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Marlowes Santas Grotto 2025

Marlowes grotto returns supporting National Children’s Air Ambulance

Christmas magic is returning to The Marlowes Shopping Centre, as Santa’s Grotto makes its much-anticipated return for another festive season and this year, it’s supporting an incredibly special cause. For 2025, The Marlowes has chosen The National Children’s Air Ambulance as its official Grotto charity partner. All donations raised throughout the festive period will help […]

Herts local transport plan

Help shape how Hertfordshire travels tomorrow

Public engagement open until 19 December 2025. Hertfordshire County Council is inviting residents, organisations and visitors to have their say on the future of transport in the county, as part of the first stage in developing a new Local Transport Plan (LTP). Transport affects everyone, every day, whether people walk, cycle, wheel, drive or use […]

Arts Society Tring Park March 2026 lecture How to get Down from a Yak

Textiles, time and other tales on talks programme

How to get Down from a Yak is just one of the intriguing talks on the Arts Society Tring Park 2026 programme. How to get Down from a Yak: Adventures in Central Asian Nomadic Textiles, will explore houses made from wool that keep warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands […]

eon Warm Homes Local Grant Dacorum solar panels

Council invites applications for Warm Homes grant

Dacorum Borough Council is inviting residents from low-income households to apply for the Warm Homes: Local Grant, funded by £2.8 million from the government to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in homes. In partnership with E-ON, the scheme is for eligible low-income homeowners, private landlords and private renters with their landlord’s consent. Landlords […]

Tring u3a’s stand at Community Action Dacorum’s Outreach event

Get together with u3a

Tring u3a’s annual Christmas social offers a chance for members and visitors to celebrate with a morning of live festive music. On Thursday 11 December, at 10am in the Victoria Hall in Akeman Street, the u3a ukulele and singing for fun groups will demonstrate their talents. Tring u3a is a friendly organisation providing Tring and […]

Herts SEND strategy

Have your say on Hertfordshire’s new SEND strategy

Local people are being invited to have their say on a new draft strategy for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) that has greater collaboration at its core. On Thursday 6 November, an ambitious draft three-year strategy was approved for consultation by Hertfordshire County Council’s Cabinet, who hailed it as a significant step forward in […]

Remembrance 2025 -Cllr Susan Jordan with the joint chairs of the Berkhamsted Youth Town Council, Dominic Schwab and Curtis Florido

Waiting for the band on Remembrance Day

While much of the UK commemorated Remembrance Day at 11am on Sunday 9 November, Berkhamsted’s ceremonies were mid-afternoon – the time the only marching band in the area could attend. The annual event is held on the closest Sunday to the day World War One ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of […]

Soak up the festive magic at a National Trust place near you - credit National Trust Images - Rob Stothard

Christmas at local National Trust places

This festive season, the National Trust is inviting visitors to experience the magic of Christmas at its places across Bedfordshire. From historic houses dressed in festive finery to enchanting trails through winter landscapes, visitors can enjoy a season full of wonder and tradition. Highlights include: Historic houses transformed for Christmas Fairytales and seasonal stories brought […]

Herts local government map

Decision process underway for local government reorganisation

Over the course of the next few weeks, councils across Hertfordshire will make decisions on which unitary authority model they are supporting. Following the Government’s invitation to councils in two-tier authority areas to submit plans for local government reorganisation, all ten district councils, the county council, and the Police and Crime Commissioner have been working […]

ATL Women’s Rugby proudly wearing their new Milbank-sponsored kit following their County Cup and Festival of Rugby wins

Rugby teams win in style

The ATL Women’s Rugby teams, based at Tring Rugby Club, have kicked off the season in style, winning two county cups and taking the title at the RAF Girls Festival of Rugby (Halton 2025). Their strong start to the season has been boosted by a new sponsorship from Milbank, whose support has provided the players […]

L-R Bruce Herbelin-Earle as Dickie Greenleaf and Ed McVey as Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr Ripley, credit Mark Senior

The Talented Mr Ripley heads to Aylesbury in the new year

Following rave reviews and sold-out performances throughout its 2025 season touring the UK, producers Jack Maple, Thomas Hopkins, SAMS Entertainment and Carl Moellenberg are delighted to announce that the first ever UK and International tour of Patricia Highsmith’s iconic thriller The Talented Mr Ripley extends into 2026 ahead of a planned West End transfer, coming […]

Jonathan Ash-Edwards

Has your town centre felt safer this summer?

You may remember earlier this, Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Jonathan Ash-Edwards sent a short survey out to residents in Hertfordshire asking for their views on safety in our town centres. Based on your feedback, there has been a big push to improve safety in our town centres, shopping areas and parks, working with Hertfordshire […]