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Former head of the Home Civil Service Lord Bob Kerslake has died. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer publishes tax details

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street after reportedly £6 million deal.

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock are facing a lawsuit over Test and Trace - here's...

Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street following the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on September 15, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Boris Johnson’s controversial Internal Market...

Colin might feel like part of the family - but how well do you know him? (Photo: M&S)

13 things you (probably) didn't know about Colin the Caterpillar as the cake tur...

Harding runs England’s heavily criticised NHS Test and Trace system (Photo: PA)

Dido Harding has been appointed to run the new national body that will replace P...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the furlough scheme as a response to economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

A quarter of UK workers are now furloughed - and unemployment levels could rocke...

Boris Johnson's choice of name for son could mark out his future

Here's whether the Prime Minister will take time off after the birth of his baby...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is recuperating at his official country retreat after being discharged from hospital (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Chequers country estate - where Boris Johnson...

Andrew Selous MP

Andrew Selous: Despite Brexit, we were right to hold EU referendum

ONS figures on gender pay

Women working for free for the rest of the year according to charity

Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to dock benefits over unpaid truancy fines

Cameron: ‘Parents who fail to pay truancy fines to have child benefit docked’

Ten years on a minute's silence will be held to remember the victims of the London 7/7 bombings

VIDEO: Nation pauses to remember 7/7 atrocity 10 years on

PCC Olly Martins

Breaking: Voters reject Beds Police tax hike

Property news

Cameron: Government primed to take action if housing bubble fears are realised

The Uprising launch at Parliament. ©Stephen Simpson/LNP

Bedfordshire Uprising launches as independent charity

TRAVEL: Battlefields of Belgium and France

It’s time for young local businesses to step on the gas with Local Business Acce...

The Prime Minister as a dinner guest? No thanks

Uni chief delighted to accept job OFFA

Uni boss is still waiting for OFFA

Row over new role for uni Professor

Hope for local buyers

Family recipes add flavour for RAF fundraiser

Alan Dee: Fat tax idea won’t butter my parsnips

Alan Dee: Parent power puts free schools in freefall
BACK to school time is upon us, and this term we’re expected to get our heads around yet another pie in the sky educational initiative dreamed up by politicians with little experience with the sharp end of state education.

PM praises Beds police in suppressing riots

Jobs: £25m fund for advanced and higher apprenticeships

New support for business announced