Pictured is 74 year-old Louis Fussell, who is about to embark on his tenth cycle ride to Scotland, seeking sponsorship in aid of the appeal. A dance is to take place at Goldington Middle School this Saturday, and the Bedford Electronic Organ Society will be donating proceeds from a performance at the Addison Centre in Kempston. And on Friday Richard Ledger, pastor of Thurleigh Baptist Church, organised a coffee morning and bring and buy sale. One in three people get it. I think this appeal is tremendously worth while.
Police hunting for an arsonist are keen to trace a man who has reported many of the blazes.
At least ten fires in the last six months are being connected - including two in the Pearcey Road area of Bedford in the last week. Police took the unusual step of releasing the recordings of the reports, in the hope that someone will recognise the voice. An appeal has been made following the unsuccessful application for a drinks licence for a nightclub on Bedford's Howard Chapel. A couple of con artists became somewhat unstuck on Friday afternoon when they called at the flat of a man in Brancaster Close, Bedford, to say that they were investigating a water leak from a property upstairs. One man went into the kitchen and fiddled with taps, but the resident became suspicious when he spotted the other emerging from a bedroom.