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Mid-Bedfordshire candidates “deceive the public” by using fake newspapers ahead of by-election

Two political parties in Mid-Bedfordshire have been found using fake newspapers while campaigning ahead of a, yet to be announced, by-election in the area. The tactic of making political campaign...

North Bedfordshire Lib Dems criticised for “cynical attempt to mislead” public

Bedfordshire Liberal Democrats have been criticised for delivering campaign material designed to look like a local newspaper. The North Bedfordshire Observer printed as a tabloid-sized...

Covid misinformation warning as half of Britain says it has been exposed to ‘fake news’

A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has raised concerns about the risk of disinformation spread on social media amid the coronavirus outbreak, highlighting...

View from the villages: How to communicate during the coronavirus crisis

Starting today, Cllr Phillippa Martin-Moran-Bryant begins her regular monthly column for the Bedford Independent, looking at issues that particularly...

Christchurch and social media reform

MARCH: On Friday we woke to the terrible news that 50 innocent lives had been taken in New Zealand’s worst terrorist attack on two mosques...

The message is simple: local news needs to adapt or die

There’s a great saying that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone, and it’s never been more poignant when it comes to Bedford’s local newspapers. We’re now facing a choice in our town to simply...

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