The latest forecast of Hertfordshire County Council’s budget for the 2024/25 financial year will be presented to the Resources and Performance Cabinet Panel on 3 October 2024. The report estimates an overspend of just under £1 million for the current financial year. The council’s prudent financial planning, which included a £20 million contingency fund built […]
Local attraction Chiltern Open Air Museum, who have recently been awarded a Certificate of Excellence in the Tripadvisor Traveller’s Choice Awards 2024, is hosting its annual Traditional Harvest event on 28 and 29 September, 10am to 5pm. COAM is home to over thirty rescued historic buildings spanning more than two thousand years of history, from […]
Conservative Party leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat MP met Conservative Party members in Hertfordshire as part of his tour of local associations across the UK. During his visit, he pledged to local members and activists that as the Leader of the Party he would serve both them and the British people, lead the Party with traditional […]
Scammers have been taking advantage of new rules introduced to protect consumers making online payments. From 7 October 2024 new rules mean that fraud victims who have lost money via Authorised Push Payments (APP) should be able to recover their money due to a new mandatory reimbursement scheme. Under the new rules, all payment service […]
Victoria Collins MP has said the Lord Darzi report into the state of the NHS must be a wake-up call for the government to rescue health and services in Berkhamsted. The report said that the NHS is in a ‘critical condition’ and that since 2015, the NHS has missed every target for A&E, cancer and […]
People with type 2 diabetes are being invited to join an innovative programme to treat the condition. The ‘Path to Remission’ plan is a 12-month, evidence-based programme to support people with Type 2 diabetes to lose weight and better control their blood sugar levels. This reduces the need for diabetes-related medication and potentially achieving remission […]
Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity is supporting Sustainable Fashion Week from 20-29 September. With 13 charity shops across Buckinghamshire and a new electric van to move items around the county, the Charity is firmly committed to supporting sustainable living. Imperfectly Perfect is a new campaign which promotes those clothes which have small fixable flaws. This week […]
Hertfordshire County Council has submitted to the government an Expression of Interest in a devolution deal for the county. The county is seeking devolution of the powers and funding that will enable the council to increase investment in priority areas such as transport links, education, health and natural environment to ensure Hertfordshire’s communities and businesses […]
In the approach to World Rivers Day, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is championing the importance of restoring the health of the area’s rare chalk river habitats. World Rivers Day is an annual event held on the fourth Sunday in September – this year falling on 22 September. A celebration of the world’s waterways, the […]
Make a date for Tring Book Festival, running from 1-17 November. Events will take place at various venues around the town, including High Street Baptist Church, The Kings Arms’ Coach House and The DEMBE Theatre (formerly The Court Theatre). All featured authors have new books out this autumn. The line-up includes the likes of Gyles […]
The rollout of new pay as you go with contactless technology which had been due to go live at 14 stations operated by London Northwestern Railway (LNR) this month has been delayed, it has been confirmed. The stations, including Berkhamsted, Bletchley and Hemel Hempstead, are among dozens of locations across the south-east of England which […]
Fraudsters posing as police officers have been contacting residents in Hertfordshire in recent weeks. Since the beginning of August fraudsters managed to scam victims out of more than £135,000, by posing as police officers and asking them to hand over their bank cards or cash to a courier. One resident from Bishop’s Stortford suffered a […]