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28 August 2026
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A planter on Stanley Street that had "hollyhocks cut down and removed before they could self seed". Image: Teresa Walshe.

“We made a mistake”: council promises to replant shrubs after Black Tom planter damage

Bedford Borough Council has admitted that its maintenance team made a mistake while tidying up planters in the Black Tom area of the town, and that they shouldn't have been strimmed...
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Planter strimmed to the mud on Park Road West, Bedford Inset how one of the planters used to look before being cut down

Black Tom community gardeners heartbroken as street planters “strimmed to mud”

Community gardeners in the Black Tom area of Bedford have been left heartbroken after council maintenance crews strimmed community-tended planters and shrubs back to the bare ground...
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