Hertfordshire-based charity, DENS, has unveiled its new-look Sleepout fundraising event – taking place on Friday 20 November at The Dock in Kings Langley. The premise is simple but driven by purpose. Give up your home comforts and spend a night sleeping outside to make a difference for local people facing homelessness, who have nowhere left […]
The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Tring will be filled with the sound of music this autumn, as fundraising continues to help with the Save Our Walls appeal. Keyboard Kaleidoscope Saturday 3 October, 7.30pm, St Peter and St Paul Church Tring. A magical evening of musical virtuosity with organ, piano and keyboard skills […]
Chiltern Chamber Choir has just celebrated its 50th birthday. It was founded in 1976 by Adrian Davis, who conducted the choir for 46 of those 50 years. He set up the choir as a small ensemble of experienced singers with a view to performing repertoire close to his musical taste and style. Throughout the years, […]
Tring Running Club hosts its 44th Ridgeway Run this October. The 15km trail race showcases some of the very best local trails, taking runners through the countryside surrounding Tring and along sections of the Ridgeway on Sunday 11 October. This year, the club is committing a portion of the event’s proceeds to planting 200 trees […]
Zookeepers at Whipsnade Zoo are celebrating the arrival of two tiny red panda cubs – a double boost for the Endangered species. Born overnight on Thursday 16 July 2026 to five-year-old mum Ruby and six-year-old dad Nilo, the six-week-old cubs are growing bigger and stronger every day under the care of their experienced mum – and the watchful eyes […]
The application process for secondary schools (including upper schools and university technical colleges) is now open. Whether your child starts secondary or upper school next year or wishes to apply for a place at a university technical college, make sure you apply for a place in good time. The easiest way to apply for a […]
Berkhamsted Castle Trust (BCT) is continuing to raise funds to save the historic Castle Fields, adjacent to New Road in Berkhamsted, and, as we went to press in the summer, had nearly reached half-way towards its £500,000 target to save the fields from development. While this is great news, the trust says it means that […]
Hertfordshire primary school pupils are being given a roarsome opportunity to win a free interactive dinosaur experience, in a county-wide T-Rex-traordinary competition. As the schools return for a new term, Giant Journeys, which provides educational immersive workshops for children, has opened a public vote on social media for teachers and parents to put their schools […]
When the Berkhamsted Sporting Excellence Awards were first launched, the ambition was simple: to give local sport the recognition it deserves. Two years on, those awards offer a moment that unites clubs, communities, and supporters from across the area. For the second season, more than 90 people from across the sporting community attended the awards […]
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts has unveiled its Open Day dates this Autumn, offering young performers the chance to discover what life is like at one of the UK’s leading vocational schools. Home to the new CBBC entertainment documentary series Stage Stars, the school welcomes day and boarding students aged 7-19 years, offering […]
Tring School sixth formers recently teamed up with the Tring Local History Society to discover how useful AI is for history research. Every year, the society supports Tring history students in writing articles for its newsletter. This year, 13 students – Beatrice Riley, Bhav Patel, Daisy Haynes, Emmy Brown, Laura McDonald, Lawrie Heaton, Melissa Burnell, […]
Police should be given emergency powers to halt serious unauthorised development before irreversible damage is done to the countryside, Hertfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has said. Jonathan Ash-Edwards has written to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Angela Rayner, calling for an urgent strengthening of planning enforcement laws following a series […]