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Castle Road Area 20mph consultation November 2021 (l-r) Councillors Jake Sampson and Hilde Hendrickx (Lib Dem, Newnham) with Councillors Ben Foley and Lucy Bywater (Green, Castle)

Consultation to put brakes on speed as councillors bid for 20mph limit

A consultation has opened to see if the entire Castle Road area in Bedford should have a permanent 20mph speed limit, after councillors in Castle and Newnham Ward said...
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Grant Palmer Rural Services Bus Routes

Rural Bedfordshire bus services to continue with minor changes

Grant Palmer and Bedford Borough Council are continuing their partnership to provide rural bus services across the Borough, so rural communities can connect to education...
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Mohammad Yasin MP

Bedford & Kempston MP calls on Government to commit to East West Rail electrification

As the COP 26 Climate Change conference continues in Glasgow this week, Bedford and Kempston MP, Mohammad Yasin quizzed the Chancellor today (Monday) about the electrification...
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Letters: “Drawing on the same evidence, support for EWR has never been higher”

I read James Stanbridge’s letter (“Sparse support for EWR”) with interest. Drawing on the same evidence of public opinion in Bedford as Mr Stanbridge – that is, none whatsoever –...
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snow winter weather cold council workers road gritting clearing snow

‘Winter is coming’ Council’s gritting teams prepare to keep Bedford Borough moving

From today, gritters across Bedford Borough will be carrying ready to be mobilised to tackle dropping temperatures and winter weather to keep traffic moving and safe as and when temperatures drop...
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Green councillors dismayed that new drive-thru is approved at congestion hotspot

While works to ease congestion at the Clapham Road/Manton Lane and A6 roundabout will be completed this month, Green councillors have expressed their dismay...
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BFARe protesters outside St Cuthbert's Hall EWR meeting with Mohammed Yasin MP 15 October

Campaigners call EWR meeting “a tick-box exercise” but Bedford and Kempston MP says it was “constructive”

Bedfordians campaigning against the East-West Rail route have told the Bedford Independent a meeting with Simon Blanchflower, CEO of the East-West Rail Co (EWR Co)...
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Bedford train station to get life-saving defibrillators as part of network wide roll-out

Bedford's Midland Mainline train station will soon have a life-saving automated external defibrillator (AEDs) installed as part of a roll-out that will see the devices...
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Pathways Tutor Nicky Noble and Luton Airport Parkway station manager Joe Healy (right) with students and companions at Bedford station and Carl Martin, Accessibility Lead (left)

Students find ‘path’ to more freedom with Try a Train day

Bedford train station has helped show special needs students how they can develop more independent lives through rail travel. 11 students from Central Beds College's...
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Secondary school added to the no-car ‘School Street’ scheme

A second School Street scheme is to be put in place following the success of a trial at a Bedford school to restrict motorised traffic at school drop-off and pick-up times, a meeting heard...
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