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25 April 2025: Bike ban, Mic slip, Auf Wiedersehen, Map and Troll trouble. Bedford Ian has been looking at recent goings on across Bedford Borough and tells us what he thinks of it all...

Time running out to have your say on Bedford town centre cycling ban

Time is running out to respond to Bedford Borough Council’s consultation on the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) in the town centre, with Bedfordians being urged to...

Letters: Cycle ban is helping destroy the town centre and local environment

Bedford has always been until recently a ’Town of Cyclists’ since the invention of the safety cycle, not to the extent of Cambridge or Oxford but nevertheless in the top quartile of UK cycling...

Letters: “Even cyclists need to obey the law”

As a fellow newcomer to both cycling and Bedford, I do have a little sympathy for Karyn Pemberton being caught out illegally cycling in a pedestrianised area. After all, there is a strong laissez-faire...

Letters: Cycling ban has left me feeling like a criminal

I am fairly new to Bedford and have so far felt it to be very welcoming, lovely and quite a safe place to live. That is until the other day, when I was innocently cycling through the town centre and was stopped...

Letters: I’m delighted at cycle ban

Delighted to see that common sense has prevailed and cycling continues to be banned from the town centre, along with the scooters, they are just a menace in any pedestrian area, and in the...

Green councillors accused of “dredging the barrel of human decency” over cycle ban

Green councillors were accused of "dredging the barrel of human decency" by bringing up racism in a heated exchange about controversial cycling rules in Bedford...

Deputy Mayor “fed up” with “spurious” statements but refuses to answer questions

Bedford’s deputy mayor said he is getting a bit fed up with Green Party councillors’ “spurious” statements – but chose not to answer the question a Green councillor put to him, despite being...

Fury as deputy mayor ignores consultation results on town centre cycle ban

Councillors, campaigners and residents have expressed their disappointment that Bedford's deputy mayor has recommended ignoring consultation...

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