Politics

The East of England region mainly followed the national trend in the EU elections - electing three candidates from the Brexit Party.

Sandy Town Council is looking to co-opt new members to fill vacant seats representing Pinnacle and Fallowfield Wards. The town clerk and existing members of the council are happy to talk to potential candidates about what is involved; contact members direct using the details on the website and/or contact the clerk via the town council office to arrange a visit and find out more.

The new Independent councillors took their seats in the main chamber for the first full council meeting since their remarkable victory at the May election.

A departed Central Beds councillor has been censured by its standards sub-committee for breaches of “integrity”, “accountability” and “honesty” after spreading a rumour, it has been revealed.

“It’s unbelievable really.” That was the reaction from United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) candidate Pat Hamill after making electoral history in Central Bedfordshire.

The Tories haven taken a dent in their majority across Central Bedfordshire as voters elected a new council made up of 41 Conservative councillors, 13 Independents, three Liberal Democrats, one Labour councillor and one UK Independence Party councillor.

A Luton man who sent threatening and racially aggravated emails to seven MPs has today been jailed.

Rother District Council is looking at how it uses social media in enforcement investigations following new national guidance, councillors have heard.

A standards sub-committee hearing is to investigate complaints made against a Central Bedfordshire Councillor.

South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous has won £5,000 in damages and the cost of legal fees against the Sunday Times for wrongly accusing him of buying quills for artwork on his Parliamentary Expenses.

Politicians were asked to vote on eight possible options for Britain’s Brexit future in Parliament on Wednesday night - and just like the rest of the country, Bedfordshire’s MPs were divided on their opinions.

In another tumultuous week in Parliament, the MP covering Chronicle country has resigned.

North East Beds MP Alistair Burt says he will only vote to leave the EU with a deal, after yesterday’s defeat of the Government on its latest Brexit proposals.

South Cambridgeshire MP Heidi Allen has quit the Tory party it has just been announced.