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Make the most of this eternal sunshine by enjoying the great outdoors
If you’re looking for ideas to keep the kids entertained over May half term, look no further than the city’s beautiful parkland! The Parks Trust, the charity caring for green spaces in Milton Keynes, hosts a heap of activities including free and low-cost ways to get outdoors. On your doorstep are more than 40 different parks with a huge choice of free play areas, leisure routes, trim trails and world-class outdoor artworks. As May marches on and the spring half term arrives, this programme of family fun is one that you just won’t want to miss: Parks & Ride Sun 25..
Local NewsMcFly and The Human League announced as headliners for TK Maxx Presents Bedford Summer Sessions
Live Nation and top event promoters Cuffe & Taylor have announced pop-rock favourites McFly and genre-defining trailblazers The Human League as the latest headliners for TK Maxx Presents Bedford Summer Sessions 2025. These latest headliners join previously announced Supergrass, Simple Minds, Rag’n’Bone Man for a Bedford Park summer takeover throughout July. Tickets are now on sale: smmrsessions.com / ticketmaster.co.uk. On Sunday 13 July, McFly will light up the stage at Bedford Summer Sessions, bringing their high-powered energy to Bedford Park. It’s been 21 years since the band first burst onto the scene with breakout hit “Five Colours In Her Hair,” evolving into one of the UK’s most successful acts. With seven UK number-one singles, including “All About You”..
‘People love being scared…’
Peter James has sold 23 million copies of his crime thrillers worldwide with 21 consecutive UK Sunday Times number ones, as well as chart-toppers in Germany, France, Russia and Canada. He’s also a New York Times best-seller, his murder mysteries translated into 38 languages. Following on from the latest instalment of the hugely successful ITV series Grace, this month, the seventh adaptation of one of Peter’s thrillers, Picture You Dead, will visit Milton Keynes Theatre. Back home in Brighton, DSI Grace investigates a cold case that leads him to the secretive world of fine art, but beneath the respectable veneer..