DCSIMG
For you to enjoy all the features of this website Bedford Today requires permission to use cookies.
Find Out More
  • What is a Cookie?

  • What is a Flash Cookie?

  • Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?

  • About our Cookies

  • Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.

  • This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.

  • Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

    However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.

  • The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:

    • Revenue Science

      A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

    • Google Ads

      Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

    • Webtrends / Google Analytics

      This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.

    • Dart for Publishers

      This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.

    • ComScore

      ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

    • Local Targeting

      Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.

    • Grapeshot

      We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.

    • Subscriptions Online

      Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.

    • Add This

      Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.

    • 3rd Party Cookies

      We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Sponsored by Michael R Peters
Singer set to make it big with USA deal

b10-1619 Classical singer Elaine Huckle has been named a Classic FM champion after her CD which is therapeutic to people with medical conditions was released to raise money for charity.

b10-1619 Classical singer Elaine Huckle has been named a Classic FM champion after her CD which is therapeutic to people with medical conditions was released to raise money for charity.

A CLASSICAL singer is set to have her music played in America after signing a deal with one of the largest independent record labels in the world.

Elaine Huckle of Church End, Kempston, has just signed a deal with American recording company Parma Recording, owned by massive label Naxos, which will release an album of her songs called The Voice Of Elaine Huckle.

Her music is also set to be used on television programmes and films in the States.

She said: “I’m really excited. I got an email from them and I was about to just delete it until my friend told me to check out their website, and I realised how big the label was.

“At first I was really shocked that they wanted to work with me and I kept thinking it wasn’t serious, but now that I’ve signed the deal I’m starting to realise that it is definitely happening.”

Elaine, who suffered with breast cancer 13 years ago, has previously been named as a Classic FM hero after she raised money for charity with the release of her album.

She has been singing since she was seven years old, but says her career has only just started to take off in the last couple of years. She has also sung at various national and international concerts.

Elaine added: “It’s a very exciting time for me at the minute. I’ve had a lot of hard times with the cancer and I also suffered from undiagnosed coeliac disease for a good number of years, which left me with not very much energy.

“I feel like it’s only later in life that I’ve actually had my health on my side and I feel like my life is only just beginning.

“There is talk of me going out to America, but that’s still in discussions. Things to seem to be happening very fast and all this is going to be starting in the next couple of week, which is really exciting.”


loading...
Find It

"Business owner? - Claim your business and Advertise with us"

In association with qype logo

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Property

Search for a house

Weather for Bedford

Tuesday 29 May 2012

5 day forecast

Today

Cloudy

Cloudy

Temperature: 12 C to 19 C

Wind Speed: 9 mph

Wind direction: North east

Tomorrow

Light showers

Light showers

Temperature: 12 C to 21 C

Wind Speed: 9 mph

Wind direction: South west

Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.

Bedford Today provides news, events and sport features from the Bedford area. For the best up to date information relating to Bedford and the surrounding areas visit us at Bedford Today regularly or bookmark this page.