Police are keeping tabs on local Serbs, BoS reports, as refugees from war-torn Kosovo begin to arrive in Bedford. There are some 140 asylum seekers who are currently in the area. The warrant was issued at Harrow Crown Court, for the arrest of Robert Diggins, formerly of Northampton Road, Bromham. It is believed that he has left the country. De Montfort University students staged a walkout this week claiming they are being treated as second class citizens.
Students there are furious at being charged to attend their graduation ceremony.
They are also unhappy at the way the university, based in Leicester, treats the Bedford site as a 'country cousin'. Most resources stay in Leicester, with only the loose change coming to Bedford, say the students. On Wednesday they staged a mass walkout and protest at the PoIhill Avenue site. If indeed the University, based in Leicester, has been short-changing the Lansdowne and Polhill sites that would certainly be a betrayal of the former Bedford College of Higher Education. Promises were made when the merger was mooted, but many people feel that De Montfort, with branches all over the place, may have been overreaching itself.