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Alex Mayer MP

New driving test rule changes to cut waiting times welcomed by MP

Alex Mayer MP

6,700 local workers set for pay boost as living wage rise clears final hurdle

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Clockwise from top left: Central Bedfordshire Council, Luton Borough Council, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson at a family hub in Bedford, Bedford Borough Council

Councils respond to scrapping of two child benefit cap

Alex Mayer MP

Small business Saturday - love your high street, local MP urges

Evie Olson, pictured with her horse Arti, has been named as a Duke of Edinburgh young ambassador

Leighton Buzzard teenager selected as ambassador for Duke of Edinburgh award

Alex Mayer MP

Tree-mendous! New National Forest on our doorstep

Alex Mayer MP in Parliament

Political opinion: Two weeks of fireworks is bang out of order, says MP

The cost of renting property in Central Bedfordshire rose by six per cent in the past year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics

Rise in cost of renting property in Central Bedfordshire over past year

Alex Mayer MP

Political opinion: 45,000 extra Bedfordshire NHS appointments welcomed by local ...
Patients across Bedfordshire have benefitted from 45,000 extra NHS appointments in the past year, new figures show.
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Local MP opening a new spinney at Dovery Academy in Leighton Buzzard

Alex Mayer: Supporting working families

Pictured is Alex Mayer MP with postmaster Elliot Jacobs (left) and Alan Jones from the Post Office

Leighton Buzzard Post Office to stay put, confirm new owners

Alex Mayer MP

Alex Mayer MP: 97 years of votes for women

Britain is facing a swimming crisis - 9m adults don’t know how to swim

Alex Mayer MP

Don’t bottle it, local MP urges Minister in packaging debate

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Park home owners go to Parliament over 10% commission rule

Schools may soon only be able to require families to buy three branded uniform items

How school uniforms rules could change for four million pupils

File photo of a man breaking a cigarette

Funding boost from government to help smokers in Central Bedfordshire quit

Alex Mayer MP

Thousands more driving tests to cut waiting times in Dunstable and Leighton Buzz...

Alex Mayer MP

Hen heroes deserve a fairer crack this Easter says local MP

Alex Mayer MP in Parliament

Local MP calls for “Churchill Time” ahead of clock change

Alex Mayer MP at Dovery Academy

International Forest Day: Dovery Academy pupils dig deep to plant new spinney

Alex Mayer MP

Crime crackdown – off-road bikes to be seized as new Bill introduced

Katie Brett and Lorraine Beavers with a photo of Sasha Marsden.

My sister was murdered after fake job interview: MP backs Sasha's Law

The House of Commons' Education Committee took a deep dive into the effects of screen time on children last year

11 ways phone use impacts children, from school to mental health

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Demand soars for active home education resources amid government debates

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Stars including Ricky Gervais and Dame Judi Dench need help of Leighton Buzzard ...
Celebrity animal advocates including Ricky Gervais and Dame Judi Dench are calling for Leighton Buzzard residents to help them pressure the government on trophy hunting.
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Alex Mayer MP with Grant Palmer operator

Tell Parliament how to improve buses, urges Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP Al...

Alex Mayer MP outside Downing Street with the 100,000 strong Living Legends petition calling for legal protections for ancient trees

Time to tree-cycle this Twelfth Night, urges local MP

Campaigners both for and against turn out as MPs prepare to vote on the proposed assisted dying bill in Parliament.

Countries that have legalised assisted dying as MPs vote on bill

Katie Brett is campaigning again to keep David Minto in prison and to change the lenient sentencing appeals law. Inset: 'Evil' David Minto

I'm trying to keep the man who murdered my sister behind bars

Alex Mayer MP at 10 Downing Street.

Living Legends: MP takes 100,000-strong tree petition to Downing Street

If passed the bill means that terminally ill adults in England and Wales who have six months to live will legally have the choice to end their life.

Assisted dying bill UK: What is the proposed law?

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Alex Mayer MP appointed to Parliament’s Transport Select Committee

Kim Leadbeater MP to introduce bill to legalise assisted dying.

Watch: Kim Leadbeater MP formally introduces assisted dying bill

Protester speaks at winter fuel cuts rally.

Watch: Rally against winter fuel cuts held outside Parliament

A report by the Institute for Government has provided recommendations for how devolution can be completed across the whole of England by the end of the current Parliament

Recommendation to bring devolution to areas including Luton and MK

A report by the Institute for Government has provided recommendations for how devolution can be completed across the whole of England by the end of the current Parliament

Recommendation to bring devolution to areas including Luton and MK

Rishi Sunak has called a general election for July 4.

Watch: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces July 4 General Election

MP returns to Parliament following sepsis quadruple amputation.

Watch: MP returns to Parliament following sepsis quadruple amputation

MP Andrew Selous

Lack of artists’ work and exhibition space raised in Parliament

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Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Westminster Bridge terror attack: Police remember victims 7 years on

Concerns have been raised over cuts to BBC local radio services

Moving BBC Concert Orchestra out of London 'didn't make sense'

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Leighton Buzzard MP calls for more support for the town’s flood victims
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Idris Elba stands in front of an installation of over 200 bundles of clothing representing the lives lost to Knife crime in the UK as he calls on the Government to take immediate action to prevent serious youth violence at Parliament Square on January 08, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Don't Stop Your Future)

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Watch moment Wilko boss tells MP she 'let down' staff and shoppers

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New MP reacts to being part of history “not once, but twice in a week”

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Breaking Tory MP 'should be suspended over bullying and sexual misconduct'

Fines to be issued over Covid-19 lockdown-busting Tory HQ party

Breaking Fines to be issued over Covid-19 lockdown-busting Tory HQ party

Former SNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron, left, who has defected to the Tories, and SNP leader Humza Yousaf. Credit: PA/Getty

Breaking SNP MP defects to Tories after claiming 'toxic and bully treatment'

The protest was one of more than 30 events taking place in Britain – plus two in Spain – on what was dubbed a “Day for Rejoin”. Pictured here is Steve Bray.

Breaking Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray ‘wrestled out’ of Tory conference

Lucy Letby received a rare whole life order after being convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016.

Criminals must face victims for sentencing after Lucy Letby’s no-show

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Ben Wallace will step down as defence secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle

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