PCC welcomes new mental health care initiative to “free up police time”
Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner has welcomed a new government initiative to ensure the “most appropriate” agency is on hand to give urgent mental health support to those in need…
Explore the county on foot at this year’s Bedfordshire Festival of Autumn Walks
Bedfordshire Ramblers has announced the programme for the first-ever Bedfordshire Festival of Autumn Walks. The Festival, offering over 30 walks, will run over nine days between 9 – 17 September…
Podcast commemorates 180th anniversary of the last woman to be publicly executed at Bedford Gaol
On Saturday, 5 August it is 180 years to the day, that Sarah Dazley was hanged outside Bedford Gaol for the crime of poisoning her second
husband, William. She was dubbed by the Victorian press the…
Police warn they will clamp down on Wixams ‘street racers’
Drivers taking part in car meets could face having their vehicle seized, Bedfordshire Police has warned. During the latest Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and Chief Constable Accountability…
Letters: Health leaders are contradicting themselves about lack of GPs
This is a letter in response to the recent article: Building new surgeries won’t solve problem of lack of GPs says local NHS chair published on Bedford Independent on 26 July. In the article, Dr Rima Makarem…
Police arrest three teens and two women in connection with Wootton stabbing
Bedfordshire Police has arrested five people in connection to a stabbing which left a teenage boy seriously injured.
Police were called at around 6.30pm yesterday (Monday) to Ashpole Avenue, Wootton, after reports a teenage boy had been stabbed in the leg. The boy was taken to hospital where he is currently…
Abbeyfields residents petition council to install speed reduction measures
Residents beleaguered by speeding cars using their neighbourhood as a rat run have launched a petition asking the council to install speed reduction measures. Members of the Abbeyfields Residents’…