Man who was look-out for robbery is jailed
The look-out for a robbery at a convenience store in Tring has been jailed for five years while the man who carried out the knifepoint raid was told he also faces time behind bars.Wearing a hoodie and...
View ArticleAppeal for stolen trailer
A large trailer was stolen in broad daylight by a brazen thief. It was parked in Shirley Road, Abbots Langley, on Wednesday, January 16 when a man attached his vehicle to the trailer and drove off at...
View ArticleCooling fire call to lorry on M1
Firefighters were called out to cool a lorry’s brakes after they reached temperatures of up to 300 degrees Celsius. At first it was thought that the vehicle - on the M1 southbound hard shoulder between...
View ArticleRoad closed after smash
One online shopper may not have got their food delivery on time after an Ocado van was involved in a crash. The accident with a blue Peugeot 306 happened at around 9.30pm on Monday in Box Lane, near...
View ArticleOur dedicated donors are all real life-savers
Up to 1,800 lives have been jointly saved by Hertfordshire residents who have given blood up to 100 times.Donors from Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring were thanked for their commitment and...
View ArticleVandals of memorial garden are ‘disgusting’
Supermarket trolleys were thrown into the pond of memorial gardens designed to commemorate soldiers killed in the Second World War in the latest attack on the Tring town centre landmark.The fountain in...
View ArticleCall to force baby batterer to serve jail term in his home country
A bid has been launched to force a man convicted of beating a baby girl so badly that she has been left blind and deaf to serve his prison term in his native Poland. The baby batterer, who lived in...
View ArticleRoad fault site gets upgraded
Frustrated drivers may now find it easier to report potholes and other road faults using an updated system on Herts County Council’s website.A County Hall report into the shortcomings of the online...
View Article‘Stop home on listed property’
Ten neighbours have objected to plans for a new building on a listed Park Street property near the Natural History Museum at Tring.Tring Town Council backed their objections at a meeting on Monday,...
View ArticleLast chance to comment on airport’s expansion
There are just two weeks left to comment on proposals to expand and increase the number of flights to and from Luton Airport.Campaigners from Hertfordshire Against Luton Airport Expansion and London...
View ArticleCouncillors unimpressed by latest plan for hotel site
Plans for 35 homes, a cafe and commercial premises on the site of a former landmark hotel in Tring High Street have been shot down by the town’s leaders.Tring Town Council heard at a meeting on Monday...
View ArticleTring sports facilities are ‘abysmal and dirty and old,’ says councillor
A community leader says the sports facilities in Tring are ‘abysmal and dirty and old’ – and need to included in a 25-year development plan for Dacorum.Dacorum Borough Council has laid down a core...
View Article‘Don’t take it out on staff’
A campaign group is ‘appalled’ by the latest round of money saving tactics being implemented by hospital bosses.Dacorum Hospital Action Group chairman Betty Harris has spoken out against plans to...
View Article‘Pavilion dream lives, but we’re ready to rethink’
The chairman of Dacorum’s leading arts group has posted a withering review of a ‘unilaterial’ decision to scrap plans for a new venue in Hemel Hempstead.Brian Doran was closely involved in drawing up...
View ArticleAlan Dee: Those ad break mini-dramas are a real turn-off
Sometimes you know it’s not worth letting something gnaw away at your vitals and boost your blood pressure towards the red line, but you just can’t help it.And the issue that has cornered my goat and...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: Lincoln
“I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power!”1865,I remember it well… The American Civil War was moving towards its end and US president ‘Honest Abe’ Lincoln – another...
View Article‘You can go on the list, but you won’t get home’
Council housing chiefs are proposing to tightly ration its precious stock, and bluntly telling some people waiting for a home that they have no chance of roof over their heads through the local...
View ArticleOpen to all has a price
Old folk in sheltered housing will have to pay for their own television licences because the housing schemes have been opened up to anyone with a support need, council chiefs have revealed. This means...
View ArticleAre you an eager beaver?
Little ones are being recruited to join beaver groups in Hemel Hempstead. Hemel Scouting has spaces for new members aged six to eight-years-old. There are 13 scout groups across the town in Apsley,...
View ArticleAppeal after cash machine is set alight in Abbots Langley
Police have released CCTV images of a man they want to talk to after a cash machine was set alight. The arson attack happened between 4am and 4.50am in School Mead, Abbots Langley, on Wednesday,...
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