Following increases in the theft of keyless entry vehicles across the country over recent months, Hertfordshire Constabulary is issuing advice to residents to help them protect their vehicles. To help combat this type of crime Operation Remote has been launched to help raise awareness of keyless car theft and provide advice and practical solutions for […]
Tring in Transition has opened its monthly Repair Café held at High Street Baptist Church Hall, Tring. Repair cafés are community events that match people who own broken or faulty household items, with skilled volunteers who like fixing things, saving items from landfill, and saving raw materials, energy and CO2 emissions. The Repair Café volunteers […]
St Peter’s church on the High Street in Berkhamsted celebrates its 800th birthday this year with a programme of activities to which all the community is invited. The church has witnessed the Crusades; Royalist soldiers being imprisoned inside during the Civil War; a cannon being hoisted onto the roof and fired to celebrate the Golden […]
A new force strategy to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG) has been agreed by police leaders in Hertfordshire ahead of International Women’s Day (8 March). Chief Constable Charlie Hall and David Lloyd, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire, signed off the new plan on Monday (7 March) which provides a roadmap for how […]
Local businesswoman, Louise Towler of Indigo Tree Digital named one of top female game-changing innovators and business leaders in UK, with national award win. Louise Towler, Managing Director of Indigo Tree Digital – a web design and development agency located in Tring, Hertfordshire – has been recognised as one of 38 top female innovative entrepreneurs […]
Drivers on one of the busiest stretches of motorway in the country can now enjoy the benefits of a new congestion-busting upgrade which was fully opened to traffic yesterday. A national speed limit of 70mph has been introduced on the M1, between junction 13 (Milton Keynes South) and Newport Pagnell services, following the opening of […]
College Lake Nature Reserve north of Tring had a starring role in a recent edition of the BBC’s Countryfile. Presenter John Craven met teenage conservation volunteers at the site who told him about their work and why they love doing it. Among those featured was 17-year-old Dylan, who goes to College Lake every Sunday to […]
Berkhamsted Osteopaths is celebrating 25 years of helping local residents with a wide variety of musculoskeletal symptoms from tension headaches to foot problems and sports injuries, as well as common back and neck pain. But Tim and Juliet Hanwell, who first opened the doors to their practice in March 1997, are reporting a rise in […]
After pausing in 2021 due to the pandemic, the CPRE Hertfordshire Awards are back. The ambition of the Awards is to recognise and celebrate inspirational people engaged in activities that enhance and protect the Hertfordshire countryside and its rural communities. With a closing date of 31 May 2022, they would love to receive nominations for […]
Northchurch resident Ben Morton contacted Berkhamsted Living because he wanted to say thank you to the townsfolk for their generosity. Ben is a former captain in the British Army and a Gulf War veteran. He now runs Ben Morton Leadership, as a leadership mentor and performance coach. At the end of last year, Ben spent […]
Vote for ‘Staying Connected’ in the People’s Choice voice before 10 March. Hertfordshire’s Staying Connected project has been shortlisted into the top 3 in the Digital Poverty category for the 6th Digital Leaders Impact Awards 2022. With almost 500 entries this year, competition was fiercer than ever before, so they are delighted to have been […]
Dacorum Borough Council is creating a memorial garden in Gadebridge Park in memory of residents who lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focal point of the garden will be a red-leaf Copper Beech tree, which was planted in October, surrounded by benches and wildflower planting to encourage a biodiverse, peaceful place for the community to […]