Liberal Democrat Councillor Wendy Rider was, last night, elected Deputy Speaker of Bedford Borough Council at the Annual Council Meeting on Wednesday evening (2nd May). The meeting also saw Cllr Wendy Rider elected as Deputy Speaker.
Children in Bedford Borough were once again far more likely to be offered a place at their first choice primary school than they were elsewhere across the country on 'national offer day'.
Writing in his April column for the Bedfordshire Midweek, Mayor Dave Hodgson looked at the range of measures designed to make parking in Bedford Town Centre cheaper, safer and more convenient, including the freeze in annual charges, the new surface car park opening this summer (pictured) and investment in additional CCTV.
Mayor Dave Hodgson put the first spade in the ground at the Council's i-Worx development project, which will feature an advanced Technology and Engineering Workshop Cluster offering twelve modern workshop spaces.
Two major new regional distribution centres are to be built in Bedford Borough for popular nationwide retailers which will create an estimated 1,400 new jobs for the area.
The Windrush Generation are British citizens. People who've lived here for decades - working, raising families, part of Britain. How they have been treated by the Home Office is brutal and cruel.