A glider pilot has died in a crash during take-off. The London Gliding Club, based at Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire, said there was a "serious accident" at about 12:30 BST on Wednesday.

In 1947 they acquired their own transport at the lime works. As a boy I used to go up onto the Dunstable Downs to watch the gliders. Before the war we used to help launch them with an elastic rope.

Dunstable Downs in Bedfordshire is the highest point in the East of England and offers views of rolling chalk grasslands Car parks at a National Trust site are being locked from early evening due ...

The London Gliding Club, based at Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire, said there was a "serious accident" at about 12:30 BST on Wednesday. Bedfordshire Police said a man in his 40s was pronounced dead ...