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Facial Recognition warning poster on The Embankment. Image: Bedford Independent

Bedfordshire Police deploy facial recognition for 250,000 Bedford River Festival visitors

Bedford expects over 250,000 visitors this weekend for the biennial River Festival. Local councils and police have revealed strict safety rules, including road closures and live facial recognition...
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Between 250,000 to 300,000 people descend on Bedford along the banks of the River Great Ouse for the Bedford River Festival

Leave the car behind: Plan your perfect Bedford River Festival weekend with our complete travel guide

The Bedford River Festival returns this weekend, bringing two days of spectacular river events and live entertainment. Here is our complete travel guide to make sure your journey runs smoothly...
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Bedford Borough Hall Bedford Borough council signage and entrance

Locals challenge timing of Bedford traveller site planning consultation

Frustrations have been voiced over a public consultation period for a proposed gypsy and traveller site in Bedford coinciding with the peak summer holiday season. An application has been submitted...
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Scaffolding erected around houses in a new housing development Image: Irene Miller/Shutterstock

Bedford Borough landowners invited to put forward development sites for Local Plan 2050

Bedford Borough Council is calling on local people, landowners and businesses to suggest potential plots for housing, retail and renewable energy to help shape the area's growth up to 2050...
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Bedford Ian writes…

Water torture, Motion sickness, Clean sweep, Caught shorts, and Office outing. Bedford Ian has been looking at recent goings on across Bedford Borough and tells us what he thinks of it all…
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Bedford Town Centre from above

Councillors fear tourism tax could drive Universal visitors away

A ‘tourism tax’ targeting overnight visitors to the Universal theme park and resort near Bedford would be “the absolute last thing” the borough council needs to impose, a meeting heard...
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Cllr Abu Sultan leader of Bedford Borough Labour Group

Monthly column: Labour to bring forward motion to strengthen local democracy and deliver better governance for Bedford Borough

Bedford Borough Labour Group will bring a motion to Full Council calling for a review of the Borough’s governance arrangements and for the process of changing the directly elected Executive Mayor...
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Mayor Tom Wootton's Universal mug with the list of locations for Universal Theme Parks around the world. Image: Bedford Independent

Bedford Borough Council plans tourism strategy to capitalise on Universal’s £50bn economic impact

A tourism strategy is being developed to make the most of the Universal UK theme park’s “once-in-a-generation investment” to transform the borough. It’s part of a local visitor...
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Members of the Bedford Borough Council housing team at the MJ Awards

Bedford Borough Council housing team reaches finals of local government ‘Oscars’

Celebrations were in order for housing staff at Bedford Borough Council last month, when they were finalists at the MJ Achievement Awards. Staff were nominated for the Best Council...
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Grant Palmer and Stagecoach bus at Bedford Bus Station. Image: Bedford Borough Council

Bedford councillors unite in unanimous vote to tackle ‘savage’ bus cuts as 2,000 residents sign petitions

More than 2,000 residents have signed petitions reacting to “devastating cuts” to bus services across Bedford Borough, prompting a plea for cross-party unity at a full council meeting...
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