Writing in the Bedford News, Bedford Borough Liberal Democrat Group Leader Cllr Michael Headley has attacked the government's programme of post office closures and the plans to shut 7 local branches in Bedford Borough.
Gordon Brown is to tell Labour MPs to publicly declare any family members they employ as Conservative leader David Cameron admitted that more than 70 Tory MPs employ members of their family on their staff. The move comes after disgraced Tory MP Derek Conway was suspended from parliament for ten days yesterday over excessive payments to his son at taxpayers' expense. Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg has published details of the staff working at his offices, and urged the party's other MPs to do so too.
Local residents in Bellfields are angry about damage being done to grass verges in the area by cars and lorries.
Glenis Ansell stormed to victory in the Calne Council Lickhill by-election winning 278 votes (35%).
Lib Dem councillor Elwyn Watkins has described as shokcing the revelation that housing a prisoner in a police cell costs taxpayers £459 per night - the same amount as it would cost of a seven-night stay on the Caribbean island of Barbados, including the flights!
It has been announced today that the 2012 Olympic Games Mountain Biking event is to be moved from Brentwood.