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News from Bedford Today

• Hit Cycletta series to ride into Woburn Abbey
  PICTURESQUE Woburn Abbey has been picked as one of seven venues in the country to hold a Cycletta event to coincide with the Olympic Games.
• Jobs: Standards body launches new way of measuring recruitment decisions
  A NEW way of making sure that the right people get selected for jobs has been launched by a standards body.
• Get a boost at bootcamp
  Click to see our video of Rachel Benton’s Embankment bootcamp.
• Villagers campaign to save The George
  VILLAGERS are urging people to join them in their fight to keep a 500-year-old pub open.
• Extra parish plans scrapped for now by council chiefs
  PLANS to create new parish councils for areas in Bedford Borough have been shelved.
• Dog Walk for Charity
  WALK your dog round the park and raise money for charity.
• Sentencing date for group whose drugs operation was based partly in Bedford
  EIGHT people who ran a Class A drugs operation that saw the narcotics adulterated and repackaged in Bedford have been jailed.
• Nahida touches down as Student of the Year
  A BEDFORD Academy student has been named East of England Student of the Year after rubbing shoulders with Olympic athletes at a star-studded event held at Wembley Stadium.
• New arts hub open
  A CREATIVE centre for Bedford youngsters hosted a special launch event on Saturday.
• Emmaus is a ‘godsend’
  THIS week marked National Homelessness Sunday, a time to consider how best to help those who have nowhere to live.
• Holocaust Memorial Day events
  REMEMBERING the Holocaust will be the order of the day on Friday across Bedford Borough.
• Man swung fists during his hospital treatment
  A MAN who suffers from conditions including social phobia clenched his fists at a nurse who was trying to treat him at Bedford Hospital, a court heard on Tuesday.
• ‘Three-tier does not work’ - college
  EDUCATION in a three-tier system ‘simply does not work’ according to Bedford College chiefs.