Bedford and Kempston

Local MP shares Springfield Primary School’s Ofsted celebration

Springfield Primary School in Kempston had a very important visitor this week to help pupils and staff celebrate the school's latest Ofsted report. Bedford and Kempston MP...

‘Marginal’ Bedford prepares for a general election on 12 December

Bedford and the rest of the UK will be heading to the polls on Thursday 12 December as Parliament voted yesterday (Monday) to hold a general election.

The Queen’s speech was ‘a party-political broadcast for a Conservative Government in panic mode’

This week the Queen was summoned to Parliament to read out Boris Johnson’s Government’s agenda. But this was a highly unusual Queen’s speech, because...

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