http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/ John Ball picks up on the lighter, peculiar and weird side of Bedfordshire life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:00 GMT Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:32:56 GMT Portal Constructor 3 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Saturday-January-28-03022012.htm While the problems caused by the PIP breast implants is not a laughing matter, I couldnt help but be amused that the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons is also known as BAAPS you http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00213000/00213974.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Saturday-January-28-03022012.htm Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-January-23-27012012.htm Former bedfordshire on Sunday snapper Tony Margiocchi has been off work for some time now after a run-in with a car carrying Prince Harry. http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00212000/00212348.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-January-23-27012012.htm Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-January-16-20012012.htm A friend points me to the front page of our rival local paper, which I confess I do not normally read. It is all about the price of petrol in Bedford... http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00210000/00210779.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-January-16-20012012.htm Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Tuesday-January-3-06012012.htm Tuesday, january 3 A STRANGE noise comes from group editor Steve Lowe this afternoon while hes going through invoices. http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00207000/00207753.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Tuesday-January-3-06012012.htm Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Saturday-December-17-22122011.htm Im doing a bit of last minute Christmas shopping today (no, like most men I dont leave it until Christmas Eve). http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00205000/00205268.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Saturday-December-17-22122011.htm Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-December-12-16122011.htm Were used to having a lot of colourful characters coming into our offices with strange requests but today was a first. A smartlydressed woman tells our receptionist that shes here for the old http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00204000/00204339.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-December-12-16122011.htm Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-December-5-10122011.htm Oh dear, word reaches us that a school in Bedford borough has come unstuck at the hands of an Ofsted report. http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00202000/00202974.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-December-5-10122011.htm Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-November-28-03122011.htm I come out of Bedfordshire on Sunday to see a backlog of traffic and motorists honking their horns. An accident? Roadworks? Nope, it was a woman, sat at the wheel of her car, casually reading a http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-November-28-03122011.htm Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-November-21-25112011.htm Monday, November 21 ANOTHER week and another press officer failure. Last week it was the Chicheley Hall event embargoed two days after the exhibition took place for security reasons. This week its http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00183000/00183603.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Monday-November-21-25112011.htm Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Saturday-November-12-18112011.htm ITS the morning after the night before, and Bedford Blues 125th dinner celebration was a night to remember, well, for some, in different ways. http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client Images/Client00004/00170000/00170755.jpg http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Blogs/John-Balls-Diary/Saturday-November-12-18112011.htm Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:30:00 GMT