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Bedford Borough Council and, inset, a file picture of a teddy bear café (Pictures: IMG/Pixabay)

Video shows moment council investigates teddy bear café following complaint

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Fuming train crash commuter given parking ticket by "unreasonable" council

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Person hit by train between Bedford and Luton

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Real Bedford match postponed after death of 15-year-old Oxford player

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Bedford council plans to stop using X after Grok AI concerns

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Bedford council to investigate its use of X over Grok AI concerns

Macclesfield's Ethan McLeod played against Bedford Town last night (Tuesday). (Photo by Cameron Smith - WWFC/Wolves via Getty Images)

Footballer Ethan McLeod dies in M1 crash travelling back from Bedford Town match

Popular apps and websites have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Full list of apps and websites affected by Cloudflare outage

DownDetector has recently seen a huge spike in problems with major apps including Twitter and Facebook. (Photo: SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty)

Major social media app goes down for users

Bedford train station

Expect delays as signalling system at Bedford fails twice in one day

Mohammad Yasin MP for Bedford and Kempston (Picture: Mohammad Yasin MP)

Bedford MP stripped of trade envoy position after welfare rebellion
Mohammad Yasin, MP for Bedford, has been removed from his position as the UK’s Trade Envoy to Pakistan in a move understood to be part of a broader set of reprisals by Prime Minister Keir Starmer following a Labour backbench rebellion over proposed welfare cuts.
John Guinn, Local Democracy Reporter

Users of social media site X (formerly Twitter) are currently unable to access the service.

Twitter hit by outage as users unable to use social media site

Scary stats show two in five Brits believe doom-scrolling is self-care

Firefighters on the scene at an industrial estate in Rushden (Picture: NFRS)

Businesses evacuated as plastic waste fire seen from Sharnbrook and Harrold

The A421 eastbound entry slip road will be closed from 8pm Friday to 6am Monday (Graphic: Pixabay)

Full weekend closure for A421 at Marston Moretaine

Russian state media fell for an outrageous April Fools joke that Britain was buying a new aircraft carrier and would name it HMS Prince Andrew.

Russia media falls for April Fool's gaffe involving Prince Andrew

From Twitter to X (Pic: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)

Major social media platform X hit by outages - latest

Robert Smith has revealed over the weekend he is to leave X/Twitter, but will be on other social media platforms such as BlueSky.

Robert Smith and Michael Stipe leave social media this weekend

A still from the video to Freezing This Christmas by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers

Who are Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers?

MKM Agriculture Ltd will close at the end of December. Picture: Google Maps

Agriculture machinery specialists in Bedford to close after 40 years

Bluesky has added millions of users in just a week. Photo: IAN LANGSDON/AFP via Getty Images

What is Bluesky? Why people are joining and how to sign up

Marques Brownlee. Photo: Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images for Samsung Galaxy Creators Collective

YouTube star apologises for 'inexcusable and dangerous' driving

All footpaths near the exclusion zone, including those along Rhineland Way, the cut-through at Douglas Road, and the paths near Glenrose Avenue should not be used (Picture: Pixabay)

Bedford residents told to avoid footpaths near Cleat Hill following explosion

Bedford (right) and a screenshot of the BBC weather app.

BBC apologises as 'hurricane force winds' wrongly predicted for Bedford

Halifax and Lloyds online banking down for thousands of customers

Flitwick Library

Flitwick Library forced to shut after suspected gas leak

New Order's show this evening in Cardiff has been cancelled over safety concerns regarding the weather conditions at Alexandra Head.

UK music giants forced to cancel show over safety concerns

Rachel Chinouriri attends The Ivor Novello Awards 2022 at The Grosvenor House Hotel on May 19, 2022 in London, England.

UK singer 'deeply saddened' as she's forced to cancel tour dates
Her tour was meant to kick off next month
Benjamin Jackson

Bedford Hospital

No hot water at Bedford Hospital's maternity unit for 24 hours

It looks like the whole of Black Tom is affected

Black Tom hit by water leak as Anglian Water fix problem

Bedford train station

Bedford trains blocked after reports of trespasser on railway

Grunge legends Pearl Jam have announced they’ve cancelled their upcoming London show due to illness in the band (Credit: Getty Images)

Pearl Jam cancels London show at the 11th hour due to 'illness'

Chocolate lovers are flying to Dubai for a viral chocolate bar. (Stock images for illustrative purposes by Getty/ATTA KENARE/GUILLAUME BAPTISTE/GIUSEPPE CACACE)

The viral chocolate bar that has Brits flying to Dubai to try out

(Photo: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)

Breaking Banking app goes down

Nadine Dorries and Festus Akinbusoye

Former MP Nadine Dorries slams "rigged" Conservative candidate selection

Bedford train station

Bedford commuters told to expect delays as person is hit by train

Expect delays if you go to A&E (Bedford Hospital/Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT)

Bedford Hospital A&E "particularly busy" as patients warned they'll have to wait

The incident happened earlier today (Tuesday)

Expect train delays after passenger taken ill between Bedford and Luton

A gorilla at Belfast Zoo was having fun in the snow making snowballs, in footage captured by staff. (Credit: Belfast Zoo)

Breaking WATCH: Gorilla makes snowballs at zoo

Gritting is underway in preparation for the cold snap expected this week.

Gritters will be out on Bedford's roads as temperatures drop says council

From left, Bedford Town Bridge and Radwell Bridge (Pictures: Bedford Borough Council)

Radwell Bridge still closed after flooding

High Street, Yielden

Another road closed in Bedford due to flooding

Bridgend in Carlton

Bridgend, at Carlton, is closed due to flooding

A scooter rider was caught over the drink-drive limit on a motorway hard shoulder Picture: Avon and Somerset police

Breaking Scooter rider charged after being filmed over the limit on motorway

Would you be willing to pay more in your council tax for the fire service?

Bedfordshire fire service wants its slice of council tax bill to rise
Make sure you have your say
Clare Turner

The New Year's service to Bedford from London is cancelled due to train crew shortages

No trains to Bedford from London on New Year's Eve

Could a Universal theme park be coming to Bedford? (Picture: Pixabay)

New Universal Studios theme park could be coming to Bedford

Ishmael Duncan, 24, of Kennington, south east London, has admitted blackmailing dozens of young girls worldwide into sending indecent pictures and videos of themselves by posing as a model agency scout on social media Picture: NCA/SWNS

Blackmailer made young girls send him sexual pictures and videos

Screen grab from Grand Theft Auto VI trailer. Picture: Rockstar Games

Watch first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI ahead of 2025 release

Expect delays if you go to A&E (Bedford Hospital/Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT)

Bedford Hospital A&E "very busy" as patients warned they'll have to wait

Mohammad Yasin MP

MP calls for ceasefire and condemns Hamas and Israeli government

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service news.

Fire crews tackle blaze after bin fire spreads to house

Firefighters work on the site of a bus accident on 3 October in Mestre, near Venice (Photo: MARCO SABADIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking Bus crash in Venice kills 21 and leaves dozens injured

Jack Sonni was known as “the other guitarist” during the London band’s Brothers in Arms era. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/

Jack Sonni: Dire Straits guitar legend dies at the age of 68

Augusta Lees has posted her parody about Mid Beds MP Nadine Dorries on X (formerly Twitter)

Come on Nadine: Pianist spoofs Dexys Midnight Runners' classic to ask MP to go

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