Reported this tree today – nearly knocked my head off as low branches and on a walk, it’s on a public footpath so council when receiving report will send their tree team out and prune/cut back/ chop down

Please check if your children are eligible for Free School Meals With Covid-19 with us for the last 14 months, many families incomes have taken a hit and reduced due to the pandemic. Schools are back and you can check if your child is eligible for free school meals by reading this small article. It […]

One of the most annoying things that iritate residents is the cutting down or cutting back of trees. Trees are one of the most effective ways of removing CO2 out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis. Bedford Borough Council has committed itself to being net carbon-neutral by 2030. The resources for looking after […]

Kooth support service for young people Kooth is a web based confidential support service available to young people 11-20. Kooth provides a safe and secure means of accessing mental health and wellbeing support designed specifically for young people. Kooth offers young people the opportunity to have a text-based conversation with a qualified counsellor. Counsellors are available […]

One year ago our local council, volunteers and whole community of Bedford Borough achieved the following: Distributed over 3,000 food parcels Collected and delivered over 650 prescriptions   Assisted with the delivery of over 400 shopping requests Used approximately 600 volunteers who have undertaken almost 1,000 tasks relating to food distribution, prescription delivery and befriending […]

London Road is to receive new upgraded traffic lights at the junction with Elstow Road. The junction will be updated over the next three weeks. The traffic light technology will be upgraded so that it can detect traffic, reduce congestion, and improve journey times. It is all part of the Transporting Bedford 2020 programme to […]

All local councillors are idiots! A quote I read recently on social media. A quote given maybe by someone who may or may not know any local councillors, who knows?, so how can we judge if the quote is true or not? To change this, several options exist: 1) Stand to be a local councillor […]

Fantastic News! Cardington Road in Kingsbrook from the Tesco Roundabout to the roundabout near the Barns Hotel on Cardington Road is to be resurfaced from the 28th February 2020. It will mean road closures for approximately 11 nights between the hours of 8pm and 6am so that the re-surfacing can be done as quickly as […]

Bedfordshire Police has advised of an attempted burglary that occurred in Cardington Road. Please check your own security and also report any suspicious activity or incidents. Cardington Road, Bedford. Beat 771. – Reported at 17:47 on 18/01/20. The householder returned home to find the lock to their flat had been broken and jemmy marks on the […]

Holocaust Memorial Day is the international day to remember those killed under Nazi persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. This Day is commemorated on 27 January, the date on which Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. This was the most infamous of the Nazi camps where over 1.1million people were murdered, over 90% […]