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Text and/or other creative content from Bedford was copied or moved into Transport in Bedford with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

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proposed split for the Transport section

I propose that the transport section is split out into a separate 'Transport in Bedord' article as with Transport in Ipswich, Transport in Luton and Transport in Manchester etc to give space for additional information. PeterEastern (talk) 12:39, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the transport section of this article is already too big, it needs its own article. Bleaney (talk) 02:55, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, bolding doing now. Tiggerjay (talk) 01:06, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Crime

I'm new at editing wikipedia and I was wondering about the crime section. It basically states that Bedford has a low crime rate, then goes on to list a few one off events. That seems a bit of an odd way of writing for an encyclopedia. Should it be re-edited to give some crime stats and more of an overview? Or am I missing something? BedsBookworm (talk) 10:59, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are right, it would be better to have some sourced statistics and an overview (perhaps crime and policing). There is no hard and fast rule on this but I would think only nationally reported crimes are notable enough to be mentioned.--SabreBD (talk) 11:59, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ive always thought it odd that Bedford has a separate 'crime' section, when other more notable crime hot spots do not! Bleaney (talk) 14:14, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As the crime section seems to be little more than an indiscriminate collection of facts and the comment above indicates this is unusual, I've removed it for now. I hope this meets with approval. BedsBookworm (talk) 14:29, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I approve! Bleaney (talk) 14:32, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. BedsBookworm (talk) 14:34, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Does this have a place on the article

A number of national news sites have been reporting civil disorder in Bedford last night (involving a group of 150 people) following the England vs Italy football match in Euro 2012. Is this notable enough to appear on this article? the links are links to news articles about this subject. [1] [2] 213.121.4.45 (talk) 14:28, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]