Bedford’s mayor is batting for care workers to be given a pay rise by the Government, too.
NHS employees are due to receive a three per cent hike but so far nothing has been offered for low paid people who work in care services.
Cranfield University will join 19 research partners spread through 12 countries to develop a first-of-a-kind plant which couples concentrated solar power (CSP) and desalination techniques.
The €10M European Union’s Horizon 2020 funded research and innovation programme will last four years.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is one of the common viruses that cause coughs and colds in winter and is the most common cause of bronchiolitis in children under two.
In the UK, the RSV season typically begins in the autumn – earlier than the adult flu season – and runs throughout the winter.
Four competing bronze statuettes of RSPB founder Emily Williamson (1855-1936) are to tour the British Isles in a bid to raise public awareness of an unsung conservation heroine.
The Emily Williamson ‘maquettes’ will be making stops at eight iconic birdwatching reserves the length and breadth of the country. Where they will gather public votes and share her inspirational story.
The winning design will be turned into a life size bronze statue to commemorate this forgotten eco pioneer.
Bedfordshire’s new police and crime commissioner is in a hurry to publish his plan for the next three years and it is putting strain on a watchdog committee to respond in time.
Festus Akinbusoye made a promise during his successful election campaign in May that his police and crime plan would be up and running in 100 days, prompting members to complain that they are being rushed.
A different strategy is being used by health managers to persuade young people across Bedfordshire to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a meeting heard.
Currently only one in three in the 18- to 29-year-old age group is having the jab, BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group’s governing body was told.
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