Well, for the least predictable election for a generation, it was mainly quite predictable.The Lib Dem surge all but evaporated , the Conservatives did well but not well enough and Labour did badly.

How did we get here? We, the oldest Parliamentary democracy in the world, seem to have got ourselves into the position where we do not have a Government worth saving, or an opposition worth promoting.

We were enjoying a family Easter break on Madeira, one of the world’s most enchanting, and most surprising islands

Monday April 19...This morning we woke up to be told that there would be no flights until 7pm this evening. We had to pack and leave one villa and head off to another. Gone are the days of two t-shirts,

Group editor Steve Lowe, along with his wife and three children, have been on a week’s holiday in Madeira, over the Easter break. Like hundreds of thousands of others, they find, thanks to a volcano in Iceland, they cannot get back. So what are they up to?

Steve Lowe is on holiday so Bedfordshire on Sunday Editor Chris Gill fills in

The debate over climate change seems to be hotting up - unlike the climate

I had a good idea this week.I do not get many, so pay attention.I was listening on the radio to doctors complaining – there’s a shock – about hospital performance targets

28 March: It is not very often that you see half of Bedford’s Establishment standing on a hill outside Cranfield with their wellies on and shovels in hand

March 21: Save our libraries, is the call going out across the country. Or, at least, across council offices charged with providing public libraries, who want to raise the profile of such places