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Cllr Roger Rigby

electric scooters on a town pavement

Council consultation to increase town centre restrictions on e-scooters and skateboarders

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Single-lane High Street now fully open in time for Christmas

The works to improve Bedford High Street were completed this week, just in time for the end of November deadline and to welcome Christmas shoppers to the town centre...
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Disappointment as call for council and school worker pay-rise amended

Councillors have expressed disappointment that a call for a fully-funded pay rise for council and school workers has been amended after it was found to undermine a national process. A...
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Govt accused of ‘letting down’ Kempston after town overlooked for regeneration funding

Bedford Borough leaders and councillors have accused the government of letting down the residents of Kempston after the town missed out on 'levelling up' funding in...
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Mistake in road surfacing sees Bedford High Street ripped up

Bedford’s High Street has had to be resurfaced after the new single-lane road was not laid to the correct specifications by the contractor. The new works along Bedford High Street, which...
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Letters: Global threat of climate change means we need less cars not cheap parking

Re: your article in your 19 October edition of Bedford Independent on ‘Bedford Borough Council’s decision to freeze car parking charges for the fifth year’. Cllr Rigby’s said...
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Fifth year of frozen car parking charges, but Conservatives say Mayor is not doing enough

News that Bedford's Mayor, Dave Hodgson, has frozen town-centre car parking charges for the fifth year running has been greeted with disdain by Conservative councillors...
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“Alarming” figures reveal Bedford area has just one GP for every 2,500 people

New "alarming" figures have revealed that there is only one GP for every 2,500 people in the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Clinical Governance Group (BLMK CCG) area...
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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...
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Bottle bank overflowing

Bin better: Boozy Bedfordians and driver shortages put recycling drop-off points under pressure

A combination of lorry driver shortages, vastly increased alcohol consumption and closed charity shops are putting council waste collection services under growing pressure. Councillors were…
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