Ex-Town star Grimes gets back into football
Luton Town Littlewoods Cup winner Ashley Grimes has been appointed assistant manager at Blue Square Bet North side Colwyn Bay by first-time boss Frank Sinclair.The former Republic of Ireland...
View ArticlePleat hopes Town can bounce back and win promotion
Former Town manager David Pleat hopes Hatters can emulate his 1984-85 side after their FA Cup fifth round defeat to Millwall on Saturday, writes Mike Simmonds.Under Pleat’s stewardship, Town suffered a...
View ArticleLeighton assault leaves man with fractured skull
An 18-year-old man was left with a fractured skull after being seriously assaulted outside a Leighton Buzzard bar at the weekend.The assault happened at around 3.30am in the early hours of Saturday...
View Article£189m budget means freeze on council tax
Central Beds Council announced a freeze on council tax for the third year running, after agreeing the budget for 2013/14 at a meeting last night (February 21).The council tax freeze means that tax for...
View ArticleAccident closes road in Leighton Buzzard
Police have closed a road just outside Leighton Buzzard following an accident this evening.Hockliffe Road in Tebworth is closed in both directions between the Wingfield Road junction and the A5...
View ArticleUPDATE: Woman taken to hopsital following collision
A woman has been taken to hospital after a road traffic collision on Hockliffe Road.Fire crew from Toddington attended the scene after being called at 5.23pm this evening with reports of car in...
View ArticlePREVIEW: Luton Town v Mansfield
Mansfield are finally showing the sort of form that made them one of the firmest favourites for promotion at the beginning of the season, writes Mike Simmonds.A campaign of early highs and lows has now...
View ArticleAll the odds as Luton host Mansfield
The BetVictor News/Gazette columnIt is always sad to see a manager leave a Club although I can’t say I was surprised to hear of the departure of Paul Buckle midweek although the circumstances...
View ArticleLarry’s set to scare in Lightfields
Stewkley rising star Larry Mills is set to feature in a new five part television series that begins its prime-time run on Wednesday night.Larry, of High Street South, is appearing in Lightfields, the...
View ArticleBBC’s Stephen Rhodes kicked out from Eaton Bray footie meeting
Campaigning consumer rights broadcaster Stephen Rhodes led a mass walkout when he was ejected from a parish council meeting for standing up for villagers’ rights.The former BBC Three Counties Radio...
View ArticleWaddock favourite with bookies for Town job
Former Wycombe and Aldershot boss Gary Waddock is the hot favourite with bookies to replace Paul Buckle as Luton manager, writes Mike Simmonds.Buckle left the club on Tuesday afternoon and Waddock, who...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVDs: Hope Springs, Sinister
There may be a lack of spark in the bedroom, but there’s dry wit in abundance in HOPE SPRINGS (12: Momentum), with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a couple trying to recapture that old...
View ArticleTraders claim Leighton community is being ignored
Those who feel Leighton’s High Street will be destroyed by the imminent out-of-town retail park have spoken out against the fight between developers plans and maintaining community spirit.Tom Shattock,...
View ArticleCruel last-minute defeat is a hammer blow to Hatters’ play-off hopes
Blue Square Bet Premier: Luton Town 2 (1) Mansfield Town 3 (2)A last-minute 3-2 defeat to play-off rivals Mansfield Town all but killed off Luton’s promotion hopes at Kenilworth Road this afternoon,...
View ArticleHatters rated v Mansfield Town
Mark Tyler: 7 – No chance with the goals and his late reaction stop deserved more than to lead to Mansfield’s winner at the death.Lathaniel Rowe-Turner: 5.5 – Harried early on, grew defensively, but...
View ArticleDoes Linslade man find true love on ITV’s Take Me Out?
Tonight is the night viewers will find out if a man from Linslade got lucky and found love on ITV’s dating show.Matt Dunford, of Bideford Green, was spotted by producers to appear in the latest series...
View ArticleTown duo want new manager appointed swiftly
Hatters caretaker boss Alan Neilson and striker Scott Rendell have urged the Luton board to name their new manager as soon as possible, writes Mike Simmonds. Town saw their play-off chances take a...
View ArticleVote for Town’s MOM against Mansfield
The Luton News/Dunstable Gazette online man of the match poll for Town’s 3-2 Blue Square Bet Premier defeat to Mansfield is up and running.Hatters’ twice got back into the match courtesy of goals from...
View ArticleNeilson rues individual mistakes as Luton fall to defeat
Hatters assistant boss Alan Neilson was left ruing individual errors as Town were beaten 3-2 by Mansfield on Saturday, writes Mike Simmonds.It had looked like Town would earn a point after they twice...
View ArticleMaybe helicopters are the transport solution after all!
Leighton Buzzard Writers’ LBO Column.This week by Phil WilkinsonThe newly-elected police chief who announced that Leighton is, ‘on his map,’ might like to share that map with the helicopter pilots who...
View Article