Dacorum Borough Council’s Big Painting Challenge was held on Monday 2 September in the Jellicoe Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead. The event was open to amateur artists who had some experience. The eight participants were supported by a professional art tutor Niki Bell. Their challenge was to capture the spirit of Susan Jellicoe’s colourful planting scheme […]
After a long time in the planning, the Tring Neighbourhood Watch card protector is finally available to buy! ‘Most credit and debit cards have a built-in contactless payment technology called RFID, where physical contact with your card is not required to take a payment and can be scanned from a few centimetres away by anyone,’ […]
Hemel Food Garden will be buzzing with life on Saturday 7 September, 11am-3pm. Join the Sunnyside Rural Trust team, the Mayor of Dacorum and friends from the bee-loving community to celebrate bees at ‘Give Bees a Chance’ Family Fun Day. Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun day of Bee-themed activities; make a Bee […]
As we’ve mentioned previously, a brand new book festival is coming to Tring this autumn – and it looks set to be a stellar event. Running from 8-17 November, it will include authors, actors, politicians, poets and opinion formers including poet Carol-Ann Duffy (pictured), actor Ben Miller and TV anthropologist Dr Alice Roberts, who will appear […]
WheelPower, the National Charity for Wheelchair Sport are hosting their annual National Junior Games (NJG) 2019 from 30 September – 3 October at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement. The primary focus of the National Junior Games is to encourage the disabled children who take part in the Games to lead a […]
The temporary car park on the Moor seems to have been closed more often than it’s been open. Meanwhile, work on the new multistorey continues. Originally it was due to be completed in November, but this is now forecast to be February 2020. ‘The construction period was agreed to be 32 weeks once all of […]
Wille Edwards; Cornwall based musician, eclectic songwriter, and front man of internationally acclaimed band Wille and the Bandits will embark on a solo tour of the UK in November. In the lead-up to Christmas, he hopes to use the tour to raise awareness of homelessness in the UK and help raise money through a charity […]
Last Sunday, 1 September, marked one of the most important dates in the Bletchley Park calendar. The Annual Veterans’ Reunion welcomed over 75 former wartime staff back to Bletchley Park, the once top-secret World War Two base, exactly 80 years to the day since Hitler invaded Poland, marking the start of World War Two. Two […]
Living Magazines’ publisher Alison Page also runs Alison Page Marketing (APM), a PR and marketing agency in Tring – and it has just turned 10! Alison decided to do something dramatic to celebrate – jumping out of a plane at 13,000ft to raise money for The Hospice of St Francis! ‘I’ve always wanted to do […]
So what is it all about? Sourdough September is promoted by The Real Bread campaign which is part of the food and farming charity Sustain. So if you haven’t tried any before, this month might be a perfect time to start! Thanks so much to Toby at Beechwood Fine Foods in Tring for writing this […]
Kings Langley Parish Council has applied to Dacorum Borough Council to write a Neighbourhood Plan for the parish. This plan will consider how and where future development could take place in the parish. Dacorum Borough Council is asking for Kings Langley residents’ views on whether the proposed plan area is appropriate. If the area is […]
On Friday 6 September, Jonathan Lane and Pippa Hutchinson of SR Consulting are holding a ‘Six Steps To Business Happiness’ seminar. The event is being held at the Gateway in Aylesbury. It is free to attend with free parking and registration begins at 8.45am with refreshments. The event will finish by 10.30am. Over the course […]