Flats plan prompts heritage concerns
Planning committee members are concerned that plans to redevelop a town centre hotel into flats will strip the town of a much-needed amenity without regard to its historic importance.Tring town...
View ArticleCouncil: snow causes disruption
Refuse collections:The recent snow has caused some delays to Dacorum Borough Council’s refuse and recycling collections. All of the crews are out emptying bins and boxes today (Friday) where...
View ArticleLovely Jubilee!
PLANS are in motion for a big celebratory bash to be held in Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead, this summer to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.Funding of £3,000 is also being made available to both...
View ArticleDeer is left to rot in Grand Union Canal in Berkhamsted
THE corpse of muntjac deer has been left to rot in the Grand Union Canal for more than a month.It was first reported to British Waterways on Friday, January 6.The body will be retrieved once the...
View ArticleCommuters ‘hogging car park spaces’
VALUABLE parking slots for shoppers in Adeyfield Square are being taken up by commuters who leave their cars there all day, a store manager has claimed.Mohammed Choudhury, manager at the Co-op, says...
View ArticleJobs: One in five parents "partly hope" their offspring don't get costly...
Rising costs of university places are causing important changes in behaviour and making some parents hope the financial burden doesn't fall on them, research suggests.According to a Populus survey by...
View ArticleUnexpectedly irritating items in the baggage area
LAST week I allowed myself to be talked into serving myself at the checkout in Sainsbury’s by a young lady who then stood over me while I tried to pay for my goods. The machine told me that there was...
View ArticleAstroturf plan for Green Belt
SPORT: Plans to construct an astroturf hockey pitch on Green Belt land have been resubmitted by an independent school.An application to Dacorum Borough Council was originally withdrawn after mass...
View ArticleOlympic-style games for museum visitors
VISITORS to the Natural History Museum in Tring will be able to take on champions of the animal world in a mini Olympic-style games at its latest exhibition.People can test their target practice skills...
View ArticleUnemployment group seeing rising numbers
AN UNEMPLOYMENT support group says the number of people needing help is growing in the gloomy economic climate.The Hemel Hempstead Enterprise and Work Club, based at South Hill Centre in Cemetery Hill,...
View ArticleLand next to castle up for sale
A HUGE plot of land next door to an historic landmark has been put on the market for £575,000.The 13.29-hectare site – which covers five fields next to New Road opposite Berkhamsted Castle – was put up...
View Article‘Smash in the door, but wipe your feet on the way out...’
WIPE your feet on the way out – that’s the advice from an officer who forms part of a burglary crackdown team that is searching the home of a young man believed to have been involved in a series of...
View Article‘Mother’s life was less important than sport’
THE family of a woman who died following a stroke have hit out after the ambulance was refused the quickest route to Watford General Hospital because of a sporting event at the football ground next...
View ArticleChilly conditions, but a bumper crop
GARDENERS overcame freezing conditions to submit a bumper crop into the vegetable category at Little Gaddesden’s Winter Show. The annual event, held on Saturday, received more entries than usual into...
View ArticleNine to five school will mean business
A NEW school where youngsters wear business clothes and work nine to five is being planned in Hemel Hempstead.The school will be laid out like an office – with pupils doing paid work each week with...
View ArticleWe loved our new town home
This week, Muriel O’Donovan remembers her life in Hemel Hempstead through the decadesWe were married in 1949, and after our return from Ireland, my husband and I lived with my parents in Berkhamsted,...
View ArticleGazette reporter to judge Miss Herts contestants
THE judges for the Miss Hertfordshire competition will include a Gazette reporter and two former pageant winners.Abena Bailey will join last year’s Mr Hertfordshire winner Aaron Whitnall and Miss...
View ArticleWho won your vote as cause of month?
THREE schools have been celebrating after being given hundreds of pounds each by Waitrose as part of its Community Matters scheme.Each month, every branch of the supermarket chain is given £1,000 to...
View ArticleStrumming pupils are top of the Formby
PARENTS were given a sneak preview of the music children will play to open the first ukulele festival of its kind.The 30 Year 3 youngsters at Swing Gate First and Nursery School performed for them –...
View ArticleHas bowls club been saved?
VICTORY: A politician claims to have saved a bowls club that was at risk of closure.The Gazette reported in October that Little Gaddesden Bowls and Croquet Club needed £4,500 to fix a leak in its...
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