Alan Dee’s guide to new cinema releases
TIM Burton glossed up Alice In Wonderland to add a different dimension to the famous fairy tale immortalised for the silver screen by Walt Disney, and the trend continues with this week’s big holiday...
View ArticleGet help from cancer cause
A new touring mobile van will give free information and support to anyone affected by cancer. The charity Macmillan Cancer Support will be arriving in Hemel Hempstead on Thursday, April 12. Trained...
View ArticleAttraction near Tring draws in guests for stick day
GUESTS flocked to a popular nature reserve for fun with sticks on Saturday.Families had fun making hobby horses like the ones pictured below as authors Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield launched The Stick...
View ArticleKate’s peace poster is a winner with Royal guest
A TEENAGER from Berkhamsted has been named British winner of the Lions International Peace Poster contest.Kate Saunders, 13, was one of 23 merit award winners out of more than 350,000 entries from 60...
View ArticleHeath: ‘Now is not the time for goodbyes’
Leverstock Green manager Steve Heath says he will be doing his best to ensure a good run of results before he bids farewell to Pancake Lane at the end of the season.Heath announced last Tuesday that he...
View ArticleWatford FC course comes to Hemel
There is still time for parents to secure a place for their children on a Watford FC football course in Hemel next week.The course runs from Tuesday until Friday at Lockers Park School, at a cost of...
View ArticleFred may be 80, but he’s still a gym fan
FRED Perryman has been going to the gym for 18 years – and he won’t let his age stop him now.The 80-year-old, of Millfield in Berkhamsted, goes to Fitness First in High Street three times a week.He...
View ArticleBerkhamsted lacrosse player victorious on US tour
BERKHAMSTED School triumphed in a 10-9 win over Bishop’s High in La Jolla on their US lacrosse tour. The 20 players aged between 14 and 17 flew out to California, USA, on Thursday, March 29 and return...
View ArticleOxfam calls for bra donations
Ladies are being called on to donate their unwanted bras to Oxfam. The good cause says there is a great demand for the underwear in Senegal where Oxfam has set up a clothing company called Frip...
View ArticleDear Dylan, your book is out - again
A WRITER who published her novel herself after a publisher tried to make her tone down its content is celebrating a new chapter of success.The book first came out in 2010 – but Siobhan Curham, 41,...
View ArticleGet brains picked at quiz for Hospice of St Francis
A RADIO presenter will host a quiz of the week.Gareth Wesley, from radio station Mix 96, will lead the Pickworths Quiz at Boxmoor Playhouse in St John’s Road, Hemel Hempstead, on Friday, April 20.The...
View ArticleVoters can be as silly as politicians – that’s the price of democracy
I have yet again turned to watching DVDs of yesteryear programmes rather than watch the dross currently on TV. At the moment I am seven hours into that great 1991 series GBH and enjoying it as much as...
View ArticleGroup praises good planning
THE 87th annual general meeting of a town conservation body has been held.During the event at Berkhamsted Town Hall, Katy Brookes-Duncan replaced Susan Johnson as chairman of Berkhamsted Citizens...
View ArticleNew clerk needed for Berkhamsted Town Council
A new clerk is needed to serve Berkhamsted Town Council.Former policeman Alan Kemp, 55, has done the job since 2010 but his last day is on Monday, April 30.He said: “It has been a very challenging...
View ArticleBrigid’s astrology circle is piece of Fantastic Art
THE founder of a worldwide art group is about to launch its biggest exhibition so far.Brigid Marlin, 75, of Castle Hill, Berkhamsted, set up the Society For Art of Imagination in 1993 to promote the...
View ArticleNew council homes are a first in two decades
NEW council homes are to be built in Dacorum for the first time in 20 years.Council bosses have done a deal with the government that will allow them to build 45 homes over the next three years.And...
View ArticleGood result for 999 service
Paramedics: The ambulance service covering Dacorum has been rated highly in a new survey.The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) had 98.6 per cent of respondents in a patient survey...
View ArticleFind out about using real nappies at sports centre event
A WEEK dedicated to promoting the use of real nappies kicks off on Monday, April 16. To mark the occasion Dacorum Borough Council is hosting a Nappuccino morning at the cafe inside Hemel Hempstead’s...
View ArticleChildren from across Dacorum perform in Oliver!
A TOTAL of 75 little ones from schools across Dacorum took to the stage for a production of Oliver.Boxmoor-based Gobstoppers Theatre Company put on the show at Berkhamsted School’s Centenary Hall on...
View ArticleRun to shake off jelly bellies
TWO mums who teamed up to take on charity feats in a bid to get rid of their ‘jelly bellies’ will run the Brighton Marathon for the second time. This time Sally Perkins, 36, and Becky Stephens, 40,...
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