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Sheep Flock Priory Country Park
Police are investigating after sheep were killed in an apparent dog attack on a flock on an 'island' near Priory Country Park last month. This report contains images some may find distressing....
Wright Tebeck. Image: Bedfordshire Police
A predator who left his victim feeling like a “prisoner in her own home” has been jailed for three years for sexual assault. Wright Tebeck approached the teenage girl he knew while she was working in her front...
Bedford's River Great Ouse, Longholme Boat House, Longholme Lake and Butterfly Bridge. Credit: ADC Films
Bedfordshire Police has confirmed that on Sunday evening (26 November) it performed a controlled explosion of a device found on Bedford Embankment. In a statement on its social media...
So far this year, Bedfordshire Police has had 4,612 cases of domestic abuse and 3,431 of them had a child in the home, the county’s top cop has said. During the latest police and crime...
Bedfordshire Police have released these CCTV Images of people who may have information that may support the investigation into the sexual assault in Bedford on 26 November 2021. Image: Bedfordshire Police
Bedfordshire Police say they're conducting special patrols tonight (Friday) as part of a new appeal to help solve a serious sexual assault in Bedford that happened two years ago this...
A man from Oxford who preyed on a lone woman in Bedford before raping her has been convicted. He will be sentenced on 26 January. Daniel Williams, 36, was found guilty of rape in connection to the...
Ben Noonan. Image: Bedfordshire Police
A Bedford man who assaulted police and security staff, leaving one officer with physical and mental scars, while trying to evade arrest has been jailed. Ben...
Bedford prison
HM Inspector of Prisons says that conditions at HMP Bedford have deteriorated so sharply that they've had to issue an urgent notification for improvement...
Police are hunting for this man who was seen walking along Stanley Street with a machete on 5 November.
A family with a young child was seen fleeing in terror as a man brazenly walked along Stanley Street carrying a huge machete last weekend (Sunday, 5 November) "looking for...
Ashish Sachdev Nahar who was murdered in Jubilee Park in June 2023
A 16-year-old boy has changed his plea and admitted murdering a man in Bedford’s Jubilee Park. The teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter...
Police on the beat
Bedfordshire Police has not been consistent in reporting how officers are allocated in community teams which makes it “frustrating” when tracking numbers, a meeting heard. The Bedfordshire Police...
Observations raised over five years by a member of the public into the running of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner have resulted in over 4,000 emails, a meeting heard...