Hospice workshops
A hospice is holding a series of business growth workshops to help local firms and raise funds.The next in the Programme for Business Growth Workshops at The Hospice of St Francis, in Berkhamsted, will...
View ArticleProperty site keeps all the details well Hidden
A Berkhamsted estate agent has launched what it is calling a ‘revolutionary’ new website concept for buying and selling homes.Hidden Homes, in High Street, does exactly what it says on the hyperlink by...
View ArticleSafety comes first with advertising opportunity
A town centre shop is giving out free fluorescent jackets to youngsters to help them stay safe during the school run. Hemel Hempstead Specsavers director Mervyn Marsh visited five schools this week to...
View ArticleMade In Chelsea stars buy up tickets to Hemel charity’s ball
Stars from the hit reality television soap Made In Chelsea and actors from EastEnders will be mixing with guests at this year’s Hope For Children charity ball.The decadent event at Cafe De Paris in...
View ArticleMentor mum takes a leap of faith for good cause
A disabled mum-of-three who mentors others who have recently become paralysed took part in a parachute jump to mark her 40th birthday. Melanie Burnside, who grew up in Bovingdon, was left paralysed at...
View ArticleMum left fuming over school smoking policy
The mother of a troubled teen has hit out at his Hemel Hempstead school for allowing him to smoke on the premises.Caitlin Sherringham says the school’s policy – she claims there is a special smoking...
View ArticleMan convicted of Murray Thompson murder
A cannabis gardener was today found guilty of the murder of Murray Thompson, in a case where the body has never been found.No motive for the killing of Murray, who vanished two and a half years ago,...
View ArticleSchool taken to task for ‘unfair’ detention
A parent has hit back at a school that has given her daughter a detention for ‘punishing her by association’.Jules Minto says it is unfair that daughter Lucy Peart, 14, is being punished with an...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s guide to the pick of next week’s TV
SATURDAYDoctor Who (BBC One, 7.20pm)It’s the end of an era, and time to say goodbye to Rory and Amy, who have travelled with the Time Lord off, and mostly on, for the past three years.The stars of the...
View ArticleOakman is inn the money!
A growing Tring-based pub company has pounced again by buying another highly rated outlet, this time in Abingdon-on-Thames. Oakman Inns and Restaurants, based in Akeman Street, has bought the freehold...
View ArticleAlan Dee: Marry at midnight if the mood takes you
One of the consolations of getting on a bit is that weddings no longer clutter the calendar. The few splicings that I get invited to these days tend to be second or even third time around affairs, and...
View ArticleTechnical fault leaves mobiles out of action
A fault has left Vodafone mobile phone customers without reception in many parts of Berkhamsted for almost a month. It means that some doctors have reverted to using pagers to keep in touch while out...
View ArticleCall centre team will join Pudsey’s big push
Those that decide to dig deep and pledge cash to Children In Need during the annual television fundraiser could end up speaking to someone at a Hemel Hempstead holiday firm. Haven Holidays in Park Lane...
View ArticleBuses pelted with stones in Hemel Hempstead
A bus carrying passengers was pelted with stones on Monday night (October 8) smashing one of its windows.It happened as the vehicle travelled along Fletcher Way, Hemel Hempstead, at around 9.45pm and...
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 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...
View ArticleWho’s the big shot kicking up a stink in Hemel?
A new comedy drama based on the children’s book Mr Stink by comedian David Walliams is being filmed in Hemel Hempstead. The BBC have been shooting the adaptation starring Sheridan Smith – above –...
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