Politics

Caddington residents have been upset by Central Bedfordshire Council who turned up unannounced with police to demolish “an important community bus shelter”.

The East of England region mainly followed the national trend in the EU elections - electing three candidates from the Brexit Party.

The new Independent councillors took their seats in the main chamber for the first full council meeting since their remarkable victory at the May election.

Dunstable’s new Mayor Cllr Sidney Abbott was duly elected last Monday in the presence of the Meryl Dolling, the High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, visiting Mayors, past Mayors of Dunstable, Councillors, officers and other honoured guests.

A leaked report has revealed that Houghton Regis Town Council failed to have a legal contract in place with a company whose director later sued the council, with a payout of over £28,000.

A departed Central Beds councillor has been censured by its standards sub-committee for breaches of “integrity”, “accountability” and “honesty” after spreading a rumour, it has been revealed.

“It’s unbelievable really.” That was the reaction from United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) candidate Pat Hamill after making electoral history in Central Bedfordshire.

The Tories haven taken a dent in their majority across Central Bedfordshire as voters elected a new council made up of 41 Conservative councillors, 13 Independents, three Liberal Democrats, one Labour councillor and one UK Independence Party councillor.

A Luton man who sent threatening and racially aggravated emails to seven MPs has today been jailed.

A Conservative candidate in the upcoming Central Beds Council and Houghton Regis Town Council elections has been suspended from the party over comments made about Islam on a Facebook page supporting Jacob Rees-Mogg.

A standards sub-committee hearing is to investigate complaints made against a Central Bedfordshire Councillor.

South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous has won £5,000 in damages and the cost of legal fees against the Sunday Times for wrongly accusing him of buying quills for artwork on his Parliamentary Expenses.

Politicians were asked to vote on eight possible options for Britain’s Brexit future in Parliament on Wednesday night - and just like the rest of the country, Bedfordshire’s MPs were divided on their opinions.

A Houghton Regis Town councillor has blamed a social media site’s rules after presiding over a Facebook group which was littered with racist posts.

Dunstable residents claim the positioning of a new zebra crossing is dangerous.

The leader of Luton Borough Council has called for a by-election following yesterday’s announcement that Luton South MP Gavin Shuker has quit the Labour Party.