Bedford Borough Council's music service is expanding its offering to ensure that lower, middle and upper schools students can all be given an opportunity to learn an instrument, or become part of a new musical group.
A project to improve broadband speeds around the Borough took another major step forward today when Bedford Borough Council and two neighbouring councils signed a new contract with BT Openreach which secures £2.6m of extra funding on top of over £6m of Government and local funding.
Bedford Borough Council is launching a campaign to encourage local residents to recycle the aluminium screw tops along with their glass bottles.
As time ticks on, more and more local children and families are facing the huge difficulties and extra strain of the loss of vital local children's hospital services, and yet we have heard nothing of any plans to restore services to Bedford. We know only that the Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group is planning to consult on unnecessary, permanent cuts to services. That's why tomorrow's (Saturday) march in support of children's A&E services and of Riverbank Children's Ward is so timely, as there is clearly a need to get the message across to the decision-makers in the NHS that our community expects nothing less than a united effort to bring these vital services back as soon as possible.
In spite of the exam boards' uncertainty over grade boundaries, Bedford Borough has seen outstanding progress in provisional GCSE results this year - bucking the national trend. Overall results for 5 A*-C GCSE's (including English and Mathematics) for Bedford Borough Schools is 60.1% compared to 54.5% in 11/12 - this is a 5.6% improvement.
