Local Tring distillery gains further recognition at the London Spirits Competition Small batch gin producer Puddingstone Distillery has been awarded two gold medals and two silver medals in the 2021 London Spirit Competition for its Campfire Gin range. This is a great achievement for the Hertfordshire-based nano craft gin distillery, founded by Ben and Kate […]
Rail passengers are being urged to travel either side of the early May bank holiday when hundreds of railway engineers improve the West Coast main line. Millions of pounds is being invested to improve future journeys for passengers and freight on Network Rail’s West Coast South route. Between Saturday 1 and Monday 3 May, Euston […]
Tring Running Club members will be celebrating the club’s 40th birthday year with a variety of running-focused events, including a 40-mile relay and a ‘Treasure Hunt’ Score Challenge. With its founding club run on 14 April 1981, ‘Tring Jogging Club’, as it was then known, has seen many changes in its 40-year history. Perhaps the most […]
The Great British Spring Clean will be returning this year with their most ambitious target to date: to litter pick a million miles around the UK. Dacorum Borough Council is proud once again to be supporting the annual litter-picking campaign and is calling on everyone to join in with the national effort throughout May and […]
Hertfordshire Constabulary is warning residents to stay vigilant following reports of scam phone calls and text messages which appeared to be from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Seven victims in Borehamwood, Watford and Hemel Hempstead have been contacted by the fraudsters claiming to be HMRC over the last few weeks. The victims were told there […]
Dacorum Borough Council will be in Hemel Hempstead town centre this Saturday to promote their new partnership with LoyalFree. The LoyalFree app, available to download now, promotes high street businesses throughout borough for free, whilst also providing a range of local offers, deals, event listings, interactive trails and more. A small team from the council […]
The festival runs from 22 May to 6 June with over 80 guided walks in the beautiful Chilterns All walks must be pre-booked at visitchilterns.co.uk/walkingfest and numbers are limited to make them Covid-safe The Chilterns Conservation Board is delighted to announce that the Chilterns Walking Festival is back this spring with an impressive programme of […]
Katy Etherington, founder of the not-for-profit website for disabled people and personal care assistants, PA Pool, has won the London & South East England Prestige Awards – Private Care Specialists of the Year 2020/21. The PA Pool website, www.papool.co.uk, is for disabled or elderly people looking to employ a Personal Care Assistant (PA) or carer, […]
A Hertfordshire woman has been issued with a Community Resolution Order after attempting to sell a genuine 1960s ocelot fur coat. The woman, aged 18 and from Chipperfield, had attempted to sell the coat online before the UK National Wildlife Crime Agency alerted police. Officers subsequently made contact with the woman and she agreed to […]
Andy Tidey, from Aston Clinton, is running 7 marathons in 7 days for the charity Headway, the brain injury association. He has raised nearly £3000 to date. On Saturday 17 April he began his first marathon, running around the villages of Weston Turville, Wilstone, Marworth and Tring, completing it in 3 hours 45 minutes. His […]
Those aspiring to join Hertfordshire’s Special Constabulary can find out everything they need to know about the role in an upcoming virtual information evening. The virtual event will take place on Wednesday 28 April at 7pm and is open to anyone who is interested in becoming a Special Constable. A Special Constable is a part-time, […]
Network Rail is today launching an art competition that will celebrate rail travel and the destinations people have missed travelling to during lockdown over the last year. The competition titled ‘Wish I Was There’ invites art students from across Britain to create and submit pieces of artwork that conjures up images of the places that […]