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Additional six-mile school run for Wixams’ parents after two year delay in road opening

There is no through route to join both halves of Wixams, meaning some children can’t walk to school, a meeting heard. Councillor Graeme Coombes told the recent Wixams...

Face-to-face council health meeting blasted as ‘hypocritical and irresponsible’

A Health Overview and Scrutiny meeting has been blasted as “hypocritical and irresponsible”. Councillor Kay Burley (Labour, Kempston Central and East Ward) asked the Bedford Borough...

GP surgeries ‘acutely aware of difficulties’ as they receive almost double the number of patient calls

One GP surgery in Bedford Borough recently received over 45,000 telephone calls in one month – well over the pre-pandemic norm of 27-29,000 calls. David Picking, head of primary care...

Bedford Lib Dems call Government “out of touch” over cut to Universal Credit

Bedford Borough's Liberal Democrats have said the Government is "out of touch" over Universal Credit reforms, but the local Conservatives have defended the comments as "misleading". Liberal...

Letters: Are Borough Conservatives unaware of refugee and asylum support in Bedford?

So Cllr Graeme Coombes and his Conservative colleagues are appealing to the Borough executive to show generosity to the Afghan citizens who supported the NATO operation in Afghanistan...

Calls for Bedford’s Mayor to “act swiftly” to help Afghan refugees

Bedford's Mayor is being called upon to "act swiftly" and make sure our Borough shares some of the responsibility in supporting a resettlement scheme set up in the wake of the crisis in...

East West Rail: Local political tensions rumble on

The Conservative group continue to want a re-consultation of route options between Bedford-St Neots/Tempsford, but the Lib Dems argue if such a move occurred, East West Rail would be delayed by years...

North/South pothole divide doesn’t exist says Borough Council

A councillor who said many residents believe most council money is spent on areas north of the river provoked a senior officer’s rapid denial. The topic of potholes was...

It’s “impossible to plan in detail” for the return to school in September

There is a real prospect that the new school year will look very much like the one just about to end, with masks and Covid-19 precautions still in place, a meeting heard. Leading Bedford...

Council continues to defend Fusion contract despite ongoing calls for change

Council officers have defended giving taxpayers’ support to a leisure operator to help it when the venues it runs were mothballed during the pandemic. A meeting this week heard that Bedford...

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