Martin Heath

Taxpayers will fork out £3,400 per day for a best value inspection of Bedford Borough Council, run by elected Conservative mayor, Tom Wootton.

Bedford Borough Green councillor Doug McMurdo says budget is reckless. Finance portfolio holder Marc Frost says it is “controlled and transparent”.

I’m at the Bedford Borough full council Meeting where the budget will be debated later. A motion opposing an East West Rail multi-storey car park in Queen’s Park has just been passed.

The Hertfordshire CC cabinet panel split 6-all on closure of Albury Primary School so chair used his casting vote to recommend shutting the school.

I am with parents from two schools earmarked for closure at Herts County Council - the meeting is starting 45 mins late because they’re struggling with technology.

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has become the second authority in Hertfordshire to decide to ask for this year’s elections to be cancelled.

At the Blue Light Hub in Milton Keynes for a meeting on plans to shut 2 fire stations (including Stokenchurch - pictured) and remove 8 fire engines. Updates later.

Will Central Bedfordshire Council scrap the “café tax” - a charge for putting tables outside - tomorrow? Cafés in Leighton Buzzard don’t want it.

Stevenage borough councillor Mason Humberstone has defected from Labour to Reform UK. I have been chasing him for comment throughout today.

@M_Humberstone please contact me re defection

Tuesday is decision day for people like Thomas Howe, whose mother is trying to save his day centre in Buckinghamshire.

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This is TERRIFYING and needs sharing EVERYWHERE I have been sent this post from Facebook by a very concerned local A woman is crying out for help after she is being terrorized by immigrants that have been moved in next door Listen to her horrific ordeal and the lack of police action Migrants coming through her attic into her home, they are stalking her, also following her saying 'sexy girl alone' also staring through her windows while children are in the house How long before we read something serious has happened to her? The last 6 months she has gone through hell and made numerous reports to police and nothing has happened She's now considering putting her house on the market for her own safety This is what England has become, I worry so much for this woman's safety Post is taken from the Fleetwood Defenders group on Facebook which has been set up in response to this woman's very frightening ordeal, share everywhere please🙏🏻

@b0bbybux @BBCNews A fair point.

⁦@heathm50⁩ why has it become normal in the media to refer to someone being on the “floor”? A floor is an artificial normally raised surface that sits above the ground. So, this person was on the ground, footballers fall to the ground, ok?🙄@BBCNews bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Congratulations to a brave woman who started rowing at the University of Northampton and went on to win Olympic gold. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Will Kettering finally get its new hospital? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Local scout joins 6,000 scouts for jamboree in Norway bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@WabiSabiBob1884 Hello. Can we take a still from your video for BBC Online?

Kettering’s on fire! Word on the street is it’s an insurance job, but apparently there are/were people in the building.