Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats increased their number of council seats to 16 as they won the Brickhill ward election from the Conservatives. Charles Royden won the seat by almost 600 votes from the nearest challenger, on a night when the Lib Dems also won all 6 seats they were defending.
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Ming Campbell, Lib Dem party leader, visited Bedford today to back Christine McHugh in her campaign to be the new Mayor of Bedford Borough.
With residents receiving their new council tax bills for the year this month, Lib Dems on Bedford Borough Council are continuing to highlight the unfairness of the additional charge that is forced upon those who pay their bill at the post office. Lib Dem Borough Councillor Paul Whitehead, who spoke out against the Post Office charges when they were examined by the council's Corporate & Resource committee in December, has now taken action by cancelling his own direct debit to the council and paying by a "Help the Aged" credit card instead.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have launched their full slate of candidates for the Borough Council elections on 3rd May.
Commenting on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade on Sunday, Bedford Borough Liberal Democrat Group Leader Michael Headley said:
