The longest-running live music theatre show in home counties – The Pepper Show – returns in October 2023 for its 34th year. The Pepper Show is the flagship fundraising event of the Pepper Foundation charity and is a musical institution that has been entertaining audiences since 1989. The show returns to The David Evans Pendley […]
Graham Greene is Berkhamsted’s most famous former resident. An annual festival, now in its twenty-fourth year, celebrates his life and legacy with a compelling mixture of accessible talks, readings, and film-screenings. This year, prominent speakers from the UK and abroad will take us into the world of intelligence, in which Greene served as an MI6 […]
The Discover Bucks Museum in Aylesbury is delighted to collaborate with The Buckinghamshire Craft Guild to present CRAFTED; an exciting opportunity to reach and engage with a much wider audience in the Guild’s first ever showcase exhibition. The museum art gallery is a glorious airy space, providing the perfect backdrop for each maker to display […]
Hertfordshire County Council is using a new type of asphalt product made from recycled tyres to repair potholes in a quicker and cleaner way. Roadmender asphalt contains material from tyres that would otherwise have been incinerated and allows road repair crews to repair potholes four times faster, with less dust and noise. Because the process […]
The Chilterns Neuro Centre is celebrating after being awarded £150,000 per year for three years by the National Lottery Community Fund. The Wendover-based charity will use the funding to treat and support more local people affected by multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s or strokes by contributing towards the salary costs of providing the wide range of services […]
Dacorum Athletics Club has recently qualified for the Youth Development League (YDL) Nationals Finals in Manchester as a combined team with Harrow Athletics Club. This year Dacorum Athletics Club has been hugely successful in the Premier Division of the YDL as a combined team with Harrow AC. As a team they have finished 2nd in […]
Internet usage accounts for almost four per cent of global carbon emissions. With this startling fact in mind – along with a drive to make a positive change for her clients and the planet – Louise Towler, Founder of Tring-based Indigo Tree Digital and Women In Innovation Award Winner 2022, launched the team’s innovative new […]
Say hello to James Bye, who will be swapping the borough of Walford for the town of Aylesbury this Christmas to star as Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre from Fri 1 Dec 2023-Wed 3 Jan 2024. James took up residence in Albert Square back in 2014 playing Martin […]
Tins of beans and a sense of humour are the only two pieces of ‘equipment’ needed for the popular Jog On Gentle Exercise Classes. Started in lockdown, by two local fitness coaches, Erica Carter and Heather Harris these twice weekly on-line classes are still going strong. As Erica explained, ‘We wanted to help people who […]
Poppy Fields Cemetery, the newest addition to Hemel Hempstead’s landscape, opened its gates on 31 July. Covering an expanse of 7 acres, this cemetery offers a serene and thoughtfully-designed space for families to commemorate their loved ones. Drawing inspiration from the Victorian era, the internal layout features kidney-shaped areas bordered by roadways, providing a peaceful […]
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is waving goodbye to Reqs, Britain’s longest-serving fire investigation dog, as he retires from the service. The black Labrador has been using his impeccable sense of smell to detect accelerants like petrol at the scenes of fires in Hertfordshire and the wider eastern and south-eastern regions for almost 11 years, […]
Tring’s Puddingstone Distillery picked up a special judges’ award at the biz4Biz awards in July. Nominated by fans of the distillery and their Campfire Gin range in the Made in Herts category the original list included 83 Hertfordshire businesses, large and small, covering a wide range of industries. It was then whittled down to 25 […]