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Ban for Bedford boss Lee Bircham.

Nine game ban and fine for Bedford boss after alleged comments to referee

Drink driver Matthew Wootten crashes into the gates of the Prime Minister’s country house.

Watch: Drink driver smashes into gates of PM’s country house

abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

Neil Kinnock falls over on Brighton seafront in 1983.

Funny political stunts gone wrong from elections past

General Election 2024’s 7 best campaign moments and gaffes.

General Election 2024 7 best campaign moments and gaffes

Rishi Sunak: Four men arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass

Just Stop Oil protesters have targeted multiple private jets at an airfield in Stansted after Taylor Swift landed her own private plane just hours before. (Credit: Just Stop Oil)

Breaking Watch: Just Stop Oil target Taylor Swift

Activists sitting by Stonehenge after it was sprayed orange (Photo: Just Stop Oil / Supplied)

Breaking Watch: Just Stop Oil 'paint' world-famous UK monument

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How UK parties are approaching National Insurance ahead of election

File photo of a person putting a vote into a ballot box

General Election: Who is standing for election in Bedford

Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe.

Watch: Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe
Watch as the PM made an embarrassing football gaffe, asking brewery staff in Wales if they were looking forward to ‘all the football’.
Jessica Martin

File photo of a person putting a vote into a ballot box

Here's what Bedfordshire voters need to know as snap election called

Bedford MP Mohammad Yasin. Picture: Richard Townshend

Bedford's MP will stand for for Labour again in July's General Election

Rishi Sunak has called a general election for July 4.

Watch: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces July 4 General Election

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking with NFU President Tom Bradshaw at the Farm to Fork Summit.

Bedfordshire farming leader welcomes government support but says immediate help ...

What you need to know about the new Universal Credit rules

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

Director Grant Walters at The Sports Shop in Kingswinford show off their St George's Cross transfer to apply to new England kit. A sports shop is selling St George’s Cross iron-on transfers for £4.95 - so fans can cover the controversial design on the new England football shirt.

Shop sells St George patch to cover rainbow flag on Nike's England kit

Bedford Renal Unit and, inset, MP Mohammad Yasin

MP calls on PM to do all he can to reopen Bedford Renal Unit

Jeremy Hunt will announce the 2024 Budget. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty/Adobe

Budget 2024: Hunt cuts NI again and reforms child benefit

The UK has entered a recession

UK enters recession as economy shrinks

XL Bullies will be banned from Februrary 2024.

XL Bully Ban: Everything you need to know as ban comes into place

Children aged two will recieve 15 hours of free childcare.

Breaking Free childcare scheme April roll out

Paula Vennells

Petition to strip former Bedford School governor of CBE hits a million

Thea and Richard Fuller, MP with winning Christmas Card

Oakley Primary Academy celebrates competition win and a special visit from MP

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

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

Rishi Sunak said allegations of a Tory MP committing multiple rapes are “very serious” and anyone with evidence should “talk to police”. (Photo: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking Sunak urges victims of alleged rapist Tory MP to ‘go to police’

Mike Duxbury and Ness Shillito

Blind Flitwick farmer gets top award from PM Rishi Sunak
Having grown up on a farm, he knew that’s all he wanted to do
Clare Turner

Alistair Strathern MP outside The Rufus Centre, Flitwick Photo: LDRS

New MP reacts to being part of history “not once, but twice in a week”

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

Breaking NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

The UK has called for a temporary "pause" in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, to allow humanitarian aid to reach those in Gaza and to allow the release of hostages. (Credit: Getty Images)

Breaking UK calls for 'pause' in Israel-Hamas conflict but rejects ceasefire

Heat pumps grant rises to £7.5k as UK Government warned it won’t meet 2050 net zero target

Breaking UK government increases heat pumps grant in effort to achieve net zero

Former SNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron, left, who has defected to the Tories, and SNP leader Humza Yousaf. Credit: PA/Getty

Breaking SNP MP defects to Tories after claiming 'toxic and bully treatment'

Festus Akinbusoye and Rishi Sunak. Image: LDRS

Mid Bedfordshire by-election: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits constituency

Dale Vince joins Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. Picture Date: Thursday June 8, 2023. Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

Breaking A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

American XL bully dog

Breaking Xl Bully destroyed after child rushed to hospital following attack

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Breaking Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

Rishi Sunak's government will preside over the highest tax rises on record, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. (Credit: Getty Images)

Breaking Sunak's government will oversee highest tax rises on record

The Prime Minister is reportedly "alarmed" by the ballooning costs of the HS2 [project amid rumours that his government may be about to announce that the Northern leg of the line will be scrapped. (Credit: Hollie Adams/PA Wire)

Breaking Rishi Sunak 'alarmed' by costs of HS2 project amid Cabinet split

Nadine Dorries (Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

13 candidates hoping to become Mid Bedfordshire's new MP in by-election

Rishi Sunak is reportedly drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax as he looks to attract voters ahead of the next general election. Credit: Getty Images

Breaking Rishi Sunak considering inheritance tax cut

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Breaking Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

An XL Bully was involved in one of the attacks, injuring a 15-year-old girl

American XL bullies 'to be banned by end of the year'

Wegovy is now available on the NHS

Weight-loss injection Wegovy now available on the NHS
The Weight loss injection Wegovy will be prescribed via specialist NHS weight management services.
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Lucy Letby received a rare whole life order after being convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016.

Criminals must face victims for sentencing after Lucy Letby’s no-show

Nadine Dorries (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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

Nadine Dorries (Getty)

Lib Dems to table ‘Dosser Dorries Bill’ to force by-election in Mid Bedfordshire

Alistair Strathern, who hopes to take Nadine Dorries' seat for Labour, taking part of a zombie-themed Greenpeace protest outside the Home Office in London (Chris J Ratcliffe/Greenpeace/PA Wire)

Labour hopeful for under fire MP Nadine Dorries' seat targeted

Restyle app to make you look like doll ‘whitewashing’ people of colour

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are considering awarding pay rises to certain groups of striking workers. (Photo by STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Cabinet split over awarding striking workers 6% pay rise

A three year old British girl is thought to be among those stabbed in the knife attack

Breaking British girl, 3 among those stabbed in knife attack in Annecy, France

Breaking Wegovy: What is the weight loss jab which GPs will offer on NHS

Lab tests have shown vapes confiscated from school students were mostly illegal, and had high levels of lead, nickel and chromium (Photo: NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

Government announces crackdown on vape adverts targeting children

International students who come to the UK will no longer be able to bring family with them except under specific circumstances in a government bid to bring migration down.

Many international students to lose right to bring family to UK

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Maryam Moshiri will appear in Taskmaster’s New Year Treat after becoming known for a viral BBC News moment in which she was accidentally shown making a middle-finger gesture during a studio countdown.

Maryam Moshiri joins Taskmaster after cancer battle

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Kevin the Carrot and Chantenay launch a search for missing Cauli Dog in Aldi's 2026 Christmas advert.

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