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Cllr Adam Zerny, Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council

COLUMN: Getting the right homes in the right places is essential

File photo of a Blue Badge on a car dashboard. Used for illustrative purposes only. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Council crackdown on Blue Badge abuse

Aerial shot of houses.

Find out how much your council tax will go up from April 1

Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

'Council spent £16m on a bridge to nowhere. It's a dangerous mess'

£16m bridge leads to 'dangerous' deep mud...it looks like a warzone

A car dealer must pay more than £9,000 in fines and costs after a visitor to his premises was seriously injured when he fell down an unprotected drop.

Man falls down 6ft drop and gets 'seriously' injured at car dealership

A road left so badly damaged by a landslip it was closed to cars can't be fixed properly - as it's still moving a YEAR later.

Britain's 'wonkiest road' destroyed by landslip finally set to reopen

Land Rover driver rams workman after ignoring road closure

Land Rover driver rams workman and sends him 'flying into a bush'

Chair of Leighton Linslade Health Provision Group

Column: Health Matters

2025 awards

Three volunteers to be recognised with Community Volunteer Award
At a meeting of Leighton-Linslade Town Council held on 27 January 2025, it was agreed to award the 2025 Community Volunteer Awards to three very deserving recipients: Sandra Johnson, Marion Gogan and Beverley Power.
Sarah Sandiford

Between January 2023 and June 2024, nearly 5,000 dogs and over 20,000 cats were reported missing.

How to find a missing dog: 6 tips on what to do if your dog gets lost

Worcester City Council insists the tree in Columbia Drive poses no immediate risk and has issued a protection order for it. Inset: Chris Davis

'Menacing' 100ft tree could crush my home but council won't chop it

Peter and Patricia Clarke outside their home in Grange Park, Swindon, which has been flooded 20 times over the past three years.

Our home has flooded 20 times...it's like Niagara Falls when it rains

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

The aftermath of the blaze at the Bristol Avenue tip

Video shows devastating tip blaze caused by a single e-bike battery

Phil Austin has built a lighthouse in the middle of Salford - 30 miles away from the nearest coast.

I was refused planning permission for a home...so I built a LIGHTHOUSE

Furious resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire, is embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row.

Our council want £100k to fix road with 32 potholes...we're furious!

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Betty Calloway (90) from Stirchley, who has issues with an overgrown council hedge that has turned her dream move into a nightmare.

Overgrown hedge is 'swallowing' my garden...I'm fuming

Fireworks. Image supplied by Central Bedfordshire Council.

Crackdown on unsafe and illegal fireworks in Central Bedfordshire

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Help shape future services for people affected by domestic abuse

Retired bank worker, Nick Wisniewski, 66, is the last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' which is all due to be knocked down - but he's refusing to move.

'I'm not moving!' Council move to evict man on derelict estate

School classroom.

Watch: School absence fines rise details explained

Central Bedford Council has approved a new Sustainability Plan and will work closely with residents and businesses to achieve its new goals.

Central Beds Council tackles climate change with new Sustainability Plan

Alex Mayer MP (right) with Emma Hardy MP (left) in Leighton Buzzard

Flood Action Week: Local MP urges climate resilience

Alex Mayer MP (right) with Emma Hardy MP (left) in Leighton Buzzard

Alex Mayer, MP: Climate crisis is breaking records
Monthly column by Alex Mayer, MP for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency.
Alex Mayer MP

Video grab of a rat infested alleyway off Franciscan Road in Tooting, south London. October 2 2024.

I passed a swarm of rats on the school run...it was disgusting!

A hedgehog rescued from flood waters at Waterdell in Leighton Buzzard. Image: Midshires Search and Rescue

Council and partners work 'round the clock' to help flood victims

West Sussex landscaper Harry Smith-Haggett, 22, has been filling in Horsham's potholes with flowers dubbed 'pretty potholes'.

'I made my roads pretty!' Pothole flowerbed service goes viral

The White House

Do you know a volunteer who deserves an award?

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted.

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate

A desperate man claims a council is doing "nothing" after his mould-ridden flat left a relative hospitalised.

Inside our mould-ridden council flat which left a relative in hospital

Muktar Singh, 55

Huge mountain of fly-tipped rubbish attracts 'rats the size of cats'

Some of the items available during the event

Children’s centre provides school uniforms for almost 200 children

File photo of a doctor taking a man's blood pressure

Council slammed for "ignoring" plea for improved healthcare facilities

(Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

Lime trees growing either side of High Street in Henley-in-Arden, Warks., had their tops hacked off without notice leaving locals “devastated”.

Residents left furious after council "butchers" trees to save cash

Thousands of households to receive direct payments of up to £500

The events start next month

Help your child be a marvellous maker this summer

1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

firefighters tackle blaze at Warbreck Hill Road

Watch: Firefighters tackle huge blaze at former DWP office

Ben Newman The Spudman, who has built an online community of two million people on TikTok selling jacket potatoes at his trailer in Tamworth.

Watch: Tiktok's Spudman gets kicked off his patch by local council
TikTok sensation Spudman has spoke of his frustration after being booted off his pitch where he has been trading from for the last 21 years by the local council.
Lucinda Herbert

Gas cannister exploded after being incorrectly thrown out with household rubbish

Watch: Gas cannister explodes and is sent flying at binman

Tim Webb, 66, is trying to highlight the pothole issue - by photographing toys at some of the 'greatest' pothole sites in his local area.

Pothole tourist turns road defects into mini works of art

The demolition of Cliff Farm in Trimingham. May 10 2024.

Watch: Farmhouse hanging over cliff edge gets demolished

Rae Boxley, 51, has been trapped in her home by badgers but the council won't help because they are a protected specie

Badgers have kept me prisoner in my mouldy home for 12 years

Michael Perkins is fighting for right to park on his own drive in Warndon, Worcester

Watch: Council ban owner of 'eyesore' motorhome from parking on drive

Before work started

Scouts clear footpath

Destiny Mitchell, 26, is homeless and has turned a bus stop into a temporary home on the Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham.

Watch: Our home is a disused bus shelter...it's going to be demolished

Protest sign at a roundabout on Eastern Way in Daventry - A series of protest signs highlighting the Daventry pothole problem by the mystery campaigner.

Mystery pothole artist mocks council with funny road signs

The huge pothole on Trinity Close in Stratford-upon-Avon, in front of the Holy Trinity Parish Centre and opposite to the Holy Trinity Church entrance. Local resident Matt Beacham, 57, with his sausage dog Richmond (inset).

Video shows dog going for swim in UK's oldest pothole measuring 9ft

Shocking footage from a bodycam captured the moment a raging van driver threw a traffic warden to the ground after he ticketed his illegally parked van. Picture: Coventry City Council / SWNS

Watch: Raging van driver attacks traffic warden

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