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Dunstable's D-Day weather forecasters remembered in Parliament
Alex Mayer's Parliament tribute honours the Dunstable Met Office staff whose forecast helped delay D-Day by a full day. Updated November 2026.
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Council tax
Council Tax Support cut stays for 2027, council proposes
No change to Council Tax Support in 2027/28: 10,284 working-age households keep a 75% maximum discount, with the same income bands. Councillors look at it on 3 November.
Leighton Buzzard
Leighton Buzzard TV interference: free fix, 0808 13 13 800
Mobile mast upgrades in Leighton Buzzard may disrupt Freeview and other aerial TV. Restore TV sends a free filter and can arrange an engineer if that fails.
Politics
Budget 2026: £100 energy payment for 40,000 homes, MP says
About 40,000 homes in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard qualify for a £100 energy payment in 2027, Alex Mayer MP says. What else is in the Budget, and when.
House Prices
Central Beds house prices: up 0.1%, slowest in two years
The average Central Bedfordshire home was £355,263 in August, up just 0.1% in a year: the weakest growth since July 2024. Detached homes and flats both fell.
Fire Service
Fire service plan: Leighton Buzzard crews' 771 medical calls
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue's draft five-year plan is open for comment until 15 January. It names no change at Lake Street; its data shows how busy crews are.
Linslade
Linslade Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Linslade
Linslade roadworks: Lime Grove (now, until 18 Nov) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked.
Linslade
Linslade Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Linslade weather today: light drizzle, 10°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 30% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph.
Health
750,000 L&D and Bedford patient records now digital
More than 750,000 adult patient records at the L&D and Bedford Hospital are now digital, saving the trust about £2m a year, plus £30,000 a month on storage.
Local Info
Leighton Buzzard Petrol Prices: Cheapest Unleaded and Diesel Today
Cheapest petrol in Leighton Buzzard today: unleaded from 152.9p and diesel from 185.9p a litre, across 7 forecourts within 8 miles. Updated every morning...
Weather
Leighton Buzzard Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Leighton Buzzard weather today: light drizzle, 10°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 30% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph.
Children
Central Bedfordshire 9th of 153 for children, but care lags
Central Bedfordshire is joint ninth of 153 areas in the Children's Commissioner's Childhood Lottery. Its children in care fare worst in the region on four measures.
Jobs
Central Bedfordshire claimants hit 5,150, a four-year high
5,150 people in Central Bedfordshire claimed unemployment benefits in September, the most since November 2021. Under-25 claims rose 12% in a year.
Leighton Buzzard News brings you the latest news from Leighton Buzzard, Linslade and the rest of Central Bedfordshire: council decisions, planning, roads, schools, police and what’s on, with this week’s stories below. We report from council papers, planning registers, Land Registry data and the operators’ own timetables and price lists, and we link to the document every time, so you can check us.
Leighton Buzzard news this week
The main stories in the week to Saturday 31 October 2026:
- Budget: about 40,000 homes in Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard and Houghton Regis will get the £100 Household Energy Payment from January 2027, according to MP Alex Mayer. It goes to homes in council tax bands A to D.
- Council Tax Support: Central Bedfordshire Council proposes to keep this year’s cut for 2027/28, so 10,284 working-age households would again pay at least a quarter of their bill. Scrutiny councillors look at it on Tuesday 3 November.
- Fire service: Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue’s draft five-year plan is open for comment until 15 January. It proposes no change at the Lake Street station, whose co-responder crew went to 771 medical emergencies between September 2020 and July 2026.
- TV: mobile mast upgrades in the town may disrupt Freeview and other aerial TV; Restore TV posts a free filter on 0808 13 13 800.
- Figures: the average Central Bedfordshire home was £355,263 in August, up just 0.1% in a year, and 5,150 people claimed unemployment benefits in September, the most in almost five years.
Breaking news in Leighton Buzzard today
New stories go to the top of this page as soon as they are published, and the News section keeps every story in date order. If something is happening in Leighton Buzzard or Linslade today that we have not covered, send us your news: we check it before anything goes up. The free weekly newsletter puts the week’s Leighton Buzzard news in one email.
Leighton Buzzard: what is booked in
The dates already fixed for November, each on a page that carries the source:
- Saturday 7 November: there is no town bonfire this year; the nearest display is Mead Open Farm at Billington, fireworks at 6.30pm.
- Sunday 8 November: Remembrance Sunday, parade from Lake Street to Church Square, Act of Commemoration at 10.55am.
- Monday 9 to Tuesday 24 November: the bypass is closed between Wing Road and Billington Road; details on our roadworks page.
- Friday 27 November: the Christmas lights switch-on at 7pm, with fireworks after and the festive market from 4pm to 8pm.
What we cover
Central Bedfordshire has its headquarters at Chicksands, a former RAF site in open countryside rather than in any of its towns. That tells you most of what you need to know about the shape of this council: it covers Leighton Buzzard and Linslade in the west, Dunstable and Houghton Regis in the south, Ampthill, Flitwick and Shefford in the middle, and Biggleswade, Sandy and Potton out east on the A1, and none of them is the centre of it.
We cover the lot, because they all get their planning decisions, bin rounds, car parks and council tax bands from the same authority. There is no paywall, no registration and no comment section.
Where to look
- House prices: the middle Leighton Buzzard sale was £345,000 over the year to June 2026, £10,000 below the Central Bedfordshire median, with figures for every postcode in the district.
- Trains to London: 30 minutes to Euston on the fast service, 55 on the stopper, and £5,884 a year for a season ticket.
- Roadworks and travel: what is closed this month, what the town car parks charge, and which A-road to take.
- Things to do: six that cost nothing, narrow gauge steam from £9, and every price checked against the venue.
- Planning: the council can show only 3.93 years of housing land against a statutory five, and the consultation on the 452 submitted sites closed on 17 August. The council now assesses which of them go forward, including the 149 hectares put forward west of Linslade.
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