Music on the Moor is facing the finale
The future of the most popular music event in the borough has been thrown into doubt after bosses announced they are ‘revisiting’ Music on the Moor.The cost of staging the free festival has reached...
View ArticleInterim boss for hospital
THE director of nursing at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust will step into the top job on an interim basis.Natalie Forrest, who has been a nurse for more than 20 years, will take on the role of chief...
View ArticleTourists could holiday at Walter’s old place
The new owners of the former racing estate that was managed by Walter Swinburn and Peter Harris for more than 20 years are looking into the possibility of offering holiday lets from the property.If the...
View ArticleTreasury minister David Gauke says those who complain about child benefit...
South West Herts MP David Gauke has accused those who are opposed to child benefit cuts for high-earners of being ‘fiscal nimbys’.The treasury minister, who previously said it is ‘morally wrong’ to pay...
View ArticleTrial of man who allegedly stole £135k from The National Children’s Home delayed
The man who allegedly stole £135k from The National Children’s Home will now appear in St Albans Crown Court on Monday, November 19.Christopher MacKnight, 52, of Howard Agne Close, Bovingdon, is...
View ArticleFlu fighters are music to the ears of patients
Ambulance crews in Herts have become flu fighters in the biggest ever NHS vaccination campaign.More than 700 paramedics and ambulance staff in the county have had flu jabs so far but bosses hope to...
View ArticleBerkhamsted mayor trapped in lift
The chairman of Berkhamsted Town Council’s transport and environment committee couldn’t get to its meeting on Monday – because he was stuck in a lift.Councillor Ron Cowie, who is also the town’s mayor,...
View ArticleSuper recruiter racks up 40 years of force service
Every single police officer now working for Herts Constabulary has been recruited into the force by one woman.Jean Starkey – who in March this year reached 40 years of service with the constabulary –...
View ArticleOne year on, tributes pour in to honour Billy Dove
People of Dacorum been paying their respects to Billy Dove on the first anniversary of his death.Billy was murdered in Market Square, Hemel Hempstead, in the early hours of November 6 last year, and...
View ArticleMotorbike thieves strike overnight
Two motorbikes were snatched overnight. It is thought thieves used a van to transport the vehicles - a red 900cc Honda CBR and a green and black Kawasaki -last Wednesday (October 31). The Honda was...
View ArticleBerkhamsted’s Wednesday market isn’t ‘way out of order’
An inspection of a new Wednesday market by Berkhamsted Town Councillors has led them to conclude that it isn’t ‘way out of order’.Their findings were announced to the group’s transport and environment...
View ArticleAlan Dee: Would we all vote for an election blackout?
I do love the BBC and happily cough up my licence fee, which by any reckoning is one of the biggest bargains around.It doesn’t matter if you think that Radio 1 is a migraine waiting to happen, that...
View ArticleLitter picking group aims for 100
The Berkhamsted Litter Pickers has got 94 members, but its coordinator wants to take that figure up to 100.Colin Garatt told a Berkhamsted Town Council committee meeting on Monday that volunteers...
View ArticleCould Berkhamsted workers get new town centre car parks?
Two town centre car parks could be rented out to firms under new deals.Berkhamsted Sports Club and the town’s Sacred Heart Catholic Church may offer their facilities to those who work nearby, a...
View ArticleBerkhamsted parking permits decision expected soon
A decision on Berkhamsted Town Council’s plan for parking permits near the town’s train station and Charles Street could be made soon.Council clerk Gary Cox is counting responses for and against the...
View ArticleMan falls from scaffolding
A man has been taken to hospital after falling down two flights of scaffolding in Hemel Hempstead.The injured man had been working on building repairs in Dickinson Quay when he fell at around 2pm.Fire...
View ArticleComet staff still in the dark
Administrators called in for struggling electrical store Comet are unable to say what the future holds for the Hemel Hempstead store.The troubled firm, which has been hit hard by the uncertain economic...
View ArticleCop czar race hotting up
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper visited Herts to back Labour candidate Sherma Batson in the race to become the county’s first police and crime commissioner.Voting takes place on Thursday, November...
View ArticleBabyfaced burglar jailed for 27 months
Teenager Reece Ballantyne has been locked up for 27 months after being caught burgling again in Hemel Hempstead.Ballantyne, 18, had gone with another youth to a house in Great Elms Road and asked the...
View ArticleCookery course helps people rebuild lives
A new cookery course with a top hospice chef is helping people get their lives back on track after losing a loved one. The six-week course called Cooking with Chris at the Hospice of St Francis helped...
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