Mayor Dave Hodgson has ruled out any prospect of Bedford Borough Council imposing a charge for the use of Bedford Park for the popular Bedford parkrun event, following a recent decision by another Council to introduce charges for its local Parkrun.
Local MP Tim Farron is calling on local people to sign up to the Organ Donor Register, as the statistics show that just 534 more sign-ups are needed to hit 35,000 donors in Westmorland and Lonsdale.
I am far from being an ardent royalist. The idea that someone should just inherit the position of head of state is very strange to me. However, that doesn't stop me acknowledging that the current incumbent has been doing a fantastic job since way before I was born. I've always admired her dignity, dedication and the experience that comes from dealing with Prime Ministers as diverse as Alec Douglas-Home, Tony Blair and Winston Churchill and having an unrivalled perspective of almost six and a half decades of world events. Today, MPs paid tribute to her service as they wished her a happy birthday. Here is Tim Farron's contribution in which he tells us how she gave him a good tip to deal with a common problem:
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron paid tribute to the Queen in parliament to mark the monarch's 90th birthday.
Coalition: The Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government (Biteback; £25) If journalistic reportage is the first rough draft of history, then the politicians' memoir has a good claim to be the second - at least as far as contemporary political history is concerned.
I remember a time, in the early 2000s, when it felt like every discussion on the future of the Liberal Democrats or of political parties in general mentioned the fact the RSPB had 2 million members whereas political parties were reduced to a few hundred-thousands between them. This massive organisation has now spoken out in the referendum debate. It has not taken a side but demanded that each campaign answer how the environment will be effected.