Luton Borough Council

Clockwise from top left: Bedford Borough Council, Luton Town Hall, Milton Keynes Council and Central Bedfordshire Council

Councils urged to work together as devolution deadline looms

Bedfordshire councils are starting work on a new Bedfordshire Minerals and Waste Plan.

Residents to help shape new plan for Bedfordshire’s building materials and waste

Clockwise from top L: Luton town hall, Central Bedfordshire Council, Borough Hall in Bedford, Milton Keynes Council

Central Bedfordshire Council opts for further talks on devolution deal

Firefighters tackle a crop fire.

Bedfordshire ‘at very high risk of wildfire’ as county officially in drought

File photo of a pothole

Council must prove it's doing more to fix potholes under tough new guidance

Central Bedfordshire Council has been offered new free school funding boost

'Black hole' in Central Beds Council's budget as it faces new decision day

File photo of a baby in a maternity ward. (Photo by DIDIER PALLAGES/AFP via Getty Images)

68 new midwives to join hospitals trust - but recruitment could take 2 years

A landowner fears clean-up costs of £500k will bankrupt him after a whopping 1,200 tons of illegal waste was dumped on his site.

Landowner fears clean-up cost of dumped Bedfordshire waste will bankrupt him

Central Bedfordshire Council, Luton Borough Council and Bedford Borough Council

Devolution possibility must not delay elections says council leader

File photo of a water vole (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Green light for bold strategy to restore nature and biodiversity in Bedfordshire

Clockwise from top left: Central Bedfordshire Council, Luton Borough Council, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson at a family hub in Bedford, Bedford Borough Council

Councils respond to scrapping of two child benefit cap
Legislation to abolish the two-child limit on benefits has been introduced to Parliament, with the government saying the move will lift thousands of children in Bedfordshire out of poverty and form a central part of its wider child poverty strategy.
John Guinn

Health authority staff within the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board are being offered voluntary redundancy as the first stage towards a 50 per cent staffing reduction

Beds, Luton and Milton Keynes health staff to be offered voluntary redundancy

Bedford Hospital and Luton & Dunstable Hospital (Tracey Goodacre/Google)

No place for racism and discrimination says Bedfordshire hospitals trust

Stethoscope on laptop keyboard in doctor surgery with blood pressure monitor

Around half of Bedfordshire care board jobs to be slashed under merger plans

Take part in a Local Nature Recovery Strategy Consultation led by Central Beds Council

Have your say and help shape the future of nature in Bedfordshire

Bedford Borough Council's result Image: Climate Emergency UK

Bedford council tops county scoreboard for climate change action

Luton Apprenticeship Awards

Family business celebrates apprenticeship award win

Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Bedford Borough council offices

Bedfordshire councils split over devolution plan

Children wave their hands in a classroom (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images).

Today is parents' last chance to apply for school places in Bedfordshire

Emergency flashing lights are seen on an ambulance (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

New site will be needed for ambulance operations centre - if it avoids closure

East of England Ambulance Service call centre in Bedford. Picture: Google Maps

Ambulance trust's emergency operations centre "not up to modern standards"

East of England Ambulance Service call centre in Bedford. Picture: Google Maps

Council 'dumbfounded' by plan to close ambulance 999 call centre in Bedford

Emergency services news.

Ambulance service in talks to use handover limit for patients coming to hospital

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

Funding a priority as consultation set to start on relocation of cancer services

Road closed sign. Photo from David Davies PA Images

Central Bedfordshire Council warns people to be aware of road closures

Bedfordshire's new PCC John Tizard (r) and the chief constable Trevor Rodenhurst (l) Image: Bedfordshire Police

Accountability and transparency are key says new police and crime commissioner

Borough Hall in Bedford.

Climate scorecards show council is 'below average' in work to achieve net zero

Bedford Borough Hall and Luton Town Hall

Council in talks with Luton authority in bid to minimise Bedford evictions
Luton Borough Council has agreement to take over 138 homes in Bedford borough
John Guinn

Councillor Henry Vann Bedford Borough Council Liberal Democrat Group leader

Luton Council’s housing agreement is better news for some Bedford residents

Bedford Borough Hall and Luton Town Hall

Claim Bedford families would be evicted to home Luton homeless 'misleading'

Markus Keaney

Communist party candidate says Bedford needs council housing programme

File photo dated 03/02/22 of an online energy bill. Soaring energy bills sent UK inflation to its highest level for 41 years in October as households felt the brunt of the cost of living crisis, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that inflation jumped to a higher-than-expected 11.1% in October - the highest rate since October 1981 and up from 10.1% in September - as gas and electricity costs rocketed, despite Government support limiting the rise in bills. Issue date: Wednesday November 16, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story ECONOMY Inflation. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire

Bedford and Luton councils working to help residents reduce energy costs

Mark Rutherford School

Update on £1.1m stolen from Luton council that was destined for a Bedford school

Mark Rutherford School

Final report over missing £1m destined for a Bedford school due 'soon'

Father and child

Service helping parents overcome substance misuse should be permanent says judge

Borough Hall Bedford

Bedford council's tax increase 6th highest of unitary authorities in England

Bedford Borough Council

57% score for Bedford in the Council Climate Plan Scorecards

Central Beds Council and Luton Council don't see eye to eye over housing

Possible legal challenge lurking over Central Bedfordshire Council Local Plan ho...

Bedford Borough Council agreed to call on the Bedfordshire Pension Fund to disinvest its holdings in fossil fuels

Bedford council agrees to end fossil fuel investments for pension funds

Mark Rutherford School

Answers over a Bedford school's missing £1.2 funding are no closer

Mark Rutherford School

Lengthy wait for explanation over missing £1.2million for school criticised

Mark Rutherford School in Bedford

Update demanded over missing £1.1m funding for a Bedford school

Laura Church

New chief exec for Bedford Borough Council

Dell Farm in Dunstable has been sold "well in excess" of its £1million guide price

Council sells Dell Farm in Dunstable 'well in excess of £1m guide price'

North East Beds MP Richard Fuller has criticised the government's 35m finance arrangement for Luton Borough Council

Bedfordshire MP slams government's £35m support for Luton Borough Council
The MP for North East Bedfordshire has slammed £35m government financial support to Luton Borough Council.
Stewart Carr

RAF Henlow is the site of Bedfordshire's temporary morgue

Temporary morgue at RAF Henlow being prepared as coronavirus situation 'extremel...

Mark Rutherford School

'Sophisticated fraud' after £1.1m grant for Bedford school's redevelopment goes ...

Money (stock image)

Bedfordshire councils 'benefited more from emergency coronavirus cash than initi...

Central Bedfordshire council's HQ

Premature’ to comment on financial impact of coronavirus on Central Beds Council

Coronavirus

Luton and Beds health chiefs are 'leading the local fight' against coronavirus

Luton has concerns over Central Bedfordshire's '˜unsound' housing plans

IN FULL: Hurdles to cross for Luton's planned expansion of airport

Social worker fined for illegal blue badge use

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Booming airport hosts jobs fair

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Jail threat for homeowner who lied to get Luton council house

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