behind a loyal readership in Bedford ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW
I don't know about you but the only autobiographies I tend to read (sadly) are those of mindless celebrities to get all the dirty gossip ...
(01/08/2008)
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I have to admit I'm not much of a sports fan, in fact my colleagues would tell you I'm no sports fan at all ...
(31/08/2007)
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BOOK REVIEW
Many journalists are frustrated novelists. Many newspaper bosses are just frustrated. An ex newspaper boss has recently vented any such feelings by writing his first novel ...
(31/08/2007)
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Innocence, sin, penance, redemption. Punks. Bikers. Drugs. The Costa Del Crime - and it all starts in Leighton Buzzard. Julian Wolfendale's semi-autobiographical stampede through more than 20 years of hedonism and soul ...
(26/09/2007)
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I have to admit I'm not much of a sports fan, in fact my colleagues would tell you I'm no sports fan at all ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW
Many journalists are frustrated novelists. Many newspaper bosses are just frustrated. An ex newspaper boss has recently vented any such feelings by writing his first novel ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW
Ingredients for the ideal summer read include an ounce of romance, rural surroundings, a handful of loveable characters and maybe the odd pinch of incest to help it go down ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW: HARRY POTTER
The latest Harry Potter book looks set to work its magic on readers everywhere. Released last weekend, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the final instalment of J.K. Rowling's ...
(01/08/2008)
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BOOK REVIEW
Lots of people research their family history - not too many get the results published. Of course we can't all lay claim to six MPs and a smattering of High Sheriffs ...
(01/08/2008)
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Introducing Matt - ten and a half years old going on 45. Matt is one of the many children in this country who don't live in what David Cameron calls 'a ...
(01/08/2008)
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