
Saturday Wellbeing returns to The Higgins Bedford
Saturday Wellbeing returns to The Higgins Bedford on Saturday 23 April with free activities to help improve general wellbeing.
Saturday Wellbeing returns to The Higgins Bedford on Saturday 23 April with free activities to help improve general wellbeing.
Mayor Dave Hodgson has announced several new projects to be added to the Council's Capital Programme. Paula Radcliffe Way will be repaired and resurfaced, new lifts will be installed at River Street Car Park and new Changing Places Toilets will be installed in the Borough. Other projects already announced will be expanded, including improvements to Brookside Care Home, additional funding for affordable housing support and structural maintenance to footbridges by the river.
The Quarry Theatre is now showing a 'Lockdown' Exhibition featuring over 100 pieces of work from members of the public created during Lockdown in various forms including paintings, paper sculptures and a knitted diary of lockdown life.
Construction of a new surface car park at Greyfriars starts on Monday as the long awaited regeneration of the Bedford Bus Station area continues.
Mayor Dave Hodgson has insisted that if Theresa May's claim that 'austerity is over' means anything at all, the Tory Government must use its forthcoming budget to change course dramatically over its plans to continue with massive, punishing cuts for local services.
Works have begun at Bedford College's Cauldwell Street campus for the first of six major Bedford Town Deal projects within the successful bid for £22.6m to invest in the local area.