News published July 2019
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Thursday, 18 July 2019
Digital fingerprint artwork unveiled in the new Dunstable Library
A unique digital art installation, which has been created with the help of four schools and Autism Bedfordshire, was unveiled in the new Dunstable Library last week (10 July).
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Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Join our fun outdoor events in Central Bedfordshire to celebrate ‘Love Parks Week’
We are celebrating Love Parks Week by holding a series of activities to inspire people of all ages to play, explore, exercise and relax, running from 24 July – 2 August.
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Wednesday, 17 July 2019
New wildlife artwork to mark local cycle routes
With the support of Sustrans, we have installed two attractive bespoke pieces of artwork on national cycling routes in locations close to Dunstable and Luton Airport.
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Monday, 15 July 2019
Six Green Flags to fly across Central Bedfordshire parks
Six open spaces in Central Bedfordshire have today been recognised as some of the best community-run green spaces in the country in the UK’s National Green Flag Awards 2019.
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Thursday, 11 July 2019
Ampthill Proms instrumental in showcasing music education
Young people performing on the same Ampthill Proms bill as Britain’s Got Talent-winning singers Collabro demonstrated the importance of music education.
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Thursday, 11 July 2019
Trialling changes to the programme at Sandy Sports and Community Centre
SLL is currently consulting staff on some changes to the programme at Sandy Sports and Community Centre.
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Thursday, 11 July 2019
Four convicted for Blue Badge fraud
We led a crackdown on Blue Badge disabled parking fraud and saw another four devious drivers successfully convicted of wrongful use of a disabled person’s badge on 9 July.
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Monday, 8 July 2019
Library and teachers help inspire local schoolgirl’s literary success
Local schoolgirl, Nyah Atkinson of Thornhill Primary School in Houghton Regis, has made it through to the recent semi-final of BBC Radio 2’s prestigious ‘500-words’ story writing competition.
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Monday, 8 July 2019
Services work together to create summer SEND sessions
Leisure services and the personalisation (including short breaks) project team, have been working to arrange some activity sessions over the summer holidays for families with SEND.
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Thursday, 4 July 2019
Blast-off into summer with the Space Chase Summer Reading Challenge
We're calling for children to sign up to ‘Space Chase’, the 2019 Summer Reading Challenge.