Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have won the overwhelming support of a meeting of the full council for their call for a new Loan Assistance Scheme for Town Centre Retailers to apply to shops across all other parts of the Borough as well.
Bedford and Kempston will be hit hard by "fig-leaf" proposals in the pre-Budget report.
As the Mayor of Bedford continues his public spat with Bedford and Kempston's Labour MP, the Liberal Democrats have repeated their call for a comprehensive, lasting solution to the problem of unauthorised gypsy and traveller encampments in Bedford Borough.
On the day that Bedford's rail users were hit by news of spiralling fare increases for January 2009, Henry Vann has demanded a freeze on rail fares and called for the planned fares increases to be abandoned.
The Liberal Democrats have consistently been ahead of the game on economic issues. Here is a list of ten things we called for first, and which have now either been implemented or taken on board by at least one of the other two main parties:
Open space to the north of Brickhill owned by a charitable trust could be developed for housing following a 'botched' process which involved the land being proposed for development without the prior agreement of the charity's trustees.
