The Bedford College group, the parent of Central Bedfordshire College has its first cohort of 13 engineering apprentices starting on the 7th of February at its Leighton Buzzard campus during apprenticeship week.

The Government has announced that more than 1,100 grassroots sports projects are to benefit from £93 million of funding, including new pitches, changing rooms, and floodlights, with South West Bedfordshire set to benefit from £2,700 in funding.

South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, visited the Leighton Buzzard based and multi award winning wine company “The Online Tasting Company” last week. The Online Tasting Company are experts in small wine portions and package wines into ultra-lightweight 100ml ecoSIP containers.

South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, has written urgently to the East of England Ambulance Trust to ask them to undertake an immediate review of their ‘end of shift’ policy which resulted in a response vehicle on duty in Leighton Buzzard not being sent to very seriously injured victims of a

I hope you were able to enjoy a happy Christmas with family and loved ones. I’m acutely conscious that for people in Gaza, for the families of the hostages and for people in Ukraine and many other parts of the world, this would have been a very difficult Christmas.

I raised with the Cabinet Minister the urgent need for roads on new housing estates to be adopted quickly to maintain road safety.

Today I raised with the Minister how important it is for large house builders to follow through on their promises of health infrastructure that they advertise to buyers.

South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous and Minister Bim Afolami, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, visited the Lidl Regional Distribution Centre in Houghton Regis today. It is the largest Lidl warehouse in the world, the size of 33 football pitches and can hold 70,000 pallets.

South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, yesterday asked the Government what extra help Central Bedfordshire could receive following last week’s flooding. 

The exchange in Hansard was as follows, 

Andrew Selous 

I asked the Leader of the House where Central Bedfordshire Council can get help to protect residents who are affected by flooding, like the ones I visited the other week.