Highlights from the world’s most prestigious nature photography exhibition will open at the Natural History Museum at Tring on 11 November 2023. The annual exhibition returns to Tring running until 28 April 2024. Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year features 19 captivating images, depicting the rich diversity of life on earth. Interpretation and Exhibitions Manager, Natural History Museum at Tring, Claire Walsh said: […]
Funds contributed from Hertfordshire County Councillor Locality Budgets have helped to support local sports clubs with a range of initiatives, activities, and premises improvements. Projects supported include a range of fitness and wellbeing initiatives, football for children with physical and neuro-diverse challenges and boxing for young people. Each of the grants provide much-needed funds for […]
The Chilterns Neuro Centre is delighted to form a new association with Steering Developments, a provider of life-enhancing vehicle adaptations to help people with disabilities remain driving. The association will enable the Centre to better support its members in leading more independent lives. Driving and vehicle access is such an important part of our lives […]
Two new bus saver cards have been unveiled by Hertfordshire County Council and the Intalink partnership opening up discounts on bus fares. This is being funded from the Bus Service Improvement Plan and the Department for Transport. The new Senior Savercard will enable those over 60 years old to obtain significant discounts on multi-operator tickets. […]
Game4Padel, the UK’s leading padel business, will be officially opening two new padel courts this November at Chesham 1879 Lawn Tennis & Squash Club. Padel is reported to be the world’s fastest growing sport which is now played in over 100 countries around the world, by an estimated 25 million players. It is estimated that […]
Naomi MacKay was ready to take that and party at the jukebox musical Greatest Days at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Jukebox musicals sometimes suffer from a weak or contrived storyline, as the writers try to fit specific songs into the set, but Greatest Days creator Tim Firth cleverly took another tack, by making it all about […]
The ‘Big Recycling Hunt’ was held in the Marlowes Shopping Centre last month to mark the start of Recycle Week, an annual campaign which is a celebration of recycling across the UK. The event, organised by Dacorum Borough Council in conjunction with Hemel Hempstead Business Improvement District (BID), was on Saturday 14 October. On the […]
Naomi MacKay watched a quartet of West End Joseph stars bring the magic of the musicals to a packed audience at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury. I have a confession, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is not my favourite musical – too much singing it in the primary school choir is probably to blame – […]
Dacorum Borough Council’s third Dacorum Climate Action Network (Dacorum CAN) annual networking event is being held on Monday 20 November. The event, to be staged at The Forum, Hemel Hempstead, from 6pm to 8.30pm, is for residents to speak to like-minded people and organisations, with this year’s theme being ‘Community Climate Action’. There will be […]
Berkhamsted-based pickleball club, West Herts Wizards, built on their recent successes at the England Open with an abundance of medals at the England Nationals Pickleball Championships in Bolton. Over four days of competition against 600 players from across the UK, the Wizards picked up 5 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 5 bronze medals. Club […]
Hertfordshire County Council is calling on local businesses to support young people in the county with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to increase their skills by providing workplace opportunities. A new Hertfordshire SEND Employment Forum, taking place online on Wednesday 22 November at 10am, provides an opportunity for local businesses to learn from others […]
Dacorum Borough Council has marked the completion of six new council homes in Tring. The homes are a mixture of two and three-bedroom houses, providing much-needed housing for social rent in the sought after village of Wilstone. One house is fully accessible. The homes are on under-used Council land and are designed to complement the […]