Provisional GCSE results for the 2017/18 academic year have been released today showing that 63.7% of Bedford Borough students reached the required standard in English and Mathematics at Grade 4 and above (standard pass) and 41.1% of Bedford Borough students reached the required standard in English and Mathematics at Grade 5 and above (strong pass), an increase of around 3% on last year.
Tory-run Torbay Council has been forced to announce an 'immediate moratorium' on all non-urgent expenditure. The council's first quarter budget monitoring report has forecast an in-year overspend of more than £2.8million.
Mayor Dave Hodgson has wished Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating Eid al-Adha today
Mayor Dave Hodgson has wished Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating Eid al-Adha today
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrat Homelessness campaigner Tim Caswell has revealed that more than 100,000 prisoners across England and Wales left prison for "unsettled" or "unknown" accommodation in the last three years, almost half of the 220,411 prisoners released in that period.
Northamptonshire's Conservative Council chaos has made news in unlikely places, the pages of the New York Times!
