Growing water cooler firm makes Hemel home
A WATER cooler firm plans to create new jobs after swapping its Aldbury base for larger premises in Hemel Hempstead. Angel Springs moved from its site on the Toms Hill Estate to a state-of-the-art...
View ArticleReshuffle sees Terry promoted
A cabinet reshuffle has seen Councillor Terry Douris step in head of planning and regeneration at Dacorum Borough Council to replace Stephen Holmes.The shake-up – announced at the annual meeting of the...
View ArticleSunday morning pedal power
EIGHT cyclists were up early on Sunday and ready to embrace pedal power in aid of a good cause. Together the team is expected to raise £1,500 for Home-Start Dacorum, which helps families that are...
View ArticleJob scheme on track for May
A BRAND new work experience plan, putting Kings Langley on the map, is on track to get under way later this month.The unnamed scheme designed to give jobseekers work experience in a range of village...
View ArticleNorthchurch air quality box that has never been switched on branded ‘horrid...
AN air quality monitoring device installed in a pollution hotspot has been branded a “ridiculous waste of space” by one of its neighbours.Richard Plant, 66, of Northchurch High Street, has been...
View ArticleBerkhamsted’s litter-picking scouts take part in fundraising week
SCOUTS, cubs and beavers have been out and about doing good deeds to help others.It began with the 1st Berkhamsted Scout Group and others filling seven bags with litter from around town last...
View ArticleBanking on help when the cupboard is bare
A PROJECT that helps those facing a cash crisis has dished up 578 food parcels since being launched in September last year. That figure means Dacorum Foodbank has fed around 1,137 hungry mouths, and of...
View ArticleThieves snatch little Jamie’s charity tin
HEARTLESS thieves snatched a charity collection tin from a pub that is trying to help a terminally ill youngster. Staff at The Three Blackbirds in St John’s Road, Boxmoor are backing 11-year-old Jamie...
View ArticleKickabout memorial tops its charity target
A FOOTBALL match in memory of a dad-of-four raised a bumper £1,350, smashing the fundraising target. Many supporters attended the event on Saturday in honour of Ian Thomson, including his two children...
View ArticleMan cleared of sexual assault but judge slams his behaviour as ‘little better...
A RESTAURANT worker, who was today (Wednesday) cleared of sexually assaulting a woman with learning difficulties, was told by a judge that his behaviour towards her was little better than an animal.Ali...
View ArticleJapanese emperor and empress thank Herts fire chief
THE chief fire officer for the county was presented to the Emperor and Empress of Japan on Thursday in recognition of work carried out after the earthquake that rocked the country last year.Roy Wilsher...
View ArticleCandidates announced for by-election
NOMINATIONS for by-elections to replace arrested former councillor Stephen Holmes have been announced. Those standing for the Dacorum Borough Council seat in Woodhall Farm are Liberal Democrat Dave...
View ArticleWhy not train the unemployed as Olympic immigration officers?
I AM old enough and wise enough not to take everything I read in the national newspapers without a pinch of salt, but the sad fact is that nowadays the truth can often be stranger than fiction. If the...
View Article‘We put the fun in guns’
A SHOOTING supplies store that ‘puts the fun into guns’ will open a set of new target ranges from next month.Ronnie Sunshines managing director David Craze says the store in Northbridge Road will...
View Article‘Inadequate’ Tring school is now making good progress
A PRIMARY school deemed inadequate and put on notice to improve is now showing good progress according to Ofsted. Grove Road Primary School in Tring was visited by the education watchdog in October...
View ArticleVillage filmed for new drama
TV: Scenes for a new ITV drama starring Martin Clunes and Hermione Norris have been filmed in a village high street.The stars were filmed in a number of shops in Kings Langley for A Mother’s Son, about...
View ArticleDelight at the museum for talented photographers
TALENTED photographers have been rewarded for their winning images by having their work displayed at The Natural History Museum in Tring.Oliver Vessey won the over 16s category and Robert Needleman won...
View ArticleBraving the skies to raise scan funds in Dale’s name
DAREDEVILS took to the skies to raise money for heart screening at a village school in memory of Dale Butler.The 18-year-old Kings Langley School pupil died suddenly when he collapsed after a football...
View Article‘Hands off our care beds’ say campaigners
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for a ward of beds to stay at Hemel Hempstead Hospital as health chiefs debate the future of the site.Proposals were presented to a meeting of NHS Hertfordshire on Wednesday...
View ArticleMissing hawk ‘was found’ says pigeon control firm
A PEST control company says it is ‘90 per cent certain’ a hawk that went missing in Hemel Hempstead four years ago was recovered.The Harris hawk was brought to the town in a bid to reduce the number of...
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