The protection of the river environment in Bedford Borough has been placed under threat by the Council Cabinet's proposals to scrap the policy preventing harmful development along the riverside.
Street lighting in the Royal Borough is set to become cheaper and more environmentally friendly. At a cabinet meeting on Thursday last week, councillors agreed to join with four other Berkshire local authorities to buy energy for street lighting, and bring in more modern lamps to reduce the borough's carbon footprint and cut light pollution.
Park Ward Liberal Democrats are delighted to learn of plans for the redevelopment of the former Charles Clark car showroom on Merridale Road, Chapel Ash. "This has long been an eyesore on the area", environmental campaigner Robin Lawrence said. The Liberal Democrats have learned that the site owners will be prosecuted unless the building is cleaned up swiftly.
Local campaigners Ian Bradwell and Chris Vaughan-Jones have both been out and about in Braunstone and Rowley Fields asking for YOUR views on the area.
Scotland is setting a course to achieve global leadership in marine power generation. The Scottish Executive has named nine marine energy projects that will share grants worth more than £13m, including one that will be the world's biggest wave energy project to date.
For those not up with the latest Internet jargon a blog is a web log or internet journal of someone's thoughts of the day. This month I have been keeping such a blog and topics cover a wide range of current affairs with a sporting view point as well. Here are this months list of topics :-