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Written by: Alan Horn
After retiring from a career in business that included living and working overseas in Italy and USA, he concentrated on documentary photography which led to a two-week exhibition in Norwich highlighting the plight of the Happisburgh village community in Norfolk as it succumbs to the North Sea. The exhibition is now on permanent display in the village and the work has also been featured in Les Echos, a Parisien newspaper.
Alan now concentrates on helping BedsGOVET to build its reputation as a force to improve the quality of the water in the River Great Ouse
Qualifications: BSc BA (Hons) MBA ARPS
October Beds Independent Column
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Outfall Safari – we need your help
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April Article – New Data Portal
Beds Independent May Column
Mohammad Yasin MP for Bedford and Kempston answers our questions
Bedford Independent June Column – Mohammad Yasin MP (Labour) engaged with BedsGOVET
Recent government initiatives
What is the Government doing about our water and the sewage spills?
October Beds Independent Column
New Partnerships For Ongoing Success The past two months have seen our charity BedsGOVET moving forwards with new partnerships with both the Environment Agency and Bedford Borough Council. We have also been busy setting up a new website which has just been launched...
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Outfall Safari – we need your help
We are going on a Safari, but not as you know it! Our aim is to work with the Bedfordshire community to spot pipes and outfalls that lead to run off pollution into our local River Great Ouse. Why we need your help The reason we need your help is that through...
March Data
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April Article – New Data Portal
How clean is your river? New Data Portal keeps you informed. We have created a new, easy-to-use BedsGOVET Data Portal, which can be found on our website to help you find out how safe it is to use the river. We test the river every month to ascertain the water quality...
Beds Independent May Column
New Volunteers hit the River On a beautiful spring day, new volunteers enjoyed a morning of getting to know each other and their mentors on a BedsGOVET training day, held at Harrold Country Park for ease of access to the water. The training, run by Trustee Henry...
Mohammad Yasin MP for Bedford and Kempston answers our questions
Questions for Mohammad Yasin 1. Water companies still have the sole right to monitor their spillages. It is the equivalent of students marking their own homework. We know that Anglian Water misled the Environment Agency on the number of “Dry Day” spills. Why is this...
Bedford Independent June Column – Mohammad Yasin MP (Labour) engaged with BedsGOVET
Mohammad Yasin MP on Sewage, Water Quality and Regulation We met with Mohammad at the water’s edge of the Embankment to share with him our deep concerns about the quality of the River Great Ouse and the continuation of spillages into the river. We showed him our...
Recent government initiatives
October Beds Independent Column
December results
October results
February results
Outfall Safari – we need your help
March Data
April Article – New Data Portal