After visiting the local Co-op in Katherine's Drive I contacted the police and asked that they talk to local shops and clamp down on shoplifting and violence against shop workers.
South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, visited the new Checkley Wood wind turbine being installed this week. It is, jointly with another turbine in Bristol, the most powerful onshore wind turbine in England. It will generate 4.1 MW, enough to supply 2,500 average homes.
The Minister of State for Housing, Rachel Maclean MP, came to Leighton Buzzard and Houghton Regis on Thursday, accompanied by the Chief Executive of Central Bedfordshire Council, Marcel Coiffait, to see first-hand the impact on local provision of services, particularly health in our area.
Last week I raised in the House how Bernie Ecclestone's back tax of £652.6 million should be used to fulfil commitments to build health infrastructure.
The three policing issues which my constituents have raised with me the most over the last month have been dangerous illegal motorcyclists, shoplifting often accompanied with threats to shop-workers, and the danger and distress caused by car meets which lead to illegal drag racing along many of o