Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, December 13th, 1917.

There are now prospects of a definite scheme being launched in Luton for the benefit of wounded soldiers. Taking the form of a straw trade school, under the aegis of the Chamber of Commerce, it promises well, as outlined by Mr P. Currant at the meeting of the Chamber at the Free Library on Friday night.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: December 8th, 1917.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, December 6th, 1917.

Biscot Camp effectively ceased to be a military base from Sunday, November 30th, 1919. The previous day's Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph reported:

The handful of artillerymen who still remain at Biscot Camp are leaving tomorrow for Shorncliffe, Kent, and, with the exception of a small rear party, the camp will be empty.

• Food queue in Wellington Street during World War One.

If the Luton Food Committee require any incentive to pursue their recent demand for compulsory rationing, a walk through Luton today would amply supply it. Throughout the week there had been queues in the principal streets, and whole families have been food hunting from breakfast time to shop closing time.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: December 1st, 1917.

The following letter from straw hat manufacturer Thomas Foster, of 12 Cromwell Road, explaining why be believed food rationing should be introduced, was published in The Luton News on November 29th, 1917:

We are all wondering when this miserable scramble for food will cease. In some towns food is very plentiful, at others there is great scarcity. It is quite certain that rationing is the only means of securing a fair distribution of food.

Last night [November 28th, 1917] a very important point arose at the Luton Borough Tribunal as to whether a man of high category should be transferred from the Special Constabulary to the Volunteers.

The case was that of Percival A. Edwards, 36, B1, married, 136 Old Bedford Road, clerk and warehouseman for Boutwood & Lyon, Guildford Street. He appeared in special constable's uniform at 7.15pm, and said he had been on duty at 7pm.

The Town Clerk [Mr William Smith]: "You are under two orders tonight."

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, November 29th, 1917.

Our photographer secured the above picture at Luton's latest infant welfare centre, at Mount Tabor Schoolroom, Castle Street, the other day. The Mayor (Councillor Charles Dillingham) is seen holding Luton's largest and finest baby, while Councillor W. J. Primett is trying to make the baby smile for the photographer.

• Wardown Hospital patients and staff.

Of all the organisations which have been tested and tried in the fiery furnace of war, none has emerged from the crucible with a greater reputation than the Voluntary Aid Detachments, which are now to be found throughout the length and breadth of the land.

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Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 24th, 1917.

An interesting account of a long road journey through France, from Rouen to a Mediterranean port, is given in a letter to the Luton News by Pte A. Spittles, Army Service Corps (M.T.), whose mother lives in Saxon Road, Luton.

After serving nearly two years in Northern France, during which time he travelled a good deal, Pte Spittles is now in quite another part of the country, attached to a Canadian Forestry Corps, whose work is felling and preparing timber for the construction of dug-outs.