Construction firm is laying some concrete foundations for strong growth in...
A growing family construction business believes “upping your game” is a way of climbing out of recession.Hardcrete Concrete, with more than 25 years experience in the delivery of ready mixed concrete,...
View ArticlePhotographer Charlotte’s focus is traditional styles of camera
A photographer with a passion for using traditional cameras has installed a new portrait studio in her back garden.Charlotte Hazeldine, 26, from Nathaniel Walk, Tring said: “I prefer the more...
View ArticleLaw firm helps to put young man from a troubled background on course to legal...
A law firm with offices including in Hemel Hempstead and Tring is helping a young man achieve his dream of studying for a law degree against the odds.Pictons has joined forces with The Prince’s Trust...
View ArticleWell insured skydiving team aims to raise money for hospice
A team from insurance company Towergate in Hemel Hempstead is set to tackle a tandem 10,000ft skydive for their charity of the year, The Hospice of St Francis.The company, based in Grovelands Business...
View ArticleCompany boxes clever by buying its own premises and moving down the road
A leading Maylands company has given the industrial area a £2.1million vote of confidence by moving – just a stone’s throw away.Digital imaging specialists FFEI did consider moving to Apsley, Watford...
View ArticlePolice raise awareness 14 months after three crimes
A village crime prevention event was held in response to three burglaries that happened in the area - more than a year ago. The rural operation support and Dacorum safer neighbourhood teams hosted the...
View ArticleCompact two bed house to replace mobile home in village
The green light has been given to replace a mobile home with a two bedroom house within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Planning officers recommended that permission be granted for...
View ArticleHunt for cruel crook who stole disabled Archie’s special buggy
A disabled tot has had his only means of getting around snatched by a callous thief who acted in just a 30-minute window of opportunity.Becki-Jo Sullivan, of Wharfedale, Hemel Hempstead, had left her...
View ArticleH&M’s decision to double in size brings jobs boost and a vote of confidence...
Hemel Hempstead’s town centre is set for a boost as fashion retailer H&M starts work on a refurbishment which will increase its size, and the number of jobs on offer, too.The Swedish clothes brand,...
View ArticleTop surgeon snaps up special bra for clinics
A prestigious surgeon is now using a post-operative bra made by a Tring inventor in his clinics across the country.Adrian Richards owns Aurora Clinics – one of which is in London’s Harley Street – and...
View ArticleThieves target Gadebridge greenhouse
Tools and a girl’s pink and white bicycle were snatched from a garden greenhouse during a weekend burglary. Crooks struck between 2.15pm on Saturday, July 20 and 7.35pm the following day in Aspfield...
View ArticlePictures capture the moment flytipped rubbish was set ablaze in Hemel...
This is the rubbish that was dumped in Woodhall Farm – before it was alight by firebugs.Smoke could later be seen from high above the houses in Tattershall Drive as crews from Hemel Hempstead...
View ArticleBusinesswoman fears roadworks at Hemel Hempstead’s Old Town are driving away...
A businesswoman is fed up with the ‘unbearable’ noise of drilling outside of her High Street beauty salon.Hollie House says the racket made by roadworks at Hemel Hempstead’s Old Town is now deterring...
View ArticleCounty Hall’s axe gives DENS that Friday feeling
The leaders of a homelessness charity were told they could face a cut of £50,000 a year – just before they were due to go home on Friday afternoon.The team at homelessness charity DENS, which now gets...
View ArticleGrass verge hardening launch could solve Dacorum’s car parking solution
A new project to provide more parking in Dacorum will be launched with a community tea and cake event.Ritcroft Street in Hemel Hempstead will be the first of 20 areas to have its grass verges hardened...
View ArticleGreat weather for butterflies: hundreds spotted at Aldbury Nowers Nature Reserve
More butterflies than ever before have been spotted at the Aldbury Nowers Nature Reserve.The latest weekly survey recorded 296 marbled whites, 144 ringlets, 145 meadow browns, 57 large skippers and 19...
View ArticleTablets turn treasure hunts into big events for Bovingdon-based company
Companies are increasingly finding it makes sense to send staff on a wild goose chase, writes Layth Yousif.With firms wanting to get the best out of staff in tough economic times, many are choosing...
View ArticleVideo: Proposing a full-bodied toast to the vineyard’s Tooleys and Frithsden...
The entrance to the vineyard lies off a steep, narrow road – blink twice and you’ll miss it. Three fields of south-facing vines slope upwards for maximum sun exposure. From the top the view of the...
View ArticleStore’s refurb noise upsets neighbours
A supermarket refurb project in Hemel Hempstead is stopping neighbours from sleeping after work on the site reportedly carries on into the early hours.The Asda store on Hillfield Road is undergoing a...
View ArticleHemel Hempstead’s Alan has his own Mo Farah moment in Olympic Park run
A man who was fitted with a pacemaker four years ago is not letting it get in his way – having completed a five-mile run through the Olympic Park just weeks after cycling from London to Brighton.Alan...
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