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How AI is making small business owners more efficient than ever

Ask any small business owner in Bedford what they're short of, and the answer is rarely ideas or ambition. It's likely to be time. Running a small business means being the boss, the bookkeeper...

Opinion: Bedford Borough Council’s restaurant campaign should have been made in Bedford

An AI image sparked backlash over Bedford Borough Council’s restaurant campaign. Here’s what could have been done instead, and why keeping value in Bedford matters...

Bedford Borough Council criticised over AI-generated restaurant campaign image

Bedford Borough Council has faced criticism from local illustrators and residents after using an AI-generated image to promote its Bedford Restaurants World Cup campaign...

Bedford council introduces AI tool to transcribe meetings and generate assessments

Bedford Borough Council says more than 300 staff are using an AI system to record meetings, transcribe conversations and generate assessment reports across Adults’ and Children’s Services...

Council says AI tools are making Freedom of Information requests more complex

Bedford Borough Council is facing growing pressure in responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) and Subject Access Requests (SARs), with councillors warned that the use of artificial...

Legal advice: Regulating the algorithm – Employment law risks in the age of AI

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the workplace has revolutionised employment practices, particularly in Human Resources (HR) and recruitment. AI is deeply embedded in everyday...

Monthly column: AI in policing – making a difference; being ethical

Technology, including AI, is increasingly used in every aspect of our daily lives, and businesses and public services are no exception. AI has an important contribution to make in preventing crime...

Bedford Borough Council stops short of deleting X account despite child abuse and deepfake concerns

Bedford Borough Council says it will keep X for emergency use despite reports linking the platform to AI-generated sexualised images of children and growing international investigations...

Bedford Ian writes…

30 January 2026: Phallic frosting, Christmas curse, Parking politics, and Cricket cuisine. Bedford Ian has been looking at recent goings on across Bedford Borough and tells us what he thinks...

Bedford Borough Council to review use of website that allowed users to make sexualised images of children

Bedford Borough Council will review its use of X after concerns about Grok, the platform’s AI tool, being used to create sexualised images of children. At a Full Council meeting on Wednesday...

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