The protection of the river environment in Bedford Borough has been placed under threat by the Council Cabinet's proposals to scrap the policy preventing harmful development along the riverside.
Street lighting in the Royal Borough is set to become cheaper and more environmentally friendly. At a cabinet meeting on Thursday last week, councillors agreed to join with four other Berkshire local authorities to buy energy for street lighting, and bring in more modern lamps to reduce the borough's carbon footprint and cut light pollution.
Commenting on yesterday's report on the Sexual Orientation Regulations by the influential Joint Committee on Human Rights, Liberal Democrat Member of the Committee, Dr Evan Harris MP said: "This report strongly supports the tough approach with very narrow religious exemptions that are found in the Northern Ireland Regulations, and rightly calls for the same regulations to be applied to the rest of the UK."
Park Ward Liberal Democrats are delighted to learn of plans for the redevelopment of the former Charles Clark car showroom on Merridale Road, Chapel Ash. "This has long been an eyesore on the area", environmental campaigner Robin Lawrence said. The Liberal Democrats have learned that the site owners will be prosecuted unless the building is cleaned up swiftly.
Local campaigners Ian Bradwell and Chris Vaughan-Jones have both been out and about in Braunstone and Rowley Fields asking for YOUR views on the area.
Scotland is setting a course to achieve global leadership in marine power generation. The Scottish Executive has named nine marine energy projects that will share grants worth more than £13m, including one that will be the world's biggest wave energy project to date.
