TWINWOOD FESTIVAL
Don't tell anyone but... there is something called Twinwood weather. And it doesn't involve rain. When the gates open for the start of a festival, the sun shines up there ...
(16/08/2008)
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THEATRE REVIEW
As the latest casualty of gang warfare on London's mean streets is laid to rest by his grieving family disorganised knife crime comes to Milton Keynes ...
(16/08/2008)
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CIRCUS
Roll up, roll up... The Festival Circus is coming to town. With a new show for 2008, this all-human entertainment includes 22 of the best circus performers from around the world. ...
(16/08/2008)
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FOOD REVIEW: THE KNIFE AND CLEAVER
I never thought I'd be suggesting brown bread ice cream as a hangover cure. Well, I am and believe me, I have tried and tested a fair few in my time ...
(16/08/2008)
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FAMILY FUN: SNAKES DAY
Aversion therapy for snake-ophobics? Or a chance for reptilea- philes to give a boa constrictor a cuddle? Snakes Days, run by Wrigglies, a local society which aims to educate people ...
(19/08/2008)
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EXHIBITION
Primitive meets polka dot in Jill Taylor's paintings currently on display in the Art Centre Gallery, Bedford. The artist studied in Leeds and the Netherlands, where she lived and worked for ...
(19/08/2008)
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TRAVEL: BALI
As the sound of wedding bells died away reporter Simon Hutchinson and his lovely bride Helen set off for a romantic honeymoon destination...
(19/08/2008)
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A slim volume of poetry arrives on the leisure editor's desk. It's called Jitterwhirring and it is the latest published anthology of verse written by prize winners who attended the ...
(08/08/2008)
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STREET ENTERTAINMENT
The hero rises up - or should that be climbs down? Two hundred years after the Battle of Trafalgar Lord Nelson is back on manoeuvres. The land-based kind ...
(19/08/2008)
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EATING OUT: EAT FISH
I may not know a lot about food but I know what I like. Actually I am fussier about the restaurant than the food. I hate in almost equal measure poor ...
(19/08/2008)
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Expect the unexpected at Wild Britain this summer. Apart from the change of name - Bedford Butterfly Park metamorphosed into Wild Britain earlier this year - there's lots more to discover ...
(08/08/2008)
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EXHIBITION
Sport, generally speaking, doesn't really do it for me. People, on the other hand - and their stories - do. The new exhibition at Bedford Museum is all about people. They are ...
(19/08/2008)
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EXHIBITION
EEEK! it may be your idea of a bad dream but there's a wasp the size of a rugby ball down at Bedford Museum.And beetles as big as your guinea ...
(19/08/2008)
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EXHIBITION: JOHN BUNYAN MUSEUM
Happy birthday to the John Bunyan museum, ten years old this summer. Born in a cottage in Elstow, the 17th century Christian writer and religious leader was a man of strong ...
(19/08/2008)
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BEDFEST 2008
Tickets for this year's Rhythm Festival, at the Twinwood Arena, Clapham over the weekend of August 29/30/31 are finding a new breed of audience-goer ...
(26/07/2008)
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We're not going on a summer holiday - but there's still a chance to watch the classic Cliff Richard movie, drive around Bedford on a red London double-decker bus and ...
(19/08/2008)
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SUMMER OF HUGS
Hey man! It's going to be peace and love this summer in Bedfordshire, according to the UK's leading woodland conservation charity ...
(19/08/2008)
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What's this? Can it be? Do we dare? Yes, that big yellow glowing ball in the sky IS the sun. Cast your clouts, May is not only out but long ...
(19/08/2008)
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Milton Keynes Theatre has announced that legendary TV and film actor Henry Winkler will be the bad guy you love to hate this Christmas as he takes on the role ...
(19/08/2008)
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