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 ...

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

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.

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

In Bedfordshire, 13,000 homes are proposed for green belt land - higher than the number proposed for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Kent combined. Last updated Wed 22 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

EMBARGO: 22:30 Friday 15th September. Tomorrow (Saturday 16th September), Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey makes his fifth visit to Mid-Bedfordshire, where he will speak to voters in rural villages..