A council leader says an authority including multiple councils will be more powerful.
Work to expand fitness facilities at a "fairly dated 1980s" council-run gym is given the go-ahead.
The council says the block of 35 flats is still not safe to occupy and an insurance claim is pending.
The spaces will be in place for two years to allow for improvements at the school, the council says.
Central Bedfordshire Council is funding the new leisure facility in Leighton Buzzard.
Outreach workers offer essential supplies to cope with the heat and a temporary bed for the night.
Independents and local residents' parties enjoy growing political influence in the East of England.
Quest Park wants to build one of the largest data centres in the UK next to the Universal site.
Plans have been submitted for a GP surgery in a town which has been without one since 2009.
