I am a post graduate research and have started my 1st study which aims to investigate the influence of different gaming genres on visual and mental processes.

Eligibility criteria: Participant should have UK driving license

It's a two-part study. First, you will be completing a gaming experience questionnaire using the QR code or link below. https://aruspsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9mlSNUsbMFXcDt4 .

Depending on your responses, you may qualify for the second part at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Lab (1 hour).

To compensate your travel and appreciate your contribution a £10 pounds voucher will be rewarded to the participants who have qualified and invited to the study in lab.

Whether you're a pro gamer, casual player, or non-gamer, your input is greatly valuable!!

Thank you for your participation in advance!!

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I am trying to get a Credit Card and they want me to get my Passport certified by a notary, solicitor, GP, or anyone certified as such(no postmaster weirdly) So I am trying to find a place to get that done for as cheap as possible. PS:- I want somewhere in Bedford City.

After a while without going to Bedford, I've recently paid a visit. So, I went to have a coffee at Caffe Crema, in Bedford High Street. And surprise!! Working there, some ladies I had never seen before, and no trace of the previous people working there. Does anybody know what happened to the prevous owners/employees? Are they now at some other business? Thanks.

https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/health-and-safety-executive-joins-investigation-into-cleat-hill-explosion/

Are there any streets that go all out for Halloween? Wondered about taking the kids somewhere a little more festive than my village which is run by puritans.

Hi everyone, I am a geography student currently completing a project that examines the effectiveness of regeneration efforts on Bedford High Street and Silver Street. It would be a big help to me if you could spare a few minutes to complete my survey. Thank you

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I am a post graduate research and have started my 1st study which aims to investigate the influence of different gaming genres on visual and mental processes.

Eligibility criteria: Participant should have UK driving license

It's a two-part study. First, you will be completing a gaming experience questionnaire using the QR code or link below. https://aruspsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9mlSNUsbMFXcDt4 .

Depending on your responses, you may qualify for the second part at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Lab (1 hour).

To compensate your travel and appreciate your contribution a £10 pounds voucher will be rewarded to the participants who have qualified and invited to the study in lab.

Whether you're a pro gamer, casual player, or non-gamer, your input is greatly valuable!!

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Thank you for your participation in advance!!

I m52 am looking for any groups of ravers in the Bedfordshire area that I could possibly join? I used to go raving with my girlfriend but we split last year so looking to make some new friends to go raving with. I’m not on fb or insta so trying on here. Thanks in advance

Morning all

Anyone know of anywhere in Bedford (or Beds as a whole) thats has Murphys on tap?

On a side note where does a great pint of Guinness?

Cheers

And so, Cineworld in Bedford bites the dust.

I don’t know why, but this has had a weird effect on me. I’m not really a Bedford resident anymore, having moved far away for university last year with no intention to return full-time, but it’s sad to see my first cinema shuttered alongside other vacant lots in a very unloved part of town.

Aspects for me represents some very nice personal memories - I have vivid recollections of going to the Pizza Hut there on my eleventh and fifteenth birthdays - and many other occasions, in fact. I had a job at the McDonald’s there (jacked it in after a trial shift), I loved Cineworld as a kid, and I was always fascinated by the ever-present but ever-crumbling ZapZone signage; a relic of my siblings’ time rather than my own. It was perhaps a bit of an omen because Aspects has remained completely unloved. Other than the McDonalds which is about as rammed as a McDonalds gets, it seems to me that the whole area has been left to slowly rot as businesses go into administration or don’t see the appeal of sticking locations inside of a fairly anonymous and mostly vacant set of buildings. Odd, considering how close it is to the river and Goldington, but what do we expect from a town that seems to be in such decline?

I went back to Bedford recently to visit family and move the last of my stuff up. I hadn’t been to the actual town centre in two years by that that point and I was shocked to see what had closed down, relocated to smaller venues or otherwise changed in that fairly short span of time. It’s always a bad sign when charity shops or budget outlets like 99p Stores and the like disappear, and Bedford has lost both of those for the most part. I know that COVID put huge strain on many businesses, but I can see why myself, my peers and my siblings all moved out of Bedford because of a sheer lack of things to do.

I may be becoming a bit of a miserable bastard, but it does seem an awful shame that Bedford is slipping further and further into being a quintessential Crap Town.

I will always have fond memories of many shuttered Bedford businesses.

Seeing Bond films on my birthday at Cineworld over a decade ago.

Twiddling my thumbs as I waited for the school day to finish before my dad took me to buy new games from Game (or if I was even younger, GameStation).

Breaks from school to scarf down chips in the Bus Station Cafe (long before the dubious redevelopment of the station) before cashing in Christmas gift Argos vouchers in the Harpur Centre.

Looking for obscure parts in Goldings and feeling uneasy as it became the first ‘old’ business in Bedford that I saw close down.

The surreal moment when every Woolworth’s in the country shut down - an odd moment for a kid, I can tell you. It didn’t seem like supermarkets could disappear.

Debenhams, BHS, the list is endless.

This post is very nostalgia laced, but as I embark on the next journey of life it is quite a sad moment to see my home town change and seemingly go down the pan somewhat. Is every town like this? Or has the bubble of a place that rapidly transitioned into a commuter-first town with skyrocketing rents finally burst?

Who knows.

Long live Cineworld.

https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/breaking-news-flooded-a421-could-be-open-to-traffic-by-wednesday/

Hello Beautiful People

I have some Halloween flashes for you all 😁😁 Those will be available all October at lower price

I am a post graduate research and have started my 1st study which aims to investigate the influence of different gaming genres on visual and mental processes.

Eligibility criteria: Participant should have UK driving license

It's a two-part study. First, you will be completing a gaming experience questionnaire using the QR code or link below. https://aruspsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9mlSNUsbMFXcDt4 .

Depending on your responses, you may qualify for the second part at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Lab (1 hour).

To compensate your travel and appreciate your contribution a £10 pounds voucher will be rewarded to the participants who have qualified and invited to the study in lab.

Whether you're a pro gamer, casual player, or non-gamer, your input is greatly valuable!!

Thank you for your participation in advance!!

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Hello folks. I recently moved to Bedford (great Denham) and it's been great so far. I would like to find other amateur musicians to form a casual rock band for jamming. I can't be very committed to practising because of family responsibilities but I could make it once a week for fun jamming session.

I play the guitar quite a few years but I am not very committed and that can reflect on my playing. 38 yo, been in the UK since 2016 of greek origin (if that matters to anyone)

Do you know where I can connect with other people that enjoy jamming on rock/ classic rock / punk / stoner tunes?

Thank you!

I’m gutted.

https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/tearful-goodbyes-as-bedfords-dinky-donuts-lady-hangs-up-her-apron/

Here in Flitwick most of the main roads are flooded, the A5120 to the motorway is closed, and the A421 has been closed most of the day.

Hi all. I'm looking for nice places to eat in Bedford. So far I've tried the La Rotonda Pizzeria and Amber Combo for sushi. Both pretty good. Any other recommendations in or around would be great, cheers.

Edit: thanks all 👍😘

I really want a carvery but I don’t know where there are some good places to go to. Does anyone have any recommendations? I live in Sandy but only one pub came up when I did a Google search, it was called Kings Arms (I think) there weren’t any recent reviews. Thankyou