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Happy new year everyone! If you're looking for some culture to kick off 2013, then make sure you book tickets to see Romeeo & Juliet at Bedford Theatre on Friday 25 January: Icarus Theatre Collective &...
Citizen journalist, Helen Lindop, reveals all about the #citizenbedford workshop and how you can get involved:Don’t be alarmed if you’re stopped in the street by one of Bedford’s newly trained #citizenbedford reporters.These citizen journalists are...
St Cuthbert’s Hall has been at the heart of the Castle Road community for decades. Once a traditional church hall, it is fondly remembered by the many local residents who have used it over the...
www.pledgemusic.com/projects/danninicholls   It’s an exciting time to be Danni Nicholls right now. Not only has she just returned from Tom Robinson’s Immersion Songwriting weekend in Kent (yes – THE Tom Robinson), but she’s just about to head...
On Thursday 11th October, Bedford's Portas Pilot Town Team held a training session at Bedford College's South Bank Arts Centre in conjunction with Media Trust to launch the #citizenbedford project.  Utilising traditional, social and new...
At the Bedford Clanger we want to encourage as many people as possible to become 'citizen journalists' during our Portas Pilot Town journey. We want you to video, photograph, interview, blog, tweet and generally tell...
Friday 26th October - Bedford Esquires They're on the front cover of next week's NME, but if you can't wait til then, check out our preview of the Palma Violets' gig in Bedford at the end of October. ...
The CC Smugglers get chatty with The Clanger: As I tentatively walked past the house buried deep in Bedfordshire, as directed by Richie’s slightly bemused mum, down the gorgeously wild garden towards the ‘source of the...
The Internet for most of us is a part of life and for the majority of us I would imagine it is something to be looked at on a daily or even hourly basis? In the...
When?15th May 2012 Where? Rock City Arts, Castle Lane Bedford From Libyans tweeting live about the Arab Spring, to community groups microblogging about their local area; 'Citizen Journalism' is an increasingly effective way for groups to communicate...
As The Bedford Clanger continues to go from strength to strength the team (who at the core is still only a team of 3!) need some more help. One of the things we would love...
The Bedford Clanger is something I have being tentatively observing from a far but several factors stopped me getting involved earlier. The most significant of these being a condition recently diagnosed as ‘Bedford Apathy’.  I...