St George's Day
The English flag is flying today at both Borough Hall and the Old Town Hall to celebrate St George's Day.
The English flag is flying today at both Borough Hall and the Old Town Hall to celebrate St George's Day.
I am delighted to have been elected as the first Chair of the new Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Consortium. Following the sterling work of the volunteer-run Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterways Trust in taking the project to a stage beyond the capabilities of a charitable trust, I am looking forward to working with the ten other partners who join Bedford Borough Council in working jointly to take make further progress.
Bedford's Christmas Lights Switch On event will take place on Thursday 22nd November, at 7pm, along The Embankment.
It is with a mixture of joy and relief that I can report that, as of last night, St Mary's Street is fully reopened ahead of schedule, following the urgent repair works. The works started on 3rd October after a ground radar survey found the road was in serious danger of collapse due to a complete lack of drainage on one side of the road, which was only resurfaced four years ago by the former County Council.
Mayor Dave being interviewed for BBC Three Counties Radio at the time of the introduction of the gritting quad bike three years...
This morning I visited Mark Rutherford School, for the opening of the STEM teaching block.