Naomi MacKay watched The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical at Milton Keynes Theatre – on until Sunday 7 September. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Rick Riordan first introduced readers to Percy Jackson – a reluctant hero with ADHD, dyslexia, and a knack for getting into trouble. Two decades, 180 million […]
Summer ended on a high at the Leighton Buzzard Railway with really popular events on the last two weekends of the summer holidays. August Bank Holiday weekend saw the return of the popular Pirates Days. Pages Park station became Treasure Island and Stonehenge was overtaken by a band of cutthroat pirates. Volunteers from the Leighton […]
Berkhamsted Poetry Society is launching the town’s first Festival of Verse this September in the canal-side gardens of The Old Mill pub. The headline show features award-winning performers John Hegley and Paul Cookson in An Evening Without George and Ringo. The festival is a celebration of creativity, language, and community. As well as live performances, […]
The new school year may just be about to start but it’s already time for parents and carers in Hertfordshire to start planning for next year as the application process for transfer to secondary schools opened yesterday (Monday 1 September). If your child starts secondary or upper school next year, or wishes to apply for […]
A young dancer has been going head over heels to raise funds in a bid to perform at Disneyland Paris. Isabella King, seven, has been training at HW Dance based at Victoria Hall in Tring for two years. The dance school has been invited by its sister school APPAS (Adele Peters Performing Arts School) to […]
The Hospice of St Francis’s filthiest fundraiser of the year, The Mud Pack Challenge, is celebrating its tenth year in October. The seven or fourteen kilometre obstacle course through the beautiful but very muddy grounds of Ashridge House takes place on Sunday 12 October and is open to anyone who wants to step out of […]
The Liberal Democrat MP for Harpenden and Berkhamsted, Victoria Collins, has criticised ‘profiteering’ by many private special educational needs providers, as the party calls for a cap on their profits to end the scandal. House of Commons Library research, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, has revealed that the top private equity companies providing SEND schooling […]
Wading through the calm waters of Lake Chichancanab in Mexico, aquarists from ZSL’s Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire were looking for any signs of tiny Mexican pupfish – but sadly, their surveys confirmed their worst fears; six of seven unique pupfish, including the boxer pupfish (Cyprinodon simus), are likely extinct in the wild. Following the frightening […]
Do you have a hidden treasure at home? Ever wondered what that family heirloom, car boot find, or curious collectible might really be worth? On Saturday 3 September 2025 from 2-5pm, Chiltern Open Air Museum invites you to a special antique valuation event with renowned antiques expert, broadcaster, and Museum Patron Eric Knowles, together with The […]
Lions, penguins, and a pygmy hippo were just some of the animals who had their vital statistics recorded at Whipsnade Zoo’s 2025 annual weigh-in last week (Thursday 21 August), as the conservation zoo brought over 11,000 animals to the weighing scales. Among those measured were a pride of ten northern African lions, including their seven […]
Melting Pot and Birmingham Rephave announced full casting for their thrilling co-production, Inspector Morse: House of Ghostscoming to Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Tue 25-Sat 29 Nov 2025. Led by the previously announced Tom Chambers (winner of BBC 1 Strictly Come Dancing’s series six and Inspector Edgar Sullivan in BBC 1’s Father Brown), who will play the beloved detective Inspector Morse, the production will play for one week at the Buckinghamshire […]
Seventeen ‘ninja’ swords were surrendered in Hertfordshire during a month-long national amnesty which ran during July. The amnesty was carried out as part of a change in the law which came into force on 1 August, making these kinds of weapons illegal to own in the UK. As part of the surrender scheme owners were […]