Luton

Climate activists target private jet airports and demand ban at Cop27

Protesters gather at Farnborough and Luton as part of global action, also calling for tax on frequent fliers

Damien Gayle Environment correspondent

10, Nov, 2022 @4:52 PM

Michael Asser obituary

Other lives: Librarian and arts administrator who translated Greek biblical texts into English

Liz Asser

28, Oct, 2022 @4:20 PM

‘I’ll do for Bury Park what Richard Curtis did for Notting Hill!’: a tour of Luton’s Muslim district

Leading a group of visitors around the neighbourhood I grew up in seemed a good chance for me to build trust between communities. But gut-wrenching memories kept coming back

Sarfraz Manzoor

15, Sep, 2022 @1:00 PM

‘The skies are clogged with traffic, I’ve never seen it so busy’: 48 hours at Luton Airport

The travel industry was hit hard by Covid and Brexit and there were long delays this summer. Michael Segalov meets the airport staff who are still desperately attempting to waft us to paradise

Michael Segalov

24, Jul, 2022 @6:00 AM

Warnings on water use, transport and risks to health as UK heads for 41C

Airport runways close and 999 calls surge while Boris Johnson is accused of ‘checking out’ by attending airshow but not Cobra meeting

Robert Booth, Gwyn Topham, Andrew Gregory and Peter Walker

19, Jul, 2022 @2:53 AM

Man falls from burning block of flats in Luton

Five officers try to get inside property after they arrive to look for suspected arsonist

Nadeem Badshah

22, Apr, 2022 @6:24 PM

Jamal Edwards obituary

Music and media entrepreneur who helped launch the careers of Ed Sheeran, Jessie J and Emeli Sandé

Peter Mason

21, Feb, 2022 @4:53 PM

Boxer Kay Prosper: ‘I cried the day I got my British passport’

Kay Prosper, fighting for the European super-lightweight title, reflects on how boxing has helped to turn his life around

Nick Ames

22, Apr, 2021 @6:00 PM

Widower says death of nurse from Covid the 'hardest pain to bear'

Coroner calls for public inquiry into handling of pandemic at end of Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong inquest

Tobi Thomas

30, Mar, 2021 @2:30 PM

Pregnant nurse who died of Covid 'unhappy' to be sent home from A&E

Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong did not need oxygen and so was discharged, doctor tells inquest

Sarah Marsh

23, Mar, 2021 @6:18 PM

Police restraint contributed to Leon Briggs death, jury finds

Inquest jurors identify police and ambulance failings before 39-year-old’s death in Luton in 2013

Diane Taylor

12, Mar, 2021 @4:19 PM

Family of Leon Briggs will never get over his death, inquest hears

Briggs, 39, died after being restrained by police in Luton in 2013