The truth is out there.

 A mystery solved.
Over the last five years the Bedford campus had suffered sporadic, mysterious unexplained losses of equipment.
It was most baffling, nobody could provide a tangible answer as to what  was causing this.
Now we have the answer! Professor John Lydon (P.I.L, OBE) of the British space institute tells us about it,
"Yes, it was an "Astral Stargate". This is a type of temporal disturbance that is caused by an anomaly in the fabric of space. Inanimate objects such as university equipment are literally sucked into another dimension by it. It maybe that there is an alternate Bedfordshire university out there that is benefiting  from an excess of equipment! It now appears that this anomaly has moved to Borras Norway, where they are suffering similar problems. We find no indication that it would return to the Bedford campus area."

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