Luton

Luton ( or locally ) is a lairge toun an unitar authority o Bedfordshire, Ingland, 30 miles (51 kilometres) north o Lunnon. Luton an its near neighbours, Dunstable an Houghton Regis, form the Luton/Dunstable Urban Aurie wi a population o ower 240,000.Luton Borough Council, 2009 Mid year population estimates for Luton .Central Bedfordshire Council, Central Bedfordshire’s population. Dunstable 35,120. Houghton Regis 16,670.

Luton is hame tae Blue Square Premier team Luton Town Football Club, whose history includes several spells in the top flicht o the Inglis league as well as a Football League Cup triumph in 1988. They play at Kenilworth Road stadium, which haes been their hame syne 1905.

London Luton Airport, opened in 1938, is ane o Ingland's major airports. Durin the Seicont Warld War it doubled as an RAF base.

The University o Bedfordshire is based in the toun.

The Luton Carnival, held on the late Maey bank holiday, is the lairgest ane-day carnival in Europe.

The toun wis for mony years famous for hat-makin an wis an aa hame tae a lairge Vauxhall Motors factory; the heid office o Vauxhall Motors is still situatit in the towun. Caur production at the plant began in 1905 an continued till 2002, but commercial vehicle production remains.

Twin touns
Luton participates in internaitional toun twinnin; its pairtners are:

 Kintra Place Coonty / Destrict / Region / State Date   Germany
  25px Bergisch Gladbach
  25px North Rhine-Westphalie 1956   Fraunce
  Bourgoin-Jallieu
  Rhône-Alpes  1956   Swaden
  Eskilstuna
  25px Södermanland  1949   Germany
  25px Berlin-Spandau
  25px Berlin 1959   Germany
  25px Wolfsburg
  25px Lawer Saxony 1950   Israel
  25px Haifa
  25px Haifa Destrict 1966

References


Category:Touns in Bedfordshire
Category:Places in Bedfordshire leetit in the Domesday Book
Category:Local govrenment in Bedfordshire
Category:Unitar authorities o Ingland
Category:Hat makin
Category:Local govrenment destricts o the East o Ingland