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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

Engaging STEM lessons for kids

Demand soars for active home education resources amid government debates

Stars including Bill Bailey (pictured) are backing calls for the ban to be enacted quickly - Animal News Agency

Stars including Ricky Gervais and Dame Judi Dench need help of Leighton Buzzard ...

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

Local MP and Chair of Parliament’s Woods and Trees “All-Party” Group Alex Mayer joined actor David Oakes and campaigners outside 10 Downing Street to deliver a 100,000-strong petition calling for better legal protections for the UK's oldest and best trees.

Alin Martin

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

The scene at the Palace of Westminster after the attack in March 2017, which lasted 82 seconds. 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'

Leighton Buzzard was heavily impacted by flooding earlier this month - Photo Phil Wood

Leighton Buzzard MP calls for more support for the town’s flood victims

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)

Watch as Idris Elba calls for immediate ban on zombie knives

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

Alistair Strathern MP outside The Rufus Centre, Flitwick Photo: LDRS

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

Tory MP Peter Bone. Credit: PA

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

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

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

Police have made referrals for 24 fines over a lockdown-busting party at Tory headquarters during Covid lockdown.

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

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.

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

Keir Mather. Credit: Getty

Johnny Mercer launches attack on Keir Mather - what was said

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

Ben Wallace to step down as defence secretary

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP faces eight week suspension over groping claims - what did he do?

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP to face eight-week suspension

Former UK health secretary Sajid Javid

Senior Tory Sajid Javid says MPs £86,000 salary ‘should be doubled’

Partygate probe: Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg named in privileges committee special report

Privileges committee publishes damning report on Conservative MPs

Alistair Strathern (centre). Image supplied by Labour Party

Labour's candidate for Mid Beds says constituents feel 'let down' by MP

Majority of MPs approve Privileges Committee Boris Johnson Partygate report

Boris Johnson suffers resounding defeat over ‘Partygate’ report

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

MPs find Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ Commons multiple times

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Will Boris Johnson stand as an MP in a different seat?

Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP with immediate effect

Boris Johnson resigns as MP over Partygate report

Labour shadow minister Bambos Charalambous suspended

Andrew Selous MP helping out on the rounds in Leighton Buzzard

MP goes to Parliament over 'utter failings' by Royal Mail in Leighton Buzzard

Green Party’s only MP to stand down at next election

Gina Miller, leader of the True & Fair Party, with Alan Victor, who stood as an Independent candidate in last week’s local election in Central Bedfordshire

True and Fair Party candidate wants Parliament to work the way it’s supposed to

“We want to represent the constituents”

John Guinn, Local Democracy Reporter

Longer lorries to be allowed on Britain’s roads under new laws

Andrew Bridgen MP

MP expelled from Conservative Party

Rishi Sunak could be forced to apologise to the House of Commons is he is found to have breached the MP’s code of conduct (image: Getty Images)

What time is PMQs on today?

Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the Parliament’s Standard Watchdog after allegedly failing to declare an interest

Sunak under investigation over alleged failure to declare interest

Margaret Ferrier MP was given a 270-hour community payback order for breaking lockdown rules by travelling on a train despite testing positive for Covid

Disgraced MP Margaret Ferrier facing 30 day suspension

TikTok is the world's most popular app

TikTok to be blocked from ‘all parliamentary devices’

Boris Johnson will give evidence this week on whether he misled parliament during the Partygate scandal

Watch live as Boris Johnson faces MPs at Privileges Committee

Boris Johnson will give evidence this week on whether he misled parliament during the Partygate scandal

Boris Johnson to give evidence on Partygate this week

TikTok has been banned on all UK government devices

Oliver Dowden confirms TikTok now banned on all government devices

TikTok is set to be banned on UK government devices

TikTok expected to be banned on government devices over data fears

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