AN air ambulance was called to Bovingdon on Saturday after a boy was hit by a car.

Paramedics were called to the High Street at 10.39am.

Ambulance service spokesman Gary Sanderson said: “The young boy, who we believe to be five-years-old, sustained facial and leg injuries.

“Land crews worked closely with the critical care team from the air ambulance before he was taken to Watford General Hospital by land for further care.”

Forget flowers and a box of chocolates - a weekend break is the best way to please Mum this year, says Sarah Marshall.

Best for... Fun-loving mums

:: Sanderson, London

Nowhere does it say that daughters can’t do something different for Mother’s Day, so this year take the initiative and book the two of you in for some quality time you’ll both enjoy.

She might wince at first when you suggest afternoon tea, spa treatments and a luxurious dinner at one of London’s top boutique hotels. But just remind her John Lewis will be a mere five minutes away and you’ll be all hers for a whole 48 hours, and watch her face crack into a smile.

The Sanderson, just off Oxford Circus in London, is the perfect place for a fun, mother-daughter bonding session.

While the modern hotel might seem self-consciously cool on the website, in reality the reception couldn’t be warmer.

Guests go there to have fun and let off steam, so whether they’re staggering through the glass front door with huge yellow Selfridges bags, lingering over cocktails at the beautiful Long Bar or enjoying the oasis of green calm and trickling water in the Asian-inspired covered garden, the sound of laughter is never far away.

The Sanderson’s Agua spa is a trip highlight not to be missed. The height of several floors, it’s sectioned by white drapes and feels like entering a futuristic palace devoted entirely to self-indulgence. The Mad Hatter’s Afternoon Tea is also a must-do. This Heston Blumenthal-style affair offers primary-coloured sandwiches, exploding ice cream and foams that beg you to ‘Drink Them’.

Finally, a stay would not be complete without dinner at Asia De Cuba. Although this restaurant is at the Sanderson’s sister hotel, St Martin’s Lane, it’s well worth the cab ride. What better way to convince your mum the weekend is all marvellous value for money than by enjoying their Asian-Cuban fusion dishes, which are delicious and huge!

(Sarah O’Meara)

:: Rates for a room at Sanderson start from £229 per night plus tax. For more information, visit www.sandersonlondon.com and www.stmartinslane.com

Best for... Earth mothers

:: Center Parcs, Elveden Forest, Suffolk

If you and your mum want to shut out the world for some serious pampering, try the new spa suites at Center Parcs.

With a log cabin feel, these luxe suites are decked out like a swish apartment with a bath tub ‘with a view’ and circular outdoor bed.

With interior touches such as lime green accents, wooden panels and tree bark lamp stands, the rural forest setting has been reflected in the glossy modern decor.

But the real draw is the adjoining Aqua Sana spa, which is right on your doorstep. Set over two levels, with a heated outdoor pool and Zen relaxation areas aplenty, pampering nirvana is just a few footsteps away. You can almost smell the aromatherapy vapours from your suite.

There’s unlimited entry to the spa throughout your stay, including your arrival and departure days, giving you ample time to try all 15 globally-inspired experience rooms, such as the Indian Blossom Steam Room, Greek Herbal Bath and Turkish Hammam.

Once you’ve built up an appetite, you can undo all the hard detox work and treat your mum with a visit to the spa’s Zilli Cafe, offering mouth-watering dishes designed by Aldo Zilli.

The spa suite package also includes a face and body treatment for you both. OK, so the therapist doesn’t quite come to your room, but it’s the next best thing. In fact, you don’t even have to get dressed; you can pad between your spa suite and the next door spa in your white slippers and robe.

If that still sounds too much like hard work, a concierge is on hand to arrange restaurant reservations and ensure you’re stocked up with DVDs so you don’t have to lift a finger.

Now, that’s one way to ensure your mum glows for Mother’s Day!

(Lisa Haynes)

:: Overnight accommodation in a spa suite, with double or twin beds, starts from £199 per person per night based on two people sharing. For more information, visit www.aquasana.co.uk or call 08448 266 205

Best for... High-maintenance matriarchs

:: Le Bristol, Paris

She gave birth to you, sewed labels into your school uniform, and has probably washed your socks a million times. When it comes down to the nitty-gritty, there’s really no-one quite like Mum.

If you really want to go for broke and spoil her rotten on Mother’s Day, a weekend break at one of the finest hotels in Paris could be the ultimate treat.

Take the Eurostar from London, and within two-and-a-half hours Mum could be playing princess in a property that deserves every one of its five stars.

Built on a site dating back to 1715 and opened as a hotel in 1925, Le Bristol embodies the spirit of classic Parisian style. Vibrant bouquets of fresh flowers perfume the marble hallways; a grand, old-fashioned iron elevator trundles between floors, and the hotel’s resident fluffy white cat can often be found curled up on one of the red plush sofas.

Designed to be a home from home, albeit much more luxurious, there’s none of the stuffiness usually encountered at top-end hotels. So even if Mum comes down to breakfast in her Primark pullover, no-one will bat an eyelid.

Le Bristol has recently renovated its stand-alone three-floor spa and now offers treatments by Le Prairie. Decorated in muted cream, white and mushroom hues, the environment is just as soothing as the myriad of massages and facials on offer.

While Mum may not quite be ready for the Russie Blanche treatments, which involve being beaten by birch branches infused with essential oils, you won’t go far wrong with a Platine Rare massage. After two therapists smother her skin with creams containing platinum, she’ll leave looking literally radiant.

If an overnight stay is beyond your budget, consider booking a spa treatment followed by afternoon tea.

And when it comes to checking out and paying the bill, just remember: she’s worth every penny.

(Sarah Marshall)

:: Spa treatments at Le Bristol start from 110 euros. Packages with overnight stay are also available, from 900 euros, including accommodation for two, breakfast and 150 euros spa voucher. Visit www.le-bristol-hotel.com or call 0033 1 53 43 43 00.

:: Eurostar operates up to 18 daily trains to Paris with return fares from £69. Visit www.eurostar.com or call 08432 186 186

Best for... Stressed-out mumsies

:: Lopesan Villa Del Conde Resort, Gran Canaria, Spain

Looking after kids, no matter how old they are, is enough to wear anyone down. Give tired mums a much-needed boost by booking a series of Thalassotherapy sessions at the sun-drenched Thalasso Corallium in Gran Canaria.

Based on the ancient belief in the natural healing properties of sea water, the benefits of Thalassotherapy include weight loss and cellulite reduction, as well as relief from joint pain and back and circulatory problems.

After stripping down to swimwear and popping on a delightful shower cap, guests begin the Thalasso Experience in the central Vitality Pool situated beneath an impressive copula.

For the next (recommended) two-and-a-half hours, underwater bubble beds, hydro body massages and neck massages are used to relax weary muscles. Afterwards, retire to the comfortable, heated beds in the Mineral Pavilion, where you can inhale seawater vapours to help with breathing.

Guests can then step through the cold water reflexology Kneipp Pool to stimulate legs, feet and the nervous system. The brave can opt to venture into an ice fountain. The circuit ends in a flotation pool with a specially designed sound and light system.

For an added treat, it’s possible to book one of the spa’s stunning Ocean View Suites with its own seawater Jacuzzi, private sun terrace and treatment couches just metres from the sea.

(Susan Griffin)

:: The five-day Oasis of Serenity package includes five Thalasso Experience circuits, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Facial, Stone Massage and Anti-Age Vitality treatments and costs 534 euros per person. A five-night stay in a double room at the hotel costs from 999.40 euros. Visit www.grancanariawellness.com

Five people were cut free by firefighters after their car was involved in an M1 crash on Sunday morning.

It happened northbound between J8 and J9 at 11.57am, when the car hit a lorry.

Those rescued were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

POLICE are appealing for the public’s help in tracing a missing man.

Jamie Girdlestone, 20, last seen leaving his Milton Keynes home at 1.30pm on Friday, phoned a relative to say he had disembarked a train at Tring Railway Station.

Thames Valley Police are urging Jamie to contact family to let them know he is safe and well.

He is about 5ft 4ins, of stocky build and was wearing a grey, hooded top and light-coloured jeans and carried a dark, canvas bag.

A man from Hemel Hempstead has been jailed for 30 years for smuggling millions of pounds worth of drugs into the UK.

Adegboyega Adeniji, 49, of Sandmere Close was caught at Heathrow Airport in April 2011 after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam.

He had two suitcases filled with 31 kilos of cocaine, five kilos of heroin and two kilos of methamphetamine. The haul had a street value of over £4million.

Adeniji admitted importation charges, but denied conspiring to import class A drugs. He was unanimously found guilty by a jury at Isleworth Crown Court.

> See the March 7 edition of the Gazette for more.

BUSINESSES who put their best brains forward for next month’s annual Dacorum Big Business Quiz will need to produce a real team effort to take the title, says the man who is setting this year’s questions.

Gazette editor John Francis, who led a hand-picked Gazette team to victory in the days when the big night at the Dacorum Pavilion was a fixture on the district’s community calendar, is hard at work creating a set of testing brainteasers that aim to serve up amusement and anguish in almost equal measure.

Quiz fan John has been setting and hosting quiz nights for charities for nearly 20 years and prides himself on organising events that provide laughs, long sighs of despair and the odd bit of information that will stick in your mind long after the quiz is complete.

“As well as setting and hosting quiz nights I’ve been to a fair few over the years, and learned from the mistakes others have made,” says John.

“The first pitfall is to pick questions out of a book – the question master has to be confident of his or her material, and I only ever ask questions I have created myself, and double checked.

“The second stumbling block is to let you own enthusiasms run away with you – I’d love to set a quiz about some of my special interests, but the bulk of the audience would be left looking blank.

“And if you think you know a lot about a subject, it’s easy to make the questions far too tricky for a general audience.

“I’ve also learned over the years to road test every round on guinea pigs – my benchmark is that a well-rounded team should be able to score six or seven right answers in every ten, but two more questions will be a stretch and the last one will be a real stinker – but one which you can answer by using a bit of inspired guesswork.”

The quiz night will have themed rounds, but they won’t be constrained by any particular subject like history or geography, and there will be no jokers.

“They just cause arguments among teams,” says John. “If a joker round goes badly, there’s always someone who will say they didn’t pick it. I prefer to give a bonus for anyone who scores full marks on any particular section.

“But one failing of many quiz nights is that it’s pretty clear by the half way stage which teams are in with a chance – the mechanics I’ve developed mean that the favourites can come a cropper in the final furlong, and a complete outsider can come up on the rails to take the prize.

“If a quiz night doesn’t include a fair bit of laughter as well as head-scratching, it’s gone wrong somewhere. Nobody goes out to a quiz to be made to feel stupid – it’s all about having a good night out for a good cause.”

There are only 20 tables available for the quiz at Shendish Manor on the evening of Thursday, March 22 and business teams from across Dacorum have already booked their places.

Signed up and ready to go are representatives of Pickworths solicitors, Lorica Insurance, Furnell Transport, Hillier Hopkins, Carr Hepburn, Shendish Manor and Viva Networking.

Tables cost £250 and seat 10 people, with the admission price including supper.

All proceeds will go to the Community Action Dacorum who project manage Connect Dacorum, the organisation that acts as a link between Dacorum’s businesses and the district’s vibrant community sector.

As well as taking part in the quiz, there are lots of other ways to get involved – there is a super raffle scheduled, featuring just a handful of big ticket prizes.

Organisers hope that local firms will come forward to donate prizes, or sponsor one of the rounds in the quiz.

All companies who sponsor a round or donate raffle prizes will also be able to promote their organisations at the event with a banner or publicity stand. To find our more about the opportunities on offer call Loretta Anderson on 01442 253935 or Jeoff Colls at Connect Dacorum on 01442 228216.

l You can warm up for the big quiz by tackling John’s fiendish place names puzzle, raising funds for the Hospice of St Francis as part of the Biggest Loser Challenge. To find out more, email john.francis@jpress.co.uk.

Football

Hemel Town 1 Bedford Town 1

A HATFUL of chances came and went for Hemel as the Tudors were held to a frustrating draw with Bedford Town at Vauxhall Road.

Despite bossing the game for 90 minutes, Hemel only had one goal to show for their efforts after man of the match Dave Pearce volleyed home a second half equaliser for Mark Eaton’s men.

While the result sees Hemel post another point on the board, it does little to help the Tudors in their fight against relegation.

The Vauxhall Road faithful can take heart from the performance, however, and had the Town forwards had their shooting boots on then the Tudors would have run out comfortable winners against their mid-table opponents.

Hemel boss Eaton was encouraged by what he saw from his side, but admitted he was frustrated not to have taken all three points from the game.

“We were better than them but it’s another two points dropped,” he said. “We’ve not scored our chances and it’s just little lapses that we need to sort out.

“I’m disappointed about the result but positive about the performance. Hopefully we can start to change our luck a little bit.

“Our strikers need to be a bit more decisive and we need to stay positive as a group. Everyone at the club has to stay positive.”

Hemel knew how important Saturday’s game was and the side made a bright start to the game with Dennis Fenemore’s overhead kick well-saved before Ross Lafayette headed wide when well-placed in front of goal.

The Tudors continued to dominate proceedings and should have gone ahead when livewire Pearce carved out a big chance for Fenemore, but the striker could only lash over the bar from six yards out.

And the hosts were made to pay for their profligacy after 36 minutes as former Tudors striker Drew Roberts volleyed Bedford into the lead.

Town responded well to going behind and continued to press, but were frustrated time and again by ex-Hemel keeper Ian Brown who was having a fine game for Bedford between the sticks.

The second half was welcomed in by a shower of rain, and the chances continued to pour down on the Bedford net.

With 49 minutes on the clock, Hemel finally made their pressure count as Pearce fired his side level with a crisp half-volley at the back post .

With the wind in their sails, Hemel pressed for a winner and the decisive second goal for the Tudors could have arrived courtesy of Lafayette.

The ball fell to the big Hemel front-man inside the penalty area, but he could only side-foot his effort at Brown who saved easily to ensure the points were shared.

West Herts League

SWR Doors recorded an emphatic 8-0 thrashing of Oxhey Jets A to keep alive their hopes of retaining the Premier Division trophy.

Goals by Glen Walsh (3), Joel Williams, Joe Copson, Stuart Meaney, Jeff Mensah and Jamie Hatchet did the damage.

Meanwhile, Hemel Rovers’ topsy turvy season continued as they were thrashed 5-0 at home by a very good Wellington Arms outfit.

Bovingdon grabbed a well-earned point in a 4-4 draw at Aldenham, but Gadebridge FC slipped to a narrow defeat.

Goals from Lewis Crowys and Chris Size were not enough for Gadebridge as they were beaten 3-2 at home by Harpenden Rovers Reserves .

Elsewhere, cup action saw Hemel Rovers A go down 3-2 to Oxhey Jets B in the Holloway Trophy. Luke Penhallow bagged both Rovers goals.

Potten End’s West Herts Junior Cup hopes were ended when they were dumped out of the tournament after a 7-2 home defeat to Pitstone and Ivinghoe. Dean Boswell and Dan Simpson got the consolation goals.

A 4-2 defeat to Oxhey Wanderers in the Webster Cup virtually ended any hopes of Hemel Rovers Reserves picking up any silverware this season. Dan Thorne and Dave Flack were the Rovers scorers.

A win for Tring Athletic A, meanwhile, put them through to the next round of the West Herts Senior Cup. An own goal against Kings Sports was all that was needed.

> Pic – Action from Tring Athletic A’s win over Kings Sports. Picture courtesy of Jim Garnett.

VILLAGE leaders plan to spend a £1,000 grant for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on a new Christmas tree.

Dacorum Borough Council is giving a grand to parish council leaders in each of its 14 villages, while Berkhamsted and Tring Town Councils will each get £3,000.

It is set aside for spending on celebrations during the two day bank holiday from Monday, June 4, to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne.

Northchurch Parish Council’s plan is to put part of the cash into a Christmas tree in her name.

Last year, it gave the £650 it would usually spend on the tree, which goes outside its High Street office, to the village’s The Hospice of St Francis.

Chairman Alan Fantham said: “We want to plant our own fir tree this time, in the Queen’s name.”

The rest of the cash could be given to the village’s St Mary’s C of E First School in New Road, he said.

THE start of Ryan Tomlin’s funeral was marked at 12.30pm today (Monday) with the flying past of a tornado.

The senior aircraftman’s coffin was then carried into St Mary’s Church in High Street, Hemel Hempstead, by six of his comrades and followed by his family.

Crowds lined the old town to pay their respects to the former Astley Cooper schoolboy.

The 21-year-old was fatally wounded by small arms fire from an insurgent attack while he was on patrol in Afghanistan on Monday, February 13.

He will be buried at Woodwells Cemetery.

>For the full report and more pictures pick up a copy of this week’s Gazette, out on Wednesday.

IT’S all hands on deck for volunteers at a community garden project as it heads towards its launch date in May.

Hemel Hempstead Conservation Volunteers (HHCV) is the latest group to help out with the Hemel Food Garden site run by Sunnyside Rural Trust on Two Waters Road.

The conservation group is spending the week working on creating an oasis in the middle of the town.

They have been cutting down the overgrown hedge line bordering the Durrants Hill fishing lake, making habitats and enhancing the views across to the lake.

The cuttings from the hedges are used to create borders that offer shelter for small animals, especially birds all of which will add to the green space.

The hedges surround a recreational and outdoor training area where an orchard of pear and apple trees has already been planted.

Plans also include putting in picnic benches for people to enjoy and planting more fruit for pick your own.

Jay Wilson of HHCV said: “We’re delighted to be getting involved with the Hemel Food Garden which is a fantastic growing, training and community initiative.”

The garden project will launch on Friday, May 11 with an invite-only tour and buffet that will be followed by a variety of events for the public.

Sunnyside Rural trust staff and service users are currently busy working on its contract to provide thousands of bedding plants for Dacorum Borough Council.

To volunteer on the project call Kealey Henderson on 01442 255977 or email volunteering@sunnysideruraltrust.org.uk

TWO brothers will be rewarded for long service to a charity branch set up by their mother around 40 years ago.

Tony and Tom Wheeler will be given medals by the Duke of Kent on May 17 for their contribution to the Tring branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

Read the full story in this week’s Berkhamsted & Tring Gazette.

The overall results for this year’s Berkhamsted Half Marathon are, in ascending order, as follows:

Ed Banks

Andrew Cracknell

James O’shea

Simon Riley

Luke Delderfield

Jonathan Scott

Anthony Jackson

Guy Woollett

Blake Vivian

James Charlton

Simon Speirs

Paul Knechtl

Paul Greavse

Mark George

Peter Lee

Ross Langley

Darren Cornish

James Pickett

Sebastian Jones

Dermot Curley

Chris George

Mark Castleton

Peter Scannell

Martin Price

Richard Coles

Grant Paul Florence

Grant Ramsay

Jon Williams

Paul Boschen

Marc Rowland

Jamie Marlow

Vince Ellerby

David Craddock

Gavin Evans

Mark Hadaway

Tom Hampshire

Joseph Dunn

Rob Phillips

Thomas North

Tom May

William Amos

Sally Onn

Alan Whelan

Neill Hughes

Anna Hynes

Kevin Watson

Garth Morris

Michael Allan

David Thorne

Robin Barrett

Kevin Whelan

James Bell

Paul Goodwin

Ian Lawson

Mikk Bradley

Phil Robbins

Ben Hughes

Kevin Fielding

Andrew Lansdell

Bryan Sharp

David Pomeroy

Runner 94

Gee Thomas

Steve Lloyd

Ali Young

Mark Taplin

Matthew Watt

Keith Jordan

Nick Matthews

Robert Wardlaw

David White

Bill Hawes

Brendan Cashman

Steven Boyd

Tam Quinn

Nick Greene

Richard Boley

Nick Cavalla

Daniel Blower

Rob Bryson

Ian Weir

Jake Phipps

Robert Hiscocks

Jonathan Roberts

Nathan Taylor

David Breingan

Thomas Langdown

Nick Mauger

Daniel Watkins

Phil Jacobs

Ian Needleman

Dan Charleston

Stuart Middleton

Trevor Lark

Jon Eggar

Tom Phillips

Gavin Rees

Richard Caulfield

Paul Mccrossin

Patrick Waldron

Sergio Conte

Patrick Carey

James Hedgman

Mark Westall

Peter Mannion

Jason Fowler

Colin Braybrook

Jeremy Stevenson

Patrick Cosgrove

Tom Renphrey

Neil Jones

Gareth Owen

James Felstead

Jonathon Lines

Ben Moss

Kevin Smart

Nick Kenyon-muir

Mel Davies

Peter Shelley

Karen Murphy

Lyle Butler

John Manning

Martin Kidney

Richard Barcock

Robert Mckane

Stephen Paull

Heather Blamire-brown

Mark French

Matthew Armstrong

Robert Voyce

Keith Foley

Tom Griffin

Mikhail Sahalayev

Adrian Fowler

Alex Soler

Brian Matthew Peers

Steve Sadler

David Day

Stephen Newing

Alex Meredith

Marc Gurd

Ross Taylor

Ian Smart

Mark Studdart

David Sherratt

Rob Quartermain

Kieran Lee

Nick Lennox

Simon Bellinger

Peter Clarke

Steven Pritchard

Helen Mulhall

Stephen Fitzsimmons

Jack Miles

Mike Bagnall

Graham Taylor

Jurgen Groet

Neal Gupta

Stephen Ellerton

Alexander Mason

Edward Jefferys

Christopher Shearwood

Jenny Maddocks

David Molony

Jon Eames

Adam Herron

Andrew Speak

Tim Cook

Adrian Harwood

John Hopper

Jim Buttleman

Matthew Markwort

Nick Short

Robin Berry

Robert Harrison

John O’grady

Ben Wood

Runner 95

Martin Morgan

Neil Taylor

Shirish Gandhi

Victoria Crawley

Steve King

Will Thurley

Laurence De Hoest

Kenny Blyth

Pritesh Patel

Afshin Najafipour

Mo El-kadey

Nick Mcknight

Jonathan Smith

Benjamin Holdsworth

Will Mehew

Tom Mehew

Rick Blaney

Robert Curtis

Sam Ward

Nicholas Bingham

Adam Callan

Adam Hutchings

Matthieu Burnand-galpin

Ryan Forsythe

Charlie Walton

Howard Clark

Neville Fishman

Steve Longland

Richard Southan

Annette Hardman

Tim Connolly

Teresa English

Moira Craft

David Inwood

Meredith Foster

Jennifer Allen

Andy Piper

Christopher Read

Alex Zilber

Andrew Howell

Kevin Baddeley

Paul Ryan

Anna Waterman

Paul Davies

Kyle Stephens

Benjamin Harding

Ian Kent

Stewart Anderson

Paul Andrew

Mark Hill

Steve Field

Martin Wareing

Jo Ravenhill

Mayur Murali

James Lasbrey

Celia Findlay

Mark Emmett

Alex Williamson

Nick Steel

Guy Dauncey

Joanne Irwin

Niamh Morrin

Stewart Kay

Shaun Marshall

Dwight Williams

Jason Rabinowitz

Steven Hermiston

Andrew Oliver

Chris Williams

Richard Todd

Anna Beattie

Oliver De Hoest

Ron Armstrong

John Harris

Simon Bright

Martin Gould

Aaron Powell

Susannah Crowther

John Brewer

Tom Gilbert

Martin Shipp

Henry Stuttaford

Gez Fallon

Paul Steel

Louisa Pointon

Lara Werrett

Martin Lynch

Nick Everitt

Simeon Layzell

Stephen Shaw

Henry Hamilton

Henry Young

Mark Hobbs

Emmanuel Langley

Rob Coe

Claire Kremer

Jez Crick

Edward Senior

Simon Geary

Steve Woolcock

Brendan Kingston

Joby Allen

Paul Garwood

John Franssen

Shan Slavin

Simon Green

Dylan Wendleken

Claire Kenney

Fraser Mccoull

Peter Alford

Timothy Cory

Dermot Ryan

Chris Young

Claire Taylor

Mark Boggis

Nicola Carter

Graham Baxter

Stuart Linden

Stuart Hassall

Steve Sargeant

Dan Collins

Dallas Wiles

Peter Baker

Carl French

Katie Ferguson

Ian Wands

Mark Kennedy

Stephen Kelly

Barry Smith

Steve Wansell

John Walker

Paul Illing

Claire Mcdonnell

Stephen Atkinson

Tim Dutfield

Julian Perrins

Nicholas Crowther

Sarah Deed

Ross Weavers

Dierdre Heydecker

Runner 93

Michael Edwards

Gary Bruce

Hugo Davis

Emma Wands

Sophie Delderfield

Andrew Bishop

Rob Chambers

Robert Taylor

James Moulton-smith

Ed Rhodes

Dan Hull

Andrew Mckechnie

Susan Millward

Kimberley Dubbin

Paula Nicol

Neil Warby

Mark Cyl

David Ponting

Stuart Cook

Andy Neill

Dominic Williamson

Philip Pugh

Huw Thomas

Doug King

Jonathan Coutts

Julian Matthews

Oliver Burch

Ashley Clarke

Liezel Rickard

Peter Twidle

Christopher Birley

William Spencer

Stephen Foster

Sean Mcfarlane

Peter Amoils

Adam Meakins

Paul Beadle

David Ballard

Tom Murray

Piers Keenleyside

Bev Mauger

Shane Kaley

Lisa Wheatcroft

Ben Bates

Simon Huntley

Laura Jones

Anthony Rowland

Phil Roger

Paul Wagner

David Edwards

Wynne Leith

Richard Jones

Kevin Mills

Paul Mcpartlan

Martyn Hughes

Steve Hiscock

Robert Dilley

Martin Bell

Sandra Goldsack

Daniel Lowans

Edward Pritchard

Nigel Henry

Andrew Jackman

Rodford Andrew

Tomas Sterner

Ben Richmond

Mark Waterhouse

Charlotte Ing

Steve Daniel

Mike Bailey

Phil Lovelace

Samuel Poole

Dan Morris

Andrew Moore

Tom Neill

Chris White

Martin Storrie

Alan Blackburne

Ian Mcconnell

Tom Harris

Clare Hewitt

Matthew Buckle

Sarah Kelly

William Markiewicz

Sean Gregory

Simon Perkins

Paul Cinnamon

Nick Hardie

Jane Sauer

Lissa Pritchard

Andrew Briggs

Thomas Little

Paul Martin

Warner Stainbank

John Dodsworth

Mary Ward

Thomas Dutton

Paul Richards

Doug Chapman

Graham Appleyard

Martin Veryard

Paul Stevens

Neil Shaw

Scott Grange

Neil Ostrer

Massimo Bufi

Roger Simmonds

Jane Nodder

Krim Saidi

Sarah Caulfield

Stephen Rudolf

Christopher Leech

Christopher Johnson

Richard Morris

Michael Hannah

Philippa Cates

Alan Trigle

Goodwyn Ed

Mark Steed

Rory Merriman

Jackie Robinson

Benji Hassell

Antoine Boulart

Richard Fewster

David Woffinden

Daniel Shawcross

Nick Davey

Aaron Davis

David Zerny

Peter Rogers

Nigel Sellars

Jeremy Laks

Nick Henson

Paul Hewitt

Mark Corns

Charles Naylor

Ian Cairns

Ian Carmichael

Wendy Walsh

Jessica Beall

Conrad Rey

Charlotte Pheazey

Olivier Tarot

Richard Dagger

John Odwell

Roger Partridge

Maryvonne Hassall

Paul Sugg

Richard Stanley

Allan Ferrie

Joanne Matthews

Lee Brandon

Lana Holloway

Tony Nolan

Anna-marie Bartlett

Jack Shute

Deborah Manners

Lena Festerling

Isabel Maciver

Benedict Mann

Andrew Ochia

Edward Green

John Poulain

Jane Thomas

Naomi Prasad

Stephen Gould

Philip Horan

Lawrence Davies

Simon Middleton

Holly Gilbert

Nick Webb

Orville Archer

James Feltham

Lee Lewis

Brett Jenkins

Dominic Naylor

Jeffrey Leonard

Wendy Pearson

Dan Miller

Jackie Ford

Richard Belsey

Jamie Streatfield

Tony Clare

Dan Barton

Victoria Lee

Kate Loach

Leigh James

Flora Kong

Elliot Williams

Paul Geary

Morten Jensen

Christine Ferguson

Stuart Rae

Richard Morgan

Richard Fox

Andrew Williamson

Jonathan Thornton

Patrick Moody

Andrew Rendell

Karen Letham

Jayne Davis

Bruce Ferguson

Paul Hughesdon

Roy Gladwin

Marc Phillips

Kate Speirs

Andrew Digby

Liam Bolger

Nigel Pinney

Richard White

Robert Johnston

Helen Sykes

Stephen Grasby

Louisa Hill

Michelle Trigg

Barbara Orth

Steve Owen

Daron Aslanyan

Nigel Kibler

Dave Wise

Melanie Rutter

Tim George

Paul Bayley

Andrew Collings

Bal Sandhu

Donna Taylor

Tom Sullivan

Martin Mcintyre

Sian Williams

Nick Hunt

Susie Ivin

Sylvain Bleton

Tony O’sullivan

Joel Rickett

Dan Brown

John Gorton

Melanie Ferrie

Robert Dagul

Daniel Dalmonego

Mark Reynolds

Christian Hanson

Tim Rudin

Gertrud Porter

Emma Goodhead

Simon Clarke

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Cathy Sykes

Deborah Christie

Sarah Walters

Paul Walters

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HERE’S a big budget release with a title that seriously undersells itself – John Carter.

What’s that about? Fans of TV medical drama ER might think it’s a big screen spin off for the goody-goody doctor of that name who featured so prominently in that ensemble epic, but not so.

John Carter, for those of you who have not come across him before, is a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, best known for conjuring up Tarzan from his fertile imagination.

ERB’s canon has been plundered by film-makers over the years – as well as Tarzan, he’s the man who pumped out pulp like At The Earth’s Core and Land That Time Forgot at a rate of knots during a prolific career.

But although his biggest hit was the jungle gymnast, his first published work was unashamed science fiction, and his Barsoom series, set on a fantasy version of Mars, began in the same year Tarzan first saw the light of day, 1912

John Carter of Mars was the last of a lengthy series, and was written by ERB’s son John Coleman Burroughs and apparently given a bit of a polish by the old man, though it wasn’t published until long after he died.

All clear so far? Well, John Carter is one of those movie projects that has taken an eternity to reach the big screen, and the number of big names attached to the project at one time or another would stretch from here to Mars.

The finished version is helmed by Andrew Stanton, best known for his work with the Pixar people in WALL:E and Finding Nemo, and taking the lead role is Taylor Kitsch, a star of TV’s Friday Night Lights. You’ll also find Lynn Collins, who starred with Kitch in the X-Men Wolverine spin-off, and Samantha Morton in the cast, as well as Brit thesps Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West adding a bit of gravitas to what is essentially a pile of nonsense dressed up with special effects.

John Carter is a war-weary Americna Civil War warrior who somehow gets transported to Mars, where he finds himself at the heart of another conflict threatening to crack a civilisation asunder.

It’s taken 100 years for the character to make it off the page and into the cinema, but if enough people lap up this 3D adventure, which runs for more than two hours, you can bet there will be more where that came from.

> This week’s only other release of note also features a hot young hunk, but it’s very different in tone.

Robert Pattinson follows the ‘I’m going to do a classic to prove I’m serious after my early smash hits’ path recently trodden by Daniel Radcliffe by taking the lead role in Bel Ami.

It’s the tale of a soldier who seduces his way through Parisian high society, and also based on a book – in this case a distinctly more highbrow work by short story master Guy du Maupassant.

Helping things along are the likes of Kristin Scott Thomas, Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci, but the only reason the project got a green light was the bankable nature of the Twilight star, who hasn’t yet got the range to stand tall in such company.

THERE may have been snorts of derision galore, but I think the decision to stick 75-year-old Engelbert Humperdinck up on stage as the UK’s entry for the Eurovision song contest is an absolute masterstroke.

If you look back over the years, we’ve tried complete unknowns and star names with an equal lack of success.

Nominating a superannuated supper club crooner in a DJ and dicky bow is just accepting that this is the sort of music Eurovision understands – and also that the chances of us ever winning it again, given the tactical voting that goes on among countries you’d hardly ever heard of and which take this camp choral contest much more seriously than we do, are pretty much zero.

And Engel has Euro form, pop-pickers. Not many people know – well, unless they have a look at Wikipedia – that the lad’s first chart success came on the continent, and he was a bit of a name in Belgium before he troubled the British charts with Release Me back in 1967. Yes, 1967.

After denying the finest Beatles single the Number 1 slot – Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane double A side, do keep up – the Hump realised that he was never really going to be down with the kids and concentrated instead on smooth Vegas-style shows and satisfying his adoring fans, which is what he’s been doing pretty much ever since. Whatever else you say about him, he’s a grafter and a pro.

That’s another good reason to give him the gig – as a hard-working, dues- paying touring singer, he will have played in some out of the way holes in his time.

That’s handy, as this year’s contest is being held in Baku, the pearl of the Caucasus and the capital of Azerbaijan.

Baku may have many claims to fame – the world’s tallest flagpole, and the home of chess legend Gary Kasparov, for instance – but it’s unlikely to offer all the home comforts that today’s cossetted showbiz pipsqueaks take as their due. Engelbert will take it all in his stride, because he’s been there and done that.

As an aside, Baku is twinned with a variety of places, including Houston and Basra – shared oil heritage, you see – Bordeaux and Honolulu, and I’m prepared to bet that the Hump has performed in every one of them with the possible exception of Vung Tau in Vietnam.

The only slight fly in the ointment, seeing as we have agreed that Eng’s music is just the sort of thing they lap up in the far reaches of Eurovision, is that he may come up on the rails and actually win the thing.

That would be a disaster, the trick of Eurovision appears to be avoiding the disgrace of scoring null points but also avoiding victory, which would mean we would have to host next year’s contest. I think we’ve got enough on our plates with the Olympics, don’t you?

So all hail to Engelbert – but one last thing. If he’s going to represent the UK the least he can do is shrug off the stage name he nicked from an obscure German composer and perform under the name he was born with.

I give you Arnold George, sometimes known as Gerry, Dorsey, flying the flag for all of us.

A FARM shop staff raised their mugs to toast their new tea rooms.

Dunsley Farm opposite Tesco in Tring opened the rooms on Thursday.

Colette Marks, who runs the farm alongside husband Philip, said: “Since Tesco closed their cafe, there has been a gap in this part of town.

“We have had a very positive response. We are not inundated yet, but people are talking about it.

“Our coffee is all Fair Trade and all our cakes, pies and soup are made on the premises.”

TWO of a town’s top tourist attractions have teamed up to teach visitors about its past.

The Rothschilds in Tring walks from the Natural History Museum in Akeman Street to the Local History Museum in Brook Street will be held on Saturday, March 17.

Historians Tim Amsden and Mike Bass, from the Tring’s history society, will lead the tours.

Read the full story in this week’s Berkhamsted & Tring Gazette.

Levy Green

Leverstock Green 0 Hertford Town 5

LEVY Green manager Steve Heath admitted his side could have no excuses following their biggest defeat in his reign at the club.

A disastrous second half showing saw Green ship five goals in to struggling Hertford Town in a shocking 35 minute spell for the Pancake Lane outfit.

And Heath admits that he was furious at his side’s display. “The only way I can sum it up is that the performance just wasn’t good enough,” he said. “It wasn’t acceptable.

“It was way below the performance level that I expect in terms of quality and effort.

“The 11 players that started the game should have been good enough to win it and there are no excuses.

“I will always try and defend my players but I can’t defend that performance.

“But knowing the players like I do, I’d like to think that I can get a reaction from them.”

The first half against Hertford was a largely unforgettable affair, with neither side really threatening the opposition goal.

Levy started the second half brightly, with Lewis Pritchard forcing two decent saves from Hertford keeper Jake Knight.

However, from the 55th minute onwards it was a horror show from Green as they conceded goal after goal.

First, Dave Hunt managed to force the ball home following a messy goalmouth scramble, before a Louis West slip allowed Lee Roberts to double the Hertford advantage.

A defensive mix-up saw Hunt add a third goal for the visitors, before Roberts bagged his second goal of the game after 86 minutes.

And to run salt in the Green wounds, there was still time for Roberts to complete his hat-trick in the last minute and compound the misery for the shellshocked hosts.

A COUNCILLOR has said that every village should have its own Tesco after the supermarket chain moved into his area five months ago.

Northchurch Parish Council chairman Alan Fantham said there is a problem with parking around the area’s High Street shops – but stresses this is not the supermarket’s fault.

Tesco replaced a One Stop Shop and the vacant Threshers next-door to create a new Express store in September.

Mr Fantham said: “Now we have a Tesco where people can do their weekly shop, rather than just popping in for bits and pieces.

“Every village should have one.”

He said commuters often park outside the shops before getting catching a coach into London.

“Some people live locally, and we need somewhere convenient for people who work in Northchurch to park, but not for people who go to London,” he said.

He added that disabled bays are poorly marked, so drivers can often park there illegally and get away with it.

But new signs marking the spaces will be installed within the next year by Dacorum Borough Council. Mr Fantham added that he would like to see more spaces and a contribution from Tesco could help pay for this.

A GOOD cause is on the hunt for some special volunteers to form a charity dream team.

Helpers will need to be able to spare an hour or two every few months in the run up to big fundraising events like the Midnight Walk, which sees hunderds of people turn out to pound the pavement after dark, or the Santa Dash when people dressed as Father Christmas run through the streets.

The dream team will be tasked with hitting the streets to shout loud and proud about the events and get people signed up.

Hospice spokesman Claire De Silva said: “We’re recruiting right now for a team to be the face of our events.

“Perhaps you’ve taken part in our events in the past, or perhaps you’re completely new to the hospice.

“We’re happy to welcome old friends and new faces - as long as you’re passionate, motivated and energetic, and don’t mind talking to anyone.

“You’ll be representing the hospice throughout the community - so we need people who can talk up and sign up or perhaps even put a poster up every now and then.”

To find out more contact Kirsty Wyatt at the hospice on 01442 869555 or email kirsty.wyatt@stfrancis.org.uk