Earlier this year Stevington Village Hall submitted an application to Bedford Borough Council for funding under the Mayor's Climate Change grant scheme. Under the scheme, community projects that would reduce carbon emissions within Bedford Borough were awarded a grant which would award projects up to 50% match-funding of between £5k and £20k for improvements.
With works by Anglian Water to fix a broken water main in St Paul's Square set to continue through the weekend, the following...
The overwhelming confidence shown by commercial operators in the Bedford Town Centre riverside regeneration scheme has been further illustrated with news that the high quality restaurant operator Wagamama has signed up for a twenty-year commitment to Bedford. Wagamama joins a host of high quality restaurants in signing up for the exciting scheme.
Last week, the week in which the extent of the national crisis in primary school capacity was revealed, the ceremony took place to mark the start of work on other school building project in Bedford Borough. A brand new extension site of Wootton Lower School is being constructed off Fields Road, in Wootton, and will cater for the housing growth caused by the new development there.
Mayor Dave Hodgson shows children from Wootton Lower School the plans for the school's new Fields Road extension site ...
Mayor Dave Hodgson has slammed the decision by NHS Commissioners to pursue plans to downgrade Bedford or Milton Keynes Hospital despite a plea from Bedford Hospital itself to drop the proposals and take a different approach.