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Scout Leaders Tough Job Training 36 Teenagers For WSJ |
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Four Bedfordshire Scout Leaders have volunteered for a nerve-racking trip of a lifetime. They will be looking after the needs of 36 teenage Scouts during a 12-day World Scout Jamboree taking place in the summer of 2011 on the East coast of Sweden. For the fab four it will be a 24/7 event and the training for it starts now.
(31st December 2009)
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"Boom! Boom!" For Top Cub Scout Award Winners |
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Three Cub Scouts from the 16th Someries Scout Group in Luton had their Christmas wish come true when Basil Brush took time off from the pantomime ‘Cinderella’ to present them with their Chief Scout Awards. Basil said, “It’s Boom! Boom! for these Cubs who now have this splendifereous award.”
(28th December 2009)
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Good Turn Girl Scout Starts Teenage Blood Donor Campaign |
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Good turns for Scouts seem to have gone out of fashion since the days when they helped old ladies across roads. And the annual bob-a-job campaign disappeared in the aftermath of child protection legislation. But an Explorer Scout from Luton has revived this tradition with a new brand of good turn. She has become a blood donor at the age of 17 and she’s out to encourage as many as 15,000 other Scouts to join her.
(26th December 2009)
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Towns Oldest Scout Dies Aged 94 |
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Luton’s oldest Scout has died aged 94 after a brave battle against cancer. For 86 of those years, Alec Arthur Brown was a member of the Scout Movement rising from a young Cub Scout in 1923 to become President of Icknield District Scouts seventy years later. He was also the last surviving member of a secret Rover Scout Crew set up in the notorious Changi POW Camp in Singapore during the second world war.
(2nd December 2009)
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MP Alistair Burt Loses His Seat To Beaver Scout |
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To the delight of two dozen youngsters, MP Alistair Burt had a star turn at the Gemini Beaver Scouts Christmas part in Biggleswade when he demonstrated his skill at musical chairs. But he finally lost his seat to the winner a lively Beaver Scout called Georgia. He was slightly better at playing musical statues to the tune of Snowman on his merry way.
(20th December 2009)
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Beaver Scout Leaders Watched Their Flocks By Night |
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Around 25 Beaver Scout Leaders from Biggleswade District gave their flock of 100 youngsters a carol service to remember in the darkness of Henlow Camp Site. On the programme it was to be a winter camp fire but surprise guest the Reverend Richard Winslade from Maulden soon got the festive spirit going.
(19th December 2009)
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Explorer Scout Makes His Promise Down 500ft Cave |
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A Barton Explorer Scout made his Scout promise hundreds of feet below the Mendip Hills in Somerset during a subterranean ceremony to invest him into the Movement. The unusual initiation is all part of the heritage for these teenagers. They have been invested during a trip on the London Eye, while abseiling down a climbing wall and on a surfboard. But Steven McTaggart, 15 decided it would all happen for him down the biggest cave in Somerset lit only by the head lamps of his companions.
(18th December 2009)
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American Scouts Surprise Visit To Peace Light Service |
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American Scouts from RAF Alconbury were surprise guests at the Christmas Peace Light service held at All Saints Church in Luton. They made the 100 mile trip from their base to join a congregation of over 50 at this annual event. They said that it was a special treat to be allowed to join in the celebrations.
(17th Decemberer 2009)
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Digging For A World Record |
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Over 120 Biggleswade Scouts and their leaders have just taken part in a world record attempt to plant one million trees across the UK in one hour. It was a mammoth 60 minutes of co-ordinated activity organised nationally by BBC Breathing Places. In Biggleswade, the volunteers created a small wood of 100 trees in Saxon Drive in just 57 minutes as a legacy for future generations to enjoy.
(7th December 2009)
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A Founder Of Modern Scouting In Luton Dies |
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Alan Pickles, one of the founders of modern Scouting in Luton, has died of a stroke at the age of 76. A Queen’s Scout, Alan spent his formative years in Towcester where he ran a Cub Scout Pack before moving to Luton in 1966 to join the Pathology Lab. at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
(27th November 2009)
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Luton Scouts Connect With The World |
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In a weekend of hectic activity, Luton Scouts connected to Scouts all over the world for the annual Jamboree-on-the-Air. It was their chance to share Scouting experiences with Scouts in many countries who were all taking part in this amateur radio event of the airwaves.
(19th October 2009)
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New Barton Scout & Guide HQ |
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In the outskirts of Barton-le-Clay in Bedfordshire, with stunning views across Sharpenhoe Clappers, a new £¾ million structure is taking shape that will enhance the natural beauty of the area according to the county’s planning department. Is it a retirement pad for a rich city gent? Or perhaps a pop star wants his own version of Gracelands? No, it’s none of these. It’s a Scout and Guide hut for the village’s 250 enthusiastic youngsters. (8th October 2009)
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Bedfordshire Explorer Scouts Up With The Mud Larks |
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When Scouts take their annual summer camp it’s not unusual for them to get their hands dirty. But this year, Brocks Explorer Unit from Maulden decided to take it a step further. Their week-long trip to Cromer in Norfolk ended with eight of the twenty one Scouts getting covered from head to toe in a spectacular mud-fight. Only their eyes were visible. They all left feeling refreshed and smooth thanks to the mud treatment that’s been a tradition in the Unit for seven years. (7th September 2009)
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Caddington Scouts Collect A Mountain Of Bagdes |
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Twenty four Beaver and Cub Scouts from the Caddington Scout Group collected a record 100 challenge and activity badges at their end of term meeting at Four Ends School. Around 90 parents, leaders and friends filled the school hall to see Group Scout Leader Rita Tims and her Beaver Scout Leader Janet Kay make the record breaking presentation. It was the climax of the year for these young Scouts. (17th August 2009)
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Leighton Linslade Centenary Camp |
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One hundred years ago a small group of youngsters from Leighton Buzzard picked up a copy of the Baden-Powell book ‘Scouting for Boys’ and started the first Scout Group in the town based on the open air activities and self sufficiency this Mafeking hero described. Today, and many hundreds of adventures later, the idea of building camp fires, cooking your own meals, and constructing makeshift shelters still attracts young people. There are almost 500 of them from the area who have just completed their centenary camp, a milestone in the long history of the Scout Movement in Leighton Linslade. (14th August 2009)
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Biggleswade Husband & Wife Team Take On Top Jobs |
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A husband and wife team have just taken on two of the top Scouting jobs in Bedfordshire. Ken Brooker, 58 has accepted the post of Assistant County Commissioner for Scouts in the county while his wife Jan, 56 is now the new District Commissioner for Biggleswade.
(27th July 2009)
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Toddington Scout Leader Takes On Top Job For District |
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David Yirrell, 53 has just been appointed to the top job
of District Commissioner for Ampthill and Woburn after spending 18 years
as a leader at the Toddington Scout Group.
(26th July 2009)
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