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The Bedford Club remembrance dinner RBL cheque presentation 2025

Bedford Club remembrance dinner raises £1,000 for local Poppy Appeal

A remembrance dinner at The Bedford Club has raised £1,000 for the Bedford and Kempston Poppy Appeal, with volunteers praised and plans already under way for next year’s fundraising events...
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One of many. Squadron Leader Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, the CO of the No. 315 Polish Fighter Squadron, standing by his new North American Mustang Mark III, FB387 'PK-G, at Brenzett, Kent. He was shot down and killed on 18 August 1944, after destroying three Focke Wulf Fw 190s to bring his score to 16 and a half victories. Image: Polish Official Photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Bedford Ian writes…

7 November 2025: Universal sacrifice, Normal for Norfolk and Vinyl values. Bedford Ian has been looking at recent goings on across Bedford Borough and tells us what he thinks of it all...
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A piper from the Bedford Pipe Band leads RBL standard bearers and former service men and women onto Harpur Square ahead of the commemorative raising of a VE Day 80 flag. Image: Bedford Borough Council

VE Day 80 remembered in Bedford with tributes to the bravery and sacrifice we “must keep remembering”

Bedford Borough marked the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) this morning (Thursday) with a commemorative flag-raising ceremony in Harpur Square...
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Flag bearers of the Bedford & District Branch of the Royal British Legion. Image: Bedford Borough Council

Bedford prepares to remember the fallen with events across the Borough

A number of events will take place this weekend and early next week to mark Armistice Day and Remembrance Day across Bedford Borough. While there will be localised events in villages...
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Roy Easton Funeral procession at Norse Road Cemetery. Image: Stanley's Photos

Heartwarming turn out at funeral of Roy Easton as people from across the country pay their respects

Roy Easton, RAF veteran and former shop worker at Boots and Goldings in Bedford Town Centre, who died alone in May has had a heartwarming turnout for his funeral as people from all...
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Cemetery death will funeral generic. Image: vlanka/Pixabay

Appeal to help remember RAF veteran and “lovely, helpful” Goldings shop worker who died alone

A social media campaign has asked for local people who may have known Roy Easton, an RAF veteran and former shop worker at Goldings on Bedford High Street, to give him a fitting...
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