Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 30th, 1918.

• The Peace Day riot picture that evoked memories 42 years later.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, March 28th, 1918.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 23rd, 1918.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, March 21st, 1918.

Many Lutonians were delighted at the weekend to see Lieut-Col Edgar Brighten, C.M.G., D.S.O., one of the town's most prominent heroes of the war.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 16th, 1918.

Sgt Frederick William Cleaver (pictured), of 47 May Street, Luton, is a prisoner of war in Turkey, and he writes to us from Belemedik, Bozanti, Turkey, as follows:

What is known in trade union circles as a "Kilkenny strike" was adopted by the employees of one of the large local works on Thursday morning as a means of bringing to a head a grievance under which they considered they were labouring. A "Kilkenny strike," it may be explained, is where the workers remain at their places in the factory but do no work, and naturally such a situation could be nothing more than a tentative measure, designed to await developments.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, March 14th, 1918.

Bedford was very much alive on Sunday when nearly 5,000 Volunteers paraded in the capacious grounds of the Grammar School for inspection by Field Marshal Viscount French, G.O.C., the Home Forces. The assembly comprised the 1st and 2nd Beds V.R., 1st and 2nd Northants V.R., 1st Hunts V.R. and the 2nd Herts V.R.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 9th, 1918.

On Wednesday evening gratifying progress in connection with the scheme for the training of discharged disabled men in the straw trade was reported at a meeting of the committee of management of the scheme at Mr Keens' office.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, March 7th, 1918.

The number of Luton lads who have risen from the ranks grows weekly, and one of the latest to thus do credit to Luton is Sec-Lieut Arthur Pollard, son of Mr and Mrs Pollard, of 44 Jubilee Street, Luton.

Members of the Luton Town Council indulged on Tuesday evening [March 5th, 1918] in the excitement of a little bit of electioneering in connection with the appointment of three new members of the War Pensions Committee. Two of the new members had to be discharged men who have been disabled as the result of service with either the military or naval forces in the present war. Both local organisations of discharged men sent in two nominations.

[The Luton Reporter: Tuesday, March 5th, 1918]

Yesterday there was an important conference at Bedford of Food Committee executive officers and wholesalers of the county concerning the Government's new margarine distribution scheme which is due to come into force next week.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 2nd, 1918.

The Luton War Savings Committee will try hard to get a tank to Luton and have a 'boom week' in the early part of July as the present time is not the most favourable from the straw trade point of view for a businessman's appeal.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, February 28th, 1918.

At Luton Town Hall on Monday there was a large gathering of ladies to protest against the Matrimonial Causes Bill offering easy divorce. After opening the meeting with prayer, the Chairman (Canon Morgan Smith) said the first thing which impressed him in regard to the Bill was the little it seemed to convey.

Lady Wernher, owner of the Luton Hoo estate, has taken practical steps to answer a call to landowners to convert grazing land to tillage.

The picture shows an area of 81 acres being ploughed in the Park itself, which is in addition to the acreage which is being ploughed on the estate at the request of the County Committee.