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Summer Reading Challenge 2025

Libraries Participate in Story Garden Summer Reading Challenge

Get ready for a summer of adventure at your local Hertfordshire Library! This year’s Summer Reading Challenge theme, Story Garden – Adventures in Nature and the Great Outdoors, will encourage children to explore the magical connection between storytelling and nature, against the backdrop of the celebrations for 100 years of Hertfordshire Libraries. In collaboration with The […]

Herts highways contractors

New Administration and Highways Contractor Agree Priorities

The Leader of Hertfordshire County Council Steve Jarvis and Cabinet Member for Highways Stephen Giles-Medhurst, met with Ringway earlier this month to re-frame the working relationship and confirm what the new administration expects as the long-term contract begins in October. Ringway will work collaboratively with colleagues from the county council to deliver a Highways service […]

MEAN GIRLS THE MUSICAL

Mean Girls Show Announcement

Lorne Michaels, Crossroads Live and Sonia Friedman Productions are delighted to announce the 2026/2027 UK and Ireland tour of the award-winning Mean Girls the Musical. The tour will come to Milton Keynes Theatre from Tue 14-Sat 18 Apr 2026 as part of a major UK & Ireland tour. Meet The Plastics – Regina, Gretchen and Karen. They […]

Living Magazines Male stag beetle on a branch Credit Ben Andrews

Survey Spectacular Stag Beetles this Summer

The British public is being asked to keep an eye out for spectacular stag beetles this summer and record any sightings online, as part of a wildlife charity’s national Great Stag Hunt survey. The Great Stag Hunt, run by People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), has been running for over 25 years. Native stag beetles – with […]

Wilstone Reservoir Tring

Embankment Piling Work to Begin at Wilstone Reservoir

This week (w/c 30 June), the UK’s largest canal charity Canal & River Trust will begin installing 2,000 steel piles into a 200-year old reservoir’s embankments, as part of a 15-month programme of statutory works at Wilstone Reservoir, near Tring in Hertfordshire. Stretching for 1,350 metres, the historic embankments at Wilstone Reservoir are among the […]

Vintage Vehicle Rally at Leighton Buzzard Railway

Vintage Vehicle Rally Success and Upcoming Summer Sizzlers

Sunday 22 June saw a gathering of over 100 classic and vintage vehicles at Buzzrail’s Page’s Park station, delighting visitors and owners alike. Drivers showing their classic cars were treated to a reduced-price train ticket on one of five departures, headed by 1919-vintage Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T locomotive ‘Doll’ and 1979-origin (rebuilt 1999 by Alan Keef) […]

Oscar the hawk at Euston

Euston’s Newest Recruit Ruffles Feathers

London Euston has welcomed a feathery new member of the station team in Oscar, a Harris hawk. Oscar will visit London Euston once a week over the next few months with his handler at varying times to carry out ‘pigeon patrols’ aimed at deterring pigeons from setting up home at the station. Although Oscar has […]

Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon to Come to Milton Keynes

Michael Harrison, in association with Cameron Mackintosh, is delighted to announce more venues for the major UK and Ireland tour of Miss Saigon following huge public demand for the thrilling new production. The newly added dates now ensure audiences across the UK and Ireland have the chance to experience the new production of this legendary […]

Ladybird (c) Josh Kubale

Celebrating Rare and Everyday Insects

Insect Week runs from 23 to 29 June 2025 and Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust give us plenty of reasons as to why we should all be celebrating the smallest members of our community. Bugs, critters, creepy crawlies, minibeasts, insects, invertebrates… whatever you know them as, local wildlife charity Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust want […]

Armed Forces Day 2025

Free Family Event to Celebrate our Armed Forces

On Saturday 28 June 2025, Dacorum Borough Council will be hosting its annual Armed Forces Day event. Armed Forces Day is an opportunity to show support for our Armed Forces Community. The free event will be held in Market Square, Hemel Hempstead from 11am-3.30pm and will feature a range of entertainment and activities for all […]

Mr Ash-Edwards addresses the Retail Crime Forum

Commissioner Holds First Forum to Reduce Retail Crime

The first Hertfordshire Retail Crime Forum has been hosted by the Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Ash-Edwards. Over a hundred representatives from retailers and partner organisations attended the event to discuss how they could best work together to reduce shoplifting, business crime and assaults on staff. Held at the Tesco headquarters in Welwyn Garden City […]