Dacorum Borough Council has retained its five Green Flag awards for its parks and open spaces. The award is the benchmark national standard for parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom. Previous winners Canal Fields in Berkhamsted and Tring Memorial Gardens were once again each awarded a Green Flag – the mark of a […]
Dacorum Borough Council’s Business Heroes and Dacorum’s Den winners were recognised at a special awards ceremony at Little Hay Golf Club on Friday 19 July. The 2019 Business Heroes – the companies who contribute the most to the community, their staff and the environment – were celebrated over afternoon tea. Residents and businesses across the […]
Give your family a dose of Vitamin N(ature) this summer holiday with a wide range of fantastic events and activities from the Chiltern Society to help you explore this beautiful area. Teddy Bears’ Picnic 6 August 10am-12noon Captain’s Wood, Chesham, Buckinghamshire HP5 2XJ United Kingdom Bring your favourite teddy bear along for a morning of […]
Lockers Park has been celebrating academic success this month. The highly-regarded Preparatory School is proud to announce that once again it has achieved a fantastic 100% pass rate for its Common Entrance examinations, with all 25 pupils securing places at their chosen schools. The academic accomplishments see the school’s Year 8 pupils once again moving […]
Our thanks to Berkhamsted Citizens Association for this news item. The increasing number of empty units in the town centre is a worrying trend. Closures seem to be on the up at present – Porters, Santander, Luminous & Vogue, Zebra, the Berkeley Gallery, Coral, Makana. The latest retail unit to voice concern over its future […]
We previously brought you the news that Dacorum Heritage Trust had received a grant from SHARE Museums East for a project exploring Hidden Histories which would include research into Kodak’s role in the New Town of Hemel Hempstead. Dates have now been set for an exhibition telling the history of Kodak and photography in Dacorum. […]
Pet wellbeing company, Paws.com, provides advice on how to look after your dog in this blistering heat. The RSPCA received 8290 calls relating to animals and heat exhaustion last year. Today is reported to be the hottest day that the UK has ever seen with some areas looking to see highs of 39 degrees. Thousands […]
Our thanks to Gordon Bluck of Berkhamsted Citizens Association for this news item. Members may remember that the Association has been producing a Fieldpath map since the 1937 edition was published by Edward Stanford Ltd of Long Acre in sections mounted on linen. All this for a princely 3/-; that’s three shillings to you and […]
Staff at Breakspear Park have had their palates tantalised and tickled this week, as the team at Britvic challenged the building’s employees to take the Pepsi Max Taste Challenge. The Pepsi Challenge has run for more than 40 years, and is a blind taste test between Pepsi and the UK’s largest-selling cola to establish which […]
It’s that time of year again, when all around the UK thousands of school children breathe a sigh of relief…….whilst parents take a large intake of breath, in preparation for the long 6 to 8 weeks that lie ahead! Whilst the summer holidays bring lots of opportunities for fun, with days spent playing in the […]
Our thanks to Berkhamsted Citizens Association for this news item. “A piling rig, A piling rig, my kingdom for a piling rig!” as Shakespeare [Richard III, Act V, scene IV] might (not) have said…. At long last, a piling rig has finally arrived on the Multi-storey Car Park site on Lower Kings Road and works […]
Hemel Hempstead MP, Sir Mike Penning, congratulated Boris Johnson on becoming the new Leader of the Conservative Party yesterday ahead of becoming Prime Minister today. Sir Mike, who backed Boris from the start of the campaign, said: ‘I am delighted that Boris secured such a resounding victory in the leadership campaign. With the support of […]