Chilterns Countryside Festival
More people than ever before went to this year’s Chilterns Food and Countryside Festival.Highlights of the annual festival included ferret races, tree surgery and sheep sheering demonstrations and two...
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A self-confessed gym dodger is training for a half-marathon in memory of her late boyfriend. Michelle Noble, 28, is tackling the endurance feat to raise money for the hospital that cared for...
View ArticleBovingdon Brickworks did not make it in to final cut of TV show
Bosses at a brickworks had hoped for a stint in the television spotlight last night. But it seems filming at Bovingdon Brickworks ended up on the cutting room floor when the final editing for Channel...
View ArticleBerkhamsted village green plan opposed despite new homes fears
Plans to register a school’s playing field as a village green to stop new homes from being on it have been opposed by politicians.Members of Northchurch Parish Council said the Egerton Rothesay School...
View ArticleHealth teams are bucked by awards listing
A number of health services that look after people across Hertfordshire have been recognised through national awards.One of these, a special listening service which helps people with mental health and...
View ArticleNeil Fox on film: Killing Them Softly, Savages
Killing Them SoftlyBeware the trailers that make this film seem like a Get Shorty or Burn After Reading-esque romp, because this is not that film. This is as brutal and violent and blistering a...
View ArticleHemel Hempstead club hosts ‘Olympics’ for young bike riders
A day of Olympics-style cycling will be hosted for eight- to 14-year-olds on Saturday.You will have to register in advance for the 1pm to 4pm event at Longdean School in Hemel Hempstead.There will be a...
View ArticleDacorum Borough Council will listen to you
Dacorum Borough Councillors and directors will be at Berkhamsted market under a green marquee from 10am to 3pm on Saturday.They want you to tell them how well you think they run the borough.The council...
View ArticleYoungsters aged 10 in hospital for anorexia
Children as young as 10 have been treated in west Herts for the eating disorder anorexia.Figures revealed by West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust show three 10-year-olds – two girls and a boy – have been...
View Article‘New exam system will favour better schools’
A headteacher has welcomed a shake-up of the GCSE exams system – but fears the new regime could leave behind youngsters from less privileged backgrounds. Education secretary Michael Gove announced this...
View ArticleNew owners buy £3.4m hotel in need of a revamp
A hotel seriously in need of a refurbishment has been bought from the joint administrators for £3.4million.The freehold of the 137-room Ramada, in Hemel Hempstead Road, Redbourn, was marketed by...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s guide to the pick of next week’s TV
SATURDAYComedy World Cup (Channel 4, 8.15pm)The first round of the knock-out tournament continues as two more teams battle it out to progress.Tonight, talk show host Alan Carr joins forces with...
View ArticleBlind bowler played for nation
A medal-winning blind bowler will be able to take part in the sport’s world championships next year after being given two charitable grants.Sarah Marshall was given £175 by Berkhamsted Lions and also...
View ArticlePolice are on a roadshow drive to prevent break-ins
Cops will be hitting the streets to tell people how to beat the burglars ahead of the clocks going back for winter at the end of this month.Crime figures show that in the autumn and winter months...
View Article‘Lifetime’ ban for disgraced teacher
A teacher with a career spanning 40 years has been banned from the classroom for life after police found photographs of teenage boys in swimwear at his home.David Dawson worked at Egerton Rothesay...
View ArticleBy Jupiter! Free school bid for Highfield site
Plans to open a new ‘free’ school in Hemel Hempstead’s Highfield district are being drawn up just five years after education bosses axed three of the town’s primaries because of falling numbers. The...
View ArticleRed card proves costly as Tring pay the penalty
St Margaretsbury 2 Tring Athletic 0Ten-man Tring Athletic came away empty-handed from their midweek trip to St Margaretsbury.What already looked a tricky fixture for Tring was made even more difficult...
View ArticleComrades hit hard by ruthless Haringey
Berkhamsted 1 Haringey Borough 4Berkhamsted crashed to their biggest defeat of the season against an experienced Haringey Borough side on Tuesday night.The game was effectively over after half-an-hour...
View ArticleWill you walk across hot coals to help the elderly?
A good cause that helps the elderly is asking people to walk across hot coals for them. Age UK Dacorum wants brave fundraisers to hot foot it across 12ft of coals to raise money for the charity, which...
View ArticleJust for women cycling event for hospice
A group of mums will be getting in the saddle for an 80km bike ride to raise money for The Hospice of St Francis.Josephine Brain, Angela Kellett, Lucy Clutton, Wendy Valentine and Helen Cole, from...
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