Responding to reports that the proportion of parents lending money to their children for housing deposits has risen to 27%, Liberal Democrat Housing campaigner Dean Crofts, said "A broken housing market that routinely relies on parents lending cash to young home-buyers flies in the face of fairness."
The first Miyawaki planting project in Bedford Borough will take place at Longholme Way, Bedford, on Saturday 21 January. This is an exciting opportunity for volunteers to make a positive impact in their community by helping to create dense, biodiverse urban forests using the Miyawaki method with native trees.
Works have begun at Bedford College's Cauldwell Street campus for the first of six major Bedford Town Deal projects within the successful bid for £22.6m to invest in the local area.
Pensioners have until 18 December to check and apply for Pension Credit
Mayor Dave Hodgson visit Harrold Playing Fields this morning to see the works upgrade to the Pavilion, which the Council helped to find through the Rural Grants Scheme.
A full timetable to return to the Marston Vale Bedford-Bletchley Line from Monday16th May.
