Want to find your new summer outfit? Then make sure to go along to Dacorum Borough Council’s summer clothes swap on 15 June 2024, during Great Big Green Week – a nationwide celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. The clothes swap event, which is being supported by Berkhamsted Town Council […]
This week is Diabetes Week (10-16 June), ahead of which a series of six short videos produced and presented by Hertfordshire-based lifestyle coach Monir Ali was released. Monir, who himself has type 2 diabetes, aims to inspire people to turn their type 2 diabetes around. The films, available in English and with subtitles in Bengali, […]
During the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the England football team found an unexpected mascot: a stray cat they named Dave. Among the team’s players and staff, John Stones and Kyle Walker were especially fond of the feline. The team’s affection for Dave grew so much that they decided to bring him back to the […]
Berkhamsted History Society will be celebrating its 75th anniversary next year, and would now like to build for the future a collection of more recent memories from the 20th and 21st centuries. Society members would love to hear from anyone who has memories of being in Berkhamsted during the past 75 years or longer, or […]
Significant increase in visitor numbers in recent years is causing wide-spread damage to the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Plans have been unveiled as part of the long-term strategy to help secure the future of the protected landscape Proposals include creating three new visitor hubs and an interim car park to reverse the damage caused […]
Discount supermarket Lidl has lodged an appeal against the rejection of its application to build a store on land at Icknield Way and Sears Drive. The application was refused by Dacorum Borough Council last September, with Tring Council adding its voice to the refusal with concerns including unsuitable access on a shared residential road, increased […]
Hertfordshire’s award-winning sustainable restaurant group has been selected to be the official restaurant partner of National Salad Week, taking place between 1-7 June. Unbeleafable, the first salad range grown in a vertical farm to be available in Tesco and other major UK supermarkets, has launched National Salad Week for the UK to encourage the UK […]
Now that the General Election campaign is underway, the Berkhamsted Citizens Association is planning its traditional Hustings for the residents of Berkhamsted to question and challenge their candidates for the election on 4 July. The event will be on Thursday 20 June 2024 at 8pm in the Great Hall of Berkhamsted Town Hall, the same […]
Win Top Trumps World Football Stars Starter Kits with Berkhamsted and Tring Living Magazines. Look out for the Summer issues to find out how to enter the competition – P40 in the Berkhamsted Living Magazine and P41 in Tring Living Magazine or visit our Competitions page. 20 Starter Kits are up for grabs! Jude Bellingham […]
Much-loved conductor, Colin Stevens, will be celebrating his 50th anniversary as musical director of Tring Choral Society, the Hertfordshire-based classical choir. Colin was only 27 when he took over the baton in 1974 from his father who had been the previous conductor of the choir. Colin’s formal musical training had taken place at Trinity College […]
In a bid to collectively recruit more foster carers to look after some of the region’s most vulnerable children, Hertfordshire County Council has joined forces with ten other local authorities in the East of England, in a new initiative for fostering under the banner Foster East. There is an urgent need for foster carers in […]
TV personality Robbie Cumming – presenter of ‘Canal Boat, Diaries’ – is to officially open the upgraded canal towpath from Wendover to Halton. The ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 1pm on Friday 28 June at the entrance from the towpath to Walnut Tree Meadow, and a host of other activities are planned to […]