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Transport Secretary The Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP speaks to Parliament

Transport secretary addresses Parliament about fatal train crash

Mohammad Yasin MP

MP meets with Queen's Park residents facing "eye-watering" service charges

NFU Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Chair Freya Morgan.

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Surbhi, 15, represented Central Bedfordshire in the annual UK Youth Parliament debate

Central Bedfordshire teenager speaks about sustainability at House of Commons

Vitamin B12 Awareness Day is on 23 September

Ad Feature 1 in 3 Brits may be at risk of B12 deficiency – but most have no idea

Blake Stephenson is keen to provide a boost our local pubs

Cheers! MP launches Best Pub In Mid Bedfordshire competition

The First News poetry competition for young writers will be judged by Hollywood star Will Poulter

Poetry competition launched for young writers - judged by Will Poulter

Blake Stephenson MP proposing his Bill in the House of Commons

Opinion: Mid Beds MP Blake Stephenson’s Bill to tackle flooding passes first Hou...

Blake Stephenson quizzing Health Secretary Wes Streeting in the House of Commons

Health Secretary Wes Streeting confuses his own policy in response to local MP B...

Blake quizzing the Justice Secretary on shoplifting

Mid Bedfordshire MP Blake Stephenson calls for action to end ‘scourge’ of prolif...

Bedford mayor, Tom Wootton

Bedford council introduces food waste collection service for businesses
Bedford Borough Council has unveiled a new service to help businesses separate food waste from general waste.
Clare Turner

File photo of a pothole.

Row over highways funding at Central Bedfordshire Council

Mohammad Yasin MP for Bedford and Kempston

Ambulance call centre gets reprieve after months of speculation over its future

Blake Stephenson MP speaking in the House of Commons

Mid Bedfordshire MP Blake Stephenson launches Thameslink survey after securing p...

Universal Studios has bought land at Kempston Hardwick (Picture: Pixabay)

Mid Beds MP 'disappointed' as Chancellor fails to mention theme park plans

Mohammad Yasin MP for Bedford and Kempston

"We must keep the staff in Bedford who have helped saved countless lives"

If passed the bill means that terminally ill adults in England and Wales who have six months to live will legally have the choice to end their life.

Assisted dying bill UK: What is the proposed law?

Mid Bedfordshire MP Blake Stephenson speaking about the Family Farm Tax during a House of Commons debate

Blake Stephenson MP calls on Government to reverse plans for a Family Farm Tax

Blake Stephenson MP speaking in the House of Commons

Blake Stephenson MP launches survey to listen to Mid Bedfordshire's residents vi...

Child plays with building blocks.

Watch: Measures for families announced in Rachel Reeves’ budget

Flooding photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

Local MP calls for better drains maintenance in debate on Bedfordshire flooding

Rachel Timms, Headteacher: Grange Academy, with Mohammad Yasin MP, for Bedford and Kempston

Bedford MP visits Grange Academy to launch Pupil Parliament

NHS figures show £163,300 was spent on NHS Stop Smoking Services in Bedford in 2023

NHS spent more than £150k helping smokers quit in Bedford

Some of the transfers to two tier education have stalled - Photo Ben Birchall

MP demands more support for move to two tier education system

Lights go out in the House of Lords.

Watch: House of Lords lights go out during minister’s speech

A woman in mid Bedfordshire was made to stay on a phone call for over three hours for a PIP assessment (Picture: Pixabay)

Bowel cancer survivor forced to soil herself during three-hour PIP assessment

The BBC licence fee is set to increase in line with inflation.

BBC licence fee set to increase in 2024 - here's what you need to know

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will give the autumn statement today - watch it live
Tom Morton

Alistair Strathern in the Commons

New Mid Bedfordshire MP makes maiden speech in the Commons

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Breaking Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

Tory MP Peter Bone. Credit: PA

Breaking Tory MP 'should be suspended over bullying and sexual misconduct'

Sign up for the borough's youth parliament

Join Central Bedfordshire’s Youth Parliament to give young people a voice

Nadine Dorries (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Earliest date for by-election revealed after Nadine Dories finally quits

Nadine Dorries

Town council's angry letter to Nadine Dorries tells her to quit "immediately"

Keir Mather

Who is Keir Mather? The new Labour MP for Selby and Ainsty

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP faces eight week suspension over groping claims - what did he do?

Breaking Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP to face eight-week suspension

Clive Myrie. Picture: PA/Ian West.

Breaking Clive Myrie pulled from BBC News at Ten after Boris Johnson lying joke

Majority of MPs approve Privileges Committee Boris Johnson Partygate report

Breaking Boris Johnson suffers resounding defeat over ‘Partygate’ report

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Breaking MPs find Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ Commons multiple times

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Which Tory MPs have resigned triggering a by-election?

Nigel Adams, MP for Selby and Ainsty pictured outside Selby Abbey.

Breaking Another Tory MP resigns and triggers a third by-election

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Will Boris Johnson stand as an MP in a different seat?

Breaking Green Party’s only MP to stand down at next election

Watch the moment Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ‘snaps’ at Kemi Badenoch as pair lock horns in House of Commons

Breaking Watch the moment House of Commons Speaker ‘snaps’ at major Tory MP

Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the Parliament’s Standard Watchdog after allegedly failing to declare an interest

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Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the Parliament’s Standard Watchdog after allegedly failing to declare an interest
Chelsie Sewell

Margaret Ferrier MP was given a 270-hour community payback order for breaking lockdown rules by travelling on a train despite testing positive for Covid

Breaking Disgraced MP Margaret Ferrier facing 30 day suspension

Changes to the state pension age are common

Breaking Date of UK state pension age rise will not be brought forward

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media at Hillsborough Castle after his meetings with Stormont leaders over Brexit and the Windsor Framework.

Breaking MI5 raises terror threat level in Northern Ireland to ‘severe’

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Breaking TikTok to be blocked from ‘all parliamentary devices’

Bag used by House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd to go on auction

Smoking is now at least 15% more expensive following Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023 - Credit: Adobe

Breaking Bad news for smokers: Cigarettes now cost more than ever

Martin Lewis reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s budget after Chancellor name checks him and ‘calls speaker old’

Breaking Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in central London on March 15, 2023, to present the government’s annual budget to Parliament. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking Budget 2023: Living standards to fall by 6% - OBR

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt addressed the House of Commons with his Spring Budget 2023 on Wednesday - Credit: Getty Images

Breaking Key announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023

The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) will remain at £2,500 for an additional three months.

Breaking Budget 2023: Energy Price Guarantee to be extended to June

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