Genial if geeky Dave Gorman has made his name on the comedy circuit with high concept shows that really connect with an audience, from his first big hit – when he took on a bet to meet more than 50 people who shared his unremarkable name, wherever they were in the world – to other adventures that set him a quest and get him asking questions.

Now he’s building a new show and he’s got three ‘work in progress’ dates lined up at the Court Theatre in Tring.

It won’t be completely raw – he’ll already have three other tryouts in Windsor under his belt by the time he rolls up at Pendley – and if you’re a real fan you could be tempted to book for more than one night and see how the show develops.

The £15 tickets were already scarce as the Gazette went to press, but there are performances next Wednesday and Thursday, June 5 and 6, and on Monday, June 10.

Find out more – and about other big names coming to Tring over the summer – online at www.get-stuffed.biz

Screen Build

The man behind Are You Dave Gorman? Googlewhack Adventure and Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation, hosts a series of different work-in-progress shows with a little help from his laptop and a big screen. Known as one of comedy’s most innovative thinkers, all manner of topics will be discussed as Dave works out what’s funny, and what’s funnier, for this brand new show.

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Hemel Town FC forward Victor Osobu will be passing on his football tips to youngsters at a series of summer training sessions.

The Hemel Hempstead Town FC Soccer Schools will run for five days each on the club’s 3G pitches.

Open to boys and girls aged between five and 12, the course will offer youngsters the opportunity to learn, develop and have fun during the holidays with the club’s fully-trained coaching team.

Players will take part in drills and games to improve their core football skills including ball control, passing, dribbling, shooting, heading and game play.

Each day will finish with small-sided games to give the players a chance to show off their newly-honed skills.

The coaching team will be headed up by Victor, and there will be drop-ins from Hemel Hempstead Town’s first team players and occasional visits from Tudors manager Dean Brennan.

Places on the course are £12.50 per day, or £50 for the full five days.

To confirm your child’s place, please phone Victor on 07432 720526 or email info@hemelfc.com

In a victory for old folk, council chiefs have agreed to bend the rules on its strict clear corridors policy in sheltered housing complexes.

Dacorum Borough Council has announced that the policy will be amended after listening to tenants.

It comes after uproar among pensioners after they were ordered to strip their corridors of homely touches such as pictures and pot plants.

Councillor Margaret Griffiths, who oversees housing, said: “We absolutely take the safety of our residents as our first concern. Having met with residents, along with the local fire service, we think we have found a compromise where residents can keep some pictures and furniture in corridors.”

Council officers will work with each supported housing scheme over the next year and liaise with tenants to find out what may be kept in corridors under the new rules.

It is likely to include putting pictures on walls behind Perspex to make them safe in the event of a fire.

Work costing £150,000 to resurface Berkhamsted’s London Road will begin on Wednesday.

It means the road will be closed between 8pm and 5am and is expected to take three nights to complete.

Access for householders and businesses with no alternative route to their premises will be maintained via a gateman who who will allow vehicles to enter when it is safe to do so.

Councillor Terry Douris, who oversees highways, said: “We are sorry for any disruption or inconvenience caused by these essential maintenance works but the work has to be carried out while the road is closed for the safety of our workers and all road users. We would ask you to allow extra time for any journeys you make while the work is in progress.”

Any changes to the proposed start date, duration or working hours due to unforeseen circumstances will be announced on information boards and at www.hertsdirect.org/roadworks

Bus services will also be affected, for details visit www.intalink.org.uk

As outgoing Mayor of Dacorum Bert Chapman said his farewells after a second spell as the borough’s first citizen, he could look back on a packed 12 months of flying the flag and fundraising.

He told fellow councillors how impressed he had been during the year by the vibrancy of the borough’s voluntary sector, how much he had enjoyed the many visits to schools made during his term in office, and looked back at the frantic social and ceremonial whirl that accompanied last summer’s celebrations of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 2012 Olympics in London.

And after paying tribute to the unstinting support provided by his Civic Centre team, community and business supporters and his wife Shirley, he told Councillor Penny Hearn, who now wears the mayor’s chain: “My wish is that your year will be as rewarding and happy as ours has been.”

During his mayoral year, Councillor Chapman’s nominated charity was Rennie Grove Hospice Care, and his final official engagement was to officially open the charity’s refitted shop in Tring High Street after a facelift.

During the course of the year, Councillor Chapman helped raise a total of £18,000 for the cause, formerly known as Iain Rennie Grove House Hospice Care. He told council colleagues: “The work they do is so important.

“The help the nurses and volunteers give to our families when they are at a low point in their life is valued by all.”

The charity’s director of fundraising and marketing Gillian Barnett said: “It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Bert and Shirley throughout this year and we are so grateful to them for everything they have done.

“£18,000 will fund approximately 900 hours of nursing care and will help more than 700 local patients and families.

“That is a really valuable contribution to our service and on behalf of these patients and families I would like to say a huge thank you to them both for this exceptional level of support.”

Bert and Shirley have pledged to continue their support for the charity and have already been encouraging others to come forward and do what they can to fundraise for the charity.

Anyone who would like to follow in their footsteps and become a Rennie Grove supporter should contact the fundraising team on 01442 890222 or email fundraising@renniegrove.org

“Ride or die, remember?”

Fast Five back in 2011 was a crazy jump start for an auto-action franchise that was in danger of running out of gas.

Now the series blasts back and instead of misfiring, Fast & Furious 6 – yes, with the ‘& Furious’ back in the title – sees loveable street racers Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), plus their pals Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Han (Sung Kang) and Tej (Ludacris) getting in over their heads. Again.

Director Justin ‘Community’ Lin somehow manages to create a plot that allows for the vehicular warfare to go further over the top than anything we’ve seen on a big screen before.

It revolves around the Fast gang – now fugitives living the high life after their successful Rio heist of Fast 5 – being recalled by hard ass cop Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to help him take down a new threat in the form of Shaw (Luke ‘The new Crow’ Evans).

It seems that evil Shaw, working with a gang of nasty mercenary drivers, is stealing parts to construct a super weapon, which would be worth over a billion dollars, by attacking military convoys.

He only needs one more part and so Hobbs and his new partner Riley (Gina Carano) are desperate enough to offer full pardons to Dom and crew if they can help nail Shaw – and save the world.

Cue high speed chases, tons of auto-destruction – some of which involves a battle tank on a Spanish motorway – all ending with a climax that would be perfectly at home in a Die Hard movie.

The action globe hops round the world with segments in the US, London, Spain and Tokyo – each is well used and as a Brit it was especially cool to see the London scenes, although the good ol’ UK coppers aren’t any match for the hotshot street racers or their new enemies.

The car action is what has always been the beating heart of the Fast & Furious films and it pays off again here.

That does mean that the ‘acting’ has to take a back seat to modified vehicles going incredibly fast and crashing.

There is an awkward subplot about Dom trying to win back the heart of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) who was thought to have been killed in an earlier film but who survived, lost her memory and is now working for the bad guys.

So sure, it’s nonsense – but it is highly entertaining high octane nonsense which certainly keeps the engine of this turbocharged series revving nicely!

Josh Ryan and Oliver Lansdowne were unlikely heroes for Berkhamsted School I against Merchant Taylors’, as their 10th wicket stand of 39 helped Berkhamsted to a nail-biting win.

Earlier in the day, Berkhamsted had bowled their opponents out for 129 with Harvey Robertson taking 4-17, Oliver Lansdowne 3-27 and Josh Ryan 2-21.

However, the loss of wickets early in the innings left Berkhamsted on 27-4. Resistance from Ali Leighton (26) – pictured – and Xavier Owen (21) was short-lived as wickets continued to fall.

At 92-9 the game looked lost, but Ryan (32 n/o) and Lansdowne (5 n/o) saw Berkhamsted home.

Elsewhere, the second XI made it seven wins from seven victory over MTS.

Berkhamsted bowled their opponents out for 85, with Iain Billington taking 3-10 and Alex Howe bagging 3-19, before Henry Scott’s 35 saw his team home.

Berkhamsted teams found the going a little tougher in the intermediate and junior matches, however.

The U15As were outplayed, losing by 55 runs, as were the U14A, B and C teams.

The U15B and U15C teams had better fortunes as Stuart Frame and Scott Duguid both scored fifties as the U15Bs won in a high scoring match, and Amish Adodra’s five-wicket haul (5-21) meant that the U15C match was the first to finish.

Both the U13A and Bs were defeated, but the two U12 teams won away from home.

Leverstock Green Ladies U18s emerged victorious in Chinnor in their first ever senior tournament.

After winning the U18 league and cup double, confidence in the Leverstock camp was high, and they added another trophy to their collection.

A 1-0 win against Wealdstone in the opening game of the Chinnor Ladies Tournament, courtesy of a superb strike from Pru Squires-Adams, got the ball rolling.

They girls were brought back down to earth in the second group game after losing 1-0 to Carterton Green, before two hard-fought draws followed against Chinnor and Tower Hill.

This left Leverstock needing a 2-0 in their final game, while also hoping that Carterton Green failed to score in the last group game of the day.

And sure enough, after Leigh Burrows and Ellen Salter secured a 2-0 Levy win, the final result went their way as Carterton were held to a 0-0 draw.

That set up a final clash with Swindon Spitfires – who had beaten all before them in their group – and the odds looked stacked against the Levy youngsters.

But after Ellen Salter had fired them ahead in the first half, each and every one of the girls fought with everything they had to keep Swindon at bay and secure the trophy,

Whether you’re looking for a relaxing lunchtime recital or a rousing evening concert, Boxmoor’s St John’s Church can see you right as it gets set for a busy programme of performance.

The church’s popular series of lunchtime concerts returns on Friday, with the first featuring Sheena Wilson (clarinet), Frank Wilson (bassoon) and Nicholas King (piano).

The following week, on June 7, soprano Alice Bishop will be accompanied by Simon Marlow on the piano.

Each concert starts at 12.30pm and admission is by donation – £3 is suggested by the organisers. Lunches and refreshments are available at £2 a head afterwards.

The church is one of the venues for the summer-long Dashfest arts festival, which takes in events around the borough.

At St John’s, you can enjoy the Vale Symphonic Band’s take on popular music created for the movies and stage shows.

Conductor Phil Wayman will lead his players through musical medleys and more, featuring toe-tapping theatrical hits from shows like Les Miserables as well as themes familiar from James Bond and Indiana Jones adventures.

That’s on Saturday, June 8, starting at 7.30pm, and admission is £8 (£5 for U18s). Call 01442 if you’d like to reserve tickets.

Later in the month, the church will be playing host to an arts festival overseen by the Music At St John’s charity.

This will run from Friday, June 14 to Sunday, June 16, with the doors open from 10am to 6pm on the first two days and 11am to 5pm on the Sunday.

Admission will be £2.50, with accompanied children free, and organisations promise a variety of attractions including works by local artists, a display of arts and crafts using a variety of materials, woodturning demonstrations, ostrich egg painting, porcelain reproduction dolls, bobbin lace and a craft stall with items for sale.

The theme tune probably rings more bells than any of the characters, but in its day Dick Barton was the biggest thing in broadcasting.

The radio detective’s adventures regularly attracted audiences of more than 20 million fans – but that was back in the 1950s, before it got shouldered aside for the everyday story of farming folk that we know as The Archers.

But Dick is not dead – he’s coming back to life at the Boxmoor Playhouse later this month. This musical production from the Hemel Hempstead theatre company is a tongue in cheek spoof featuring all the original characters. Curtain up for a five night run is Tuesday, June 18 – more at www.boxmoorplayhouse.co.uk

Some hardened showbiz troops will be in the front line when a show featuring some of the tunes that kept us humming during the dark days of the Second World War goes on stage at the Leighton Buzzard Theatre tonight.

A trombonist who is more accustomed to serving in the ranks behind megastar Tony Bennett is just one of the unit detailed to spearhead the nostalgic show, which kicks off at the Lake Street venue at 7.30pm.

There will also be seasoned performers who can list stints with the New Squadronaires, who famously carry the flame for wartime big band greats like Glenn Miller, among their battle honours.

With more contemporary stars like Robbie Williams and Michael Buble rekindling interest in the golden age of swing, the Blitz brigade are hoping to attract an audience of all generations.

Tickets are £11 (£10 concessions) from the box office on 0300 300 8125.

Four comedians for £14 – that should put a smile on your face if you’re looking for a value for money night out, and you could get it even cheaper if you look sharp.

And the team putting together a new comedy night in Harpenden hope they’ll also be raising a healthy sum for a good cause.

The Ha-Ha-Harpenden bill at the town’s Public Halls on Saturday night is compered by rising name Lewis Charlesworth, and also on the bill are Eric Lampaert, Andy Fury and Joey Page.

Advance tickets are on sale now at £12, or it’s £14 on the night.

Doors open at 7.30pm and the show starts at 8.30pm.

All profits from ticket and bar sales will go to the Railway Children, a charity which provides support and opportunity for children living on the streets in the UK and abroad.

Call the box office on 01582 767525 or visit www.harpendenpublichalls.co.uk to book.

The recent Queen’s Speech and the State Opening of Parliament brought not only the traditional pomp and spectacle but some new legislation which I warmly welcome and which will directly help me to deliver my Police and Crime Plan for Hertfordshire, Everybody’s Business.

The announcement that Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) will be put in charge of commissioning services to support victims of crime will prove crucial to delivering on the Public Focus element of my five-year plan, as we strive to ensure victims receive the very best level of service.

Although Hertfordshire Constabulary is already among the best when compared with other forces, I want to aim even higher in all aspects of service delivery.

Supporting victims of crime is a key priority for me. I have already begun working with our current providers, Victim Support, to understand the needs of victims and the services already delivered, in order to develop further improvements to the care and treatment offered.

Changes announced in the speech to the Victims’ Surcharge arrangements include the removal of a magistrate’s right to add time in custody in place of a financial penalty when sentencing.

This will be a crucial means to making sure offenders pay and putting the needs of victims first which are among my key priorities.

The Community Remedy and Community Trigger which were also outlined in the speech provide a really tangible way for the public to get directly involved in reducing anti-social behaviour which is a key element of my Everybody’s Business plan.

Both help to put community safety back into the hands of the community – the ‘trigger’ ensures a police response to angoing or repeat anti-social behaviour issue and the ‘remedy’ gives the public a voice in how an offender should pay.

In addition, more powers are being handed to the police to directly lead prosecutions. This is something that I advocate in my plan and work is already under way in Hertfordshire to adopt this approach.

Where the police are the prosecuting authority this could reduce bureaucracy and they will be able to recoup the true costs of crime. Where appropriate this could include costs for a stay in the cells, which is something I am currently looking into.

The proposals regarding rehabilitation reforms received widespread news coverage. I am clear that tackling re-offending is vital in the fight to reduce crime.

Establishing supervision for recipients of short custodial sentences is a step in the right direction and something which everyone agrees needs to be done.

Keeping Hertfordshire safe is everybody’s business and I look forward to working closely with the police, local councils, health agencies, criminal justice partners and communities across Hertfordshire to continuously improve and deliver on the Plan’s four key development areas – public focus; offender pays; business sense and core policing delivery for the future.

David Lloyd is Hertfordshire’s police and crime commissioner. Contact his office on 01992 556600 or visit www.hertscommissioner.org

World-leading green power firm RES has unveiled a brand new website for its award-winning low-carbon headquarters.

Beaufort Court is built on the site of the old Ovaltine Egg Farm in Kings Langley, and is best known for its landmark wind turbine which towers over the nearby M25 motorway.

The headquarters complex is also a popular educational centre, and the new website, which went live on Friday, includes an interactive Energy Trail that allows visitors to get a detailed look at the range of renewable energy sources that power Beaufort Court.

There’s also a child friendly section called Lofty Finds a Home, telling the story of how the turbine came to be at Kings Langley, as well as live data based on each energy source used throughout the flagship office.

There’s a simple visitor application form, too.

Education officer Sandie Taylor said: “The old Ovaltine Egg Farm was converted into our beautiful head office 10 years ago and the old website needed an update.

“The new look Beaufort Court website is easy to use, clear, concise and speaks volumes about the local community within which RES operates.”

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The firm will be offering free wind turbine tours on Saturday, June 15 – Global Wind Day. Refreshments will be provided and children are welcome.

Tours must be booked in advance and places are limited. To find out more and to book your place, call 01923 299247.

Visitors will be able to make a donation on the day to the Global Wind Day charity Renewable World, which is tackling poverty through renewable energy in East Africa, South Asia and Central America.

Something’s not right, and it’s up to us all to put our heads together to sort it out and come up with something better. Ready for a bit of a brainstorm?

Here’s the conundrum. We’ve just had another bank holiday, but what do we mean by a bank holiday?

Let’s break it down, shall we? We’ll start with the second bit first, and it’s commonly agreed that the origin of a holiday is holy day – a saint’s day or other important landmark in the Christian calendar on which it is expected that we put work to one side, go to church, and generally bend the knee to a higher being. Sound like anybody you know? No, me neither.

And what have the banks got to do with it? They started getting involved about 150 years ago, laying down the law about specific dates when they wouldn’t open their doors.

Originally there were just four official bank holidays, but more have been added to the list over the years

They’re a bit random, too – I didn’t know until I looked into it that in Scotland they get St Andrew’s Day, in Northern Ireland they get St Patrick’s Day, but in Wales and England St David and St George are snubbed. I don’t know about you, but I feel short-changed.

What’s more, Northern Ireland helps itself to July 12 as well, to remember the Battle Of The Boyne, which is hardly likely to draw together all sides of the community, is it?

Anyway, a bank holiday is supposed to be a day on which the banks are shut. That’s not true these days – there are cash machines wherever you look, phone lines and websites buzz 24 hours a day, and some bright spark in braces is keeping an eye on international markets at all hours.

So it doesn’t seem to be a holy day and the banks aren’t closed. The name needs changing.

Some people alreadt refer to public holidays rather than bank holidays, perhaps to remove any association with the banking industry from something that we see as a benefit. Come on, they cocked up our entire economy, why should they get the credit when we have a day off?

But it’s not a public holiday, either – I’d guess at least half the working population is still hard at it, and the days when you’d bag double time or better for your trouble are long gone.

I’ve long believed that all the public holidays on the calendar should just be added to existing entitlement so that we could take them when we pleased, but that would probably just lead to even more people getting screwed.

What it boils down to is that anyone who gets a bank holiday free and clear these days isn’t pulling their weight in these tough times.

So let’s call them what they are – henceforth they will be known as passenger days. Sour grapes from a working stiff maybe – but I’ll bet there are millions who see it the same way.

Once upon a time the name Robert de Niro above the title meant one thing – passionate, powerhouse performances rooted in blue-collar sensibilities, muscular masterpieces of method acting.

You were with him through the desperate journey of The Deer Hunter, you marvelled as he piled on the pounds for Raging Bull, you imitated his famously crazed monologue from Taxi Driver every time you looked in the mirror. You lookin’ at me?

And then someone went and told him that drama was all very well, but comedy was a much more difficult art to master.

And he listened. He put the Oscar-winning roles to one side and started going for the giggles.

Now I’ll give you King Of Comedy, because it’s not really a comedy and he plays a grotesque and self-deluded wannabe who can’t let go of his dream.

But ever since he cropped up in a surprise chucklestome cameo in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil back in 1985 he’s been on the front foot for funny.

There have been dramatic roles, to be sure, but all along the way there have always been lighter offerings of variable quality. We’re No Angels was a bit of a stinker, Wag The Dog had its moments, but once he hit paydirt with Analyze This – as a pre-Sopranos conflicted hood pouring out his heart to therapist Billy Crystal – the writing was on the wall.

He played much the same character in Meet The Parents, which spawned two sequels, and stuck his hand up for voiceover work in comedy cartoons.

Each time he’s not the main man in the cast, he does his shrugs and his shuffles, gets some laughs as the crusty old geezer and moves on.

Even much-praised Silver Linings Playbook had him stuck in the same grumpy old man rut.

Which brings us to The Big Wedding, which is about a big wedding.

Bobby is one half of a long-divorced couple who have to pretend to still be happily hitched when the son they adopted wants to get married and his biological mum, a devout Catholic, has to give her blessing. Oh, what larks. Diane Keaton, also sadly sidelined into comedy support roles in recent years, is the mum, the cast includes Susan Sarandon, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried and Robin Williams signed up to steal scenes. If it all sounds absolutely predictable, it is.

Also out is The Purge, a 15-rated sci-fi thriller set in a future where everyone is law-abiding but allowed to go bonkers one night a year and all bets are off for 12 hours.

Sensible people lock the doors and hunker down, but that’s not enough to protect Ethan Hawke and his family. Mayhem ensues, courtesy of the crew who remade Assault On Precinct 13, which gives you a good heads-up about what to expect.

Eagle-eyed television viewers may have spotted Hemel Hempstead’s Old Town during a bank holiday evening drama.

A repeat of The Scapegoat, based on Daphne du Maurier’s 1957 novel of the same, was shown on ITV on Sunday night.

The High Street was visible in some outdoor scenes of the two-hour film, which first aired in September.

Star Sheridan Smith, who has also filmed in the town for Mr Stink, shot some of the Old Town scenes in 2011.

A new project to save the lives of children suffering from malnutrition under a charity set up by a Hemel Hempstead surgeon has been launched at Westminster.

Motec Life-UK, works in one of the harshest and poorest environments in the world – Jirapa, a district in Ghana – where it teaches women how to sew so that they can earn money to put food in the mouths of their children.

Now the good cause is undertaking a nutrition rehabilitation project called NUWLIFE, which stands for Nutrition Working for Life.

It involves setting up a dedicated nutritional rehabilitation centre – expected to cost in the region of £110,000, with maintenance and running costs of £12,000 per year.

This will house a hostel for mothers of sick children, provide vocational training to help the mothers to generate an income including teaching soap manufacturing, traditional cloth weaving and sewing, and an on-site shop floor for the sale of the products that are made to help fund the centre.

Mothers will also be involved in farming on land donated by the local chief Naa Ansoleh Ganaa II where they will get guidance from a delegated agriculturist and nutritionist and they will be taught how to prepare nutritious affordable food in the centre’s kitchen.

It takes three to six months for a child suffering from malnutrition to be get better in hospital, meanwhile other children from the family are at home suffering, which means families are often repeat visitors to the hospital.

The NUWLIFE scheme aims to break that vicious cycle so that when mothers and children leave the centre they can generate an income and know the importance of nutritious food. In turn it is hoped that the number of little ones being hospitalised with malnutrition will decline.

Around 12,000 children in Ghana alone die each year from malnutrition.

Statistics also indicate that under-nutrition contributes to about half of all child deaths beyond early infancy while one out of every 13 children in Ghana die before their fifth birthday, mostly as a result of under-nutrition.

Orthopaedic surgeon Paul Ofori-Atta, who lives in Grovehill, presented the project to politicians at Westminster earlier this month and hopes it will generate support, publicity and funding from across the political parties.

Closer to home outgoing Dacorum Mayor Bert Chapman donated two manual sewing machines to the project.

One belonged to his mother Mary Chapman who passed away in 1972.

Mr Chapman, who this month completed his year in office as mayor, said: “It has been laying in her house since then and I know that she would be so pleased that it is going to a group that needs help and will make the best use of it. My mum would be very pleased.”

The second sewing machine had been given to Mr Chapman after the donor heard about the project.

Nurse and charity trustee Linda Bigham said they currently have around 80 sewing machines waiting to be shipped to Africa and are desperate for free storage space.

“I’m spilling over into my son’s garage now and we have got them under the bed,” she said.

Because shipping is so expensive one giant container is sent over to Ghana each year and as well as the sewing machines it also includes children’s books, teaching aids and hospital equipment – “just whatever is needed. We do try and put in as much as we can,” said Linda.

Visit www.moteclife.co.uk or call 07551 067069 to find out more about the charity’s work

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Hemel Stags Aces U10 2
 Comet Blues 3

After hearing their closest rivals for the league title had dropped points, Comets knew a win against Hemel Stags Aces would confirm them as champions with a game to spare.

Comets’ Taylor Barden and Tommy Wadmore were running Aces ragged early on, but Aces took the lead against the run of play as a speculative shot was parried and tapped home.

Hemel were clearly intent to disrupt the Blues’ title party and they soon increased their lead to 2-0 and left the shell-shocked Comets youngsters with plenty of work to do.

Knowing they needed a quick response, the visitors went on the attack – albeit a little frantically – and eventually Max Lacey pounced to pull a goal back just before half-time.

Comets came out all guns blazing after the break and eventually pulled level through Tommy Wadmore.

Harry Bailey and Alfie Williams combined well, and Wadmore made no mistake to equalise.

Now only one goal away from glory, Comets pressed for the winner and it was left to top scorer Louie Potton to fire home and secure the title for his side.

Next up for Comets is the Challenge Cup final.

Hertfordshire businesses are being given £200 by a charity and invited to make it grow.

Challenge 200 is being run by Hertfordshire-based charity The Muscle Help Foundation, which helps children and young people suffering from muscle-wasting disease muscular dstrophy.

Legally it’s a loan agreement to raise as much money over as possible over a six month period.

The business raising the most amount of money will be announced at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall on November 19 at the charity’s annual London fundraiser.

Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry supports Challenge 200. Acting chief executive Yolanda Rugg said: “At a time of economic uncertainty, this innovative challenge is a brilliant team building exercise with measureable outcomes – an effective way to not only achieve your corporate social responsibilities, but also a superb way to really make a difference while having lots of fun.”

“The money this project generates will be a huge boost.”