Former Cllr Alan Pugh dies
Alan Pugh, 1940 - 2017.
DMC
21 Feb 2017
National News
Business rate hikes will hit local tourist industry - Farron
Thousands of local hotels, pubs, museums and camping sites could be set to see their business rates soar once new changes take effect from April, in a change which local MP Tim Farron has slammed as "massively damaging" for the local tourist economy.
21 Feb 2017
Savings Programme to Help Council Tackle Funding Crisis
Bedford Borough Council is set to decide on a new £multi-million savings programme which will make services more accessible and provide over £10million of savings to help fill the shortfall caused by cuts in government funding.
21 Feb 2017
Anyone for Tennis?
There are 29 public tennis courts maintained by the borough at twelve sites These are currently available free of charg...
21 Feb 2017
Call for Wiltshire to join battle against plastic waste
A motion debated at Wiltshire Council's February meeting called for WC to take action against Single Use Plastic (SUP). Cllrs Chivers and Clark said, "it is time for Wiltshire to take a lead on this issue." They pointed out that half of the plastic we use, we use just once and throw away, and that one million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed annually from plastic in our oceans.
21 Feb 2017
Fighting for footpaths
Cllrs Oldrieve and Hubbard put a motion to February's council meeting calling on WC to do more to look after the county's decaying footpath network.
21 Feb 2017