Dacorum Borough Council helped residents cut food waste and save money during Food Waste Action Week 2021. The week-long event (1-7 March 2021) was part of the national Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) campaign and aimed to highlight the environmental impact of food waste. The key message of the week was: ‘wasting food feeds climate […]
The first 15 new trainee Police Officers of 2021 officially graduated on Friday 5 March, starting their careers with postings to police stations across Hertfordshire. Chief Constable Charlie Hall gave a big virtual welcome to the nine men and six women thanking them for the hard work and commitment already shown. He said: ‘It’s not […]
A counselling service for children and young people in Hertfordshire has received a £2,000 donation from the Amazon fulfilment centre in Hemel Hempstead. Signpost is committed to the continued provision of counselling, coaching and other support to help young people aged 10-25 and living in South and West Hertfordshire overcome problems in their lives. The […]
Dacorum Borough Council has planted 1,313 trees during January and February to help reduce the borough’s carbon footprint. The three main areas with large-scale planting are Hemel Hempstead’s Gadebridge Park, Keens Field and Leys Road. Trees were also introduced in Coronation Fields, Northchurch and Bunkers Park and along roadsides. Of the trees planted, over 900 were […]
Stars must have been aligned one day in January when Nirav Dalia was running late for work and stopped to read a text while walking down Berkhamsted high street. As Nirav, a dentist at Bow House dental surgery stopped, he heard a call for help from Nash Estate Agents, where a woman had collapsed. When […]
It’s a big year for Living magazines! We will be celebrating our 20th anniversary this winter and would love you to join in our celebrations. We are calling for local people, organisations and businesses to tell us about Berkhamsted 20 years ago. Perhaps you have photos from the high street 20 years ago, that show […]
Sir Mike Penning, Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead, is calling on local people to beware of the tactics of the West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust in their latest ‘public engagement’ campaign. He said: ‘I am fully behind the New Hospital Campaign on this. The Trust is pushing the hard sell, trying to make us […]
Organisers of Tring’s huge annual music festival, Chilfest, are delighted to announce a ticket giveaway for NHS staff at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Having been forced to make the heart-breaking decisions to postpone and then cancel the Chilfest event in 2020, plans for Chilfest 2021 are set to be the biggest and best yet. Artists […]
Fellow Residents, By the time you read this, it will have been almost 12 months since the first COVID-19 lockdown. It’s been a pretty torrid time, especially since the autumn, with families unable to get together for Christmas and everyone locally in Tier 4, then an extended lockdown so the virus doesn’t overwhelm the hospitals. […]
Fellow Residents, As I write this we have snow and ice on the ground but the sun is shining and the sky is blue. It describes our lives at the moment as we are back in lockdown, unable to mix, but the vaccines are rolling out and a brighter, safer future beckons. By the time […]
Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, has collaborated with its near neighbour and competitor company, Camiers Waste Management, to clear up litter from the verges and hedgerows of roads close to both companies’ headquarters, in Long Marston, near Tring, Hertfordshire. With the lockdown – brought about by restrictions relating to […]
A Hertfordshire Constabulary Inspector has shared his experiences of striving for equality as part of an event to mark LGBT+ History Month, hosted by the University of Hertfordshire. Inspector Steve Alison is the Chair of the Herts Police LGBT+ Network, a support group that works with the local LGBT+ community and advises colleagues internally on […]