As news emerges that Stewartby is on the brink of being chosen as the County Council's preferred location for a new waste incinerator, the shameful scandal of poor air quality in the village continues.
A Liberal Democrat proposal to tackle the environmental cost of throw away shopping bags has received overwhelming support at a Bedford Borough Council meeting. The successful motion could lead to a ban, a levy or a deposit scheme for throw away shopping bags in the borough.
The Liberal Democrats have been judged the greenest of the three main political parties in an audit by Britain's environmental groups.
Menzies Campbell has launched a petition calling for the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq. The petition comes after Campbell wrote to Gordon Brown last month backing calls by military chiefs for British forces to pull out of Iraq because they can "achieve nothing" by staying.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have called for effective action to deal with unauthorised traveller encampments in Bedford Borough.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats are calling for a public consultation which could lead to a ban on environmentally harmful carrier bags across the Borough. The Lib Dems want to put to the public the question of whether a ban, a levy or a deposit scheme for all plastic and paper shopping bags given out at retailers in the Borough should be introduced.
