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As Energy Prices Rocket, it Pays to Know About our ‘Warmer Beds’ Scheme

Now seems a good time to try to raise awareness of Bedford Borough Council's excellent 'Warmer Beds' home insulation Scheme. For a start, it's Energy Saving Week this week. It's also finally beginning to get colder after the 'Indian Summer'' experienced over recent weeks. Another key reason why I want to make sure as many local residents as possible know about this scheme and just how it can help households is the widely-reported rocketing cost of energy, which is only going to make it harder and harder for people to stay warm in their homes this winter.

26 Oct 2011
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Big drop in University Applications - the fees or what?

Anyone who read the papers today will have noticed the headlines of the 'shocking' reduction in the number of applications to universities: applicants from within the UK has fallen by 11.9% and applicants from within the EU has dropped by 9.3%. They go on to quote even more stats such as

26 Oct 2011
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COVANTA SHOCK

It was with shock and sadness that we learnt recently of the crass decision of the unelected quango, the IPC, to approve the plans to erect the MASSIVE Incinerator at Rookery Pit. Your local Liberal Democrat Councillors have been fighting long and hard to get these plans stopped along with many local residents and campaigners.

26 Oct 2011
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Bypass Refused!

The government's decision to refuse Wiltshire Council permission to build the Westbury Eastern bypass was announced in summer 2009.

26 Oct 2011
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