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Luton

Borough of Luton
Luton Toun Haw
Luton shown athin Bedfordshire
Luton shown athin Bedfordshire
Coordinates: 51°54′0″N 0°26′0″W / 51.90000°N 0.43333°W / 51.90000; -0.43333Coordinates: 51°54′0″N 0°26′0″W / 51.90000°N 0.43333°W / 51.90000; -0.43333
KintraUnitit Kinrick
Constituent aurieIngland
RegionEast o Ingland
Ceremonial coontyBedfordshire
BurghLuton
Govrenment
 • TeepBurgh
 • Govrenin bodyLuton Borough Council
 • Executive:Labour
 • MayorSydney Knight
 • MPsKelvin Hopkins (L)
Gavin Shuker (L)
Area
 • Total43.35 km2 (16.74 sq mi)
Population
 • Total225,262
 • Density4696/km2 (12,160/sq mi)
 • ethnicity
68.0% White
18.9% S.Asie
7.3% Black
3.1% Mixed Race
2.5% E.Asian and Other
Time zoneGMT
 • Summer (DST)Breetish Simmer Time
Postcode Aurie
Area code(s)(01582)
ONS code00KA
DemonymLutonians
Websitewww.luton.gov.uk

Luton (pronounced /ˈluːtən/ (deprecatit template) or locally /ˈluːʔən/) is a lairge toun an unitar authority o Bedfordshire, Ingland, 30 miles (51 kilometres) north o Lunnon. Luton an its near neighbours, Dunstable an Houghton Regis, form the Luton/Dunstable Urban Aurie wi a population o ower 240,000.[3][4]

Luton is hame tae Blue Square Premier team Luton Town Football Club, whose history includes several spells in the top flicht o the Inglis league as well as a Football League Cup triumph in 1988. They play at Kenilworth Road stadium, which haes been their hame syne 1905.

London Luton Airport, opened in 1938, is ane o Ingland's major airports. Durin the Seicont Warld War it doubled as an RAF base.

The University o Bedfordshire is based in the toun.

The Luton Carnival, held on the late Maey bank holiday, is the lairgest ane-day carnival in Europe.

The toun wis for mony years famous for hat-makin an wis an aa hame tae a lairge Vauxhall Motors factory; the heid office o Vauxhall Motors is still situatit in the towun. Caur production at the plant began in 1905 an continued till 2002, but commercial vehicle production remains.

Twin touns

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Luton participates in internaitional toun twinnin; its pairtners[5] are:

Kintra Place Coonty / Destrict / Region / State Date
Germany Germany Bergisch Gladbach North Rhine-Westphalie 1956
Fraunce Fraunce Bourgoin-Jallieu Rhône-Alpes 1956
Swaden Swaden Eskilstuna Södermanland 1949
Germany Germany Berlin-Spandau Berlin 1959
Germany Germany Wolfsburg Lawer Saxony 1950
Israel Israel Haifa Haifa Destrict 1966

References

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  1. Leadership=Mayor & Cabinet
    Executive=Labour
  2. ONS estimates for total population and density in 2011 and ethnicity in 2009. See the Demografie section abuin for further information.
  3. Luton Borough Council, 2009 Mid year population estimates for Luton Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. Central Bedfordshire Council, Central Bedfordshire’s population. Dunstable 35,120. Houghton Regis 16,670.
  5. "Town twinning". Luton Borough Council. Archived frae the original on 16 Mey 2008. Retrieved 16 Juin 2008.