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Jail for Bedford robber who targeted elderly and vulnerable women

A woman who suffered a broken thigh bone when an intruder burst into her flat, took 30 minutes to crawl across the floor to reach her phone and call her family for help...

Clapham man jailed for his part in £1m car fraud money laundering

A businessman from Clapham, Bedford has been jailed for helping to launder cash from a £1 million car fraud. Atif Shariff acted as a henchman for master swindler Ravinder Randhawa as he made a fortune...

Bedford drug dealer put away after police find drugs in car

Twice police found David Barnett driving through Bedford with drugs in a vehicle, he is now counting the cost as he faces up to the next sixteen and a half months behind bars. That was the sentence...

Mann sentenced to three-years for burglary and vehicle thefts

After failing six times to break into homes at Wixams in the dead of night, Jamie Mann and an accomplice went to Kempston where they broke into a house while a couple were asleep and...

Four-and-a-half years jail for £12,000 theft from vulnerable man and robbery of blind man

A man who plundered more than £12,000 from the post office account of a vulnerable man with learning difficulties and stole money from a blind man in the street in Bedford has been jailed for four-and-a-half years...

Three years in jail for driver of 85mph Ampthill Road crash after friend paralysed

A man who drove as if he was “possessed by the devil” seriously injured two friends when he crashed, leaving one of them paralysed. Romanian Ion Grosu, 28, was jailed...

Bedford Prison mobile phone smuggler ‘caught by own fishing line’

A man who tried to smuggle mobile phones into Bedford jail was caught when an alert prison officer saw a fishing line dangling over a wall. Abdul Allen, 33, ran off when the police were called but gave up after...

Ashburnham Road man found with groceries – and half a million pounds – in his car

Police officers who stopped Shane Cameron found groceries on the back seat of the car he was driving - and nearly half a million pounds in the boot. Cameron, a court heard today, was a “cash courier” for an organised crime network...

Bungling burglars captured on dashcam compared in court to the Marx Brothers

Bungling burglars who didn’t know they were being filmed by their own getaway car, have been sentenced by a judge who told them he had been sickened watching the footage of them gloating...

Bedford man jailed and banned from mother’s Kempston home

A Bedford man was today (Tuesday) jailed for four months and banned from going to his mother’s home in Kempston for a year. But the length of time Shane Bavister, 32, has spent in custody means he...

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Jail for Bedford robber who targeted elderly and vulnerable women

Clapham man jailed for his part in £1m car fraud money laundering

Bedford drug dealer put away after police find drugs in car

Mann sentenced to three-years for burglary and vehicle thefts

Four-and-a-half years jail for £12,000 theft from vulnerable man and robbery of blind man

Three years in jail for driver of 85mph Ampthill Road crash after friend paralysed

Bedford Prison mobile phone smuggler ‘caught by own fishing line’

Ashburnham Road man found with groceries – and half a million pounds – in his car

Bungling burglars captured on dashcam compared in court to the Marx Brothers

Bedford man jailed and banned from mother’s Kempston home

Ancient woodland in Bedford Borough under pressure from national housing targets

Bedford Blues rising up the table after fourth straight max points win at Blackheath

Second half blitz helps Real Bedford to win over Rushall Olympic

Queens Drive collision leaves elderly driver fighting for life in Bedford

Lest we forget: 2026 Armistice Day and Remembrance Day events in Bedford Borough

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