Duck pond, cricket pitch, a church and chocolate box cottages. The quintessential features of England’s villages will, ...

A new survey of rural households has revealed consumers are increasingly concerned over the cost of switching to greener heating systems in their home. The survey of just under 1,500 households ...

Bedfordshire has a secret equivalent to the covetable villages of the Cotswolds, and they really are delightful ...

A farming leader for Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire has welcomed the government’s plans to invest £800,000 in tackling rural crime but urged for more action on livestock worrying and fly-tipping.

The next election offers an opportunity for Labour to persuade rural Britain to back them in considerably larger numbers. By-elections in 2023 have been record-breaking. In July, Selby and Ainsty saw ...

Police and Crime Commissioner John Tizard has claimed that officers are solving more crime than in previous years – with more ...

The first dedicated parish constables in Bedfordshire are being brought in to try to reduce the amount of rural crime. PCC Olly Martins has started Operation Salcoats, bringing together special ...

Bedfordshire Police’s rural crime action team has increased from six to 10, with one sergeant and nine police constables. Stuart Grant, a wildlife crime officer with the force, ...

A report by the think-tank, UK DayOne, has recommended that homes for up to 350,000 people should be built in Tempsford in Bedfordshire, five miles south of St Neots.

Ten suspected victims of modern slavery have been found living in a farm building in rural Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Police said officers were flagged down by two men on a road near Bedford at ...