Luton

Luton
Luton; Borough of Luton
	Toun, Burgh & Unitar authority
	Luton Toun Haw
	Luton shown athin Bedfordshire
	Coordinates: 51°54′0″N 0°26′0″W / 51.95000°N 0.43333°WCoordinates: 51°54′0″N 0°26′0″W / 51.95000°N 0.43333°W
Kintra	Unitit Kinrick
Constituent aurie	Ingland
Region	East o Ingland
Ceremonial coonty	Bedfordshire
Burgh	Luton
Govrenment
• Teep	Burgh
• Govrenin body	Luton Borough Council
• Executive:	Labour
• Mayor	Sydney Knight
• MPs	Kelvin Hopkins (L); Gavin Shuker (L)
Area
• Total	43.35 km2 (16.74 sq mi)
Population
• Total	225,262
• Density	4696/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 zone	GMT
• Summer (DST)	Breetish Simmer Time
Postcode Aurie	LU
Area code(s)	(01582)
ONS code	00KA
Demonym	Lutonians
Website	www.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

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

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

References

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

[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.

[pop2009-3] 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.

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