Politics

Bedford Mayor Dave Hodgson tucked into a local delicacy known as Chocolate Toothpaste to celebrate Bedfordshire Day last week.

The lifts at Bedford station are back in use, thanks to improvements carried out by Network Rail.

A sickening pre-Christmas video selling trophy hunters the chance to shoot the famous stags at Woburn has sparked calls for a Parliamentary inquiry.

Mayor Dave Hodgson has been slammed for overseeing a ‘full blown recruitment crisis’ set to cost taxpayers £297,000.

Mohammad Yasin MP has issued a stinging rebuke to an under-fire schools trust.

Wixams Rail Station is back on track, after council bosses put together a new deal to replace the missing government funding.

A number of pedestrians have been injured after an incident outside the Houses of Parliament, police have confirmed.

Muslim women are forced to wear niqab headscarves to “hide their bruises” according to Mid Beds MP Nadine Dorries.

Health bosses will hold a public meeting on plans for a major shake-up of services next week.

Residents of Bedford Citizens Housing Association have been enjoying some summer fun.

A man has been jailed for four years after he held a toy gun covered in black tape to a taxi driver’s head and demanded money.

A possible health centre could be opened in Kempston as part of new plans being developed for the borough.

Putnoe Walk-In Centre may close after all, after health bosses announced a new consultation which has been branded both a “u-turn” and a “disgrace”.

A new partnership has been launched between Beds Police and HMP Bedford to clamp down on the smuggling of drugs, phones and other illegal items into the prison.

Bedford and Kempston MP Mohammad Yasin has launched a local campaign to encourage schools and the borough council to get tough on plastic in support for a proposed law to reduce plastic.

A noisy raceway appears to have dealt a hammer blow to Bedford’s Local Plan - because the document will no longer be ‘sound’.