Bedford and Kempston Liberal Democrats have selected Henry Vann as their parliamentary candidate to fight the next general election, expected by 2010. Henry was selected at a packed hustings meeting open to all Lib Dem members in Bedford and Kempston on Wednesday night.
Writing in the June edition of the Bedford News, Bedford Borough Liberal Democrat Group Leader Cllr Dave Hodgson has attacked the Labour Government's post office closure programme. In the article, Cllr Hodgson encourages residents concerned about local branch closures to register their views when the public consultation begins in July.
British Telecom have announced plans to remove 28 public payphones from a variety of both urban and rural locations across Bedford Borough. Liberal Democrats have called for BT to justify the removals by providing individual usage figures for the payphones and stating the criteria they have used to identify call boxes for removal.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have called for greater openness on the council after part of Monday's Implementation Executive meeting was held in secret.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats are demanding that plans for a giant incinerator at Rookery South Pit near Stewartby are assessed on equal terms along with other waste treatment options to ensure that a cleaner, more environmentally friendly solution to the problem of waste disposal is used. At last night's meeting of the Implementation Executive the Lib Dems won approval for their proposal that such an assessment be made a condition of the Borough Council's support for any further spending by the County Council on the project to procure a new waste treatment site.
Roads and pavements in Brickhill have been left unfinished and in a dangerous state due to the failure of electricity company EDF to complete essential works to services.
