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‘Issues being addressed’ at Bennetts End care home
A private care home says it is addressing ‘issues’ raised during a visit by the health and social care watchdog.
Would you like to meet boy band Loveable Rogues?
Organisers of Tring music festival Chilfest have launched a competition to give one lucky family a chance to meet the Loveable Rogues.
Police called to break down door amid concerns for safety
The door of a home had to be forced open by police after carers heard a personal safety alarm sounding.
Nash Mills School hosts multicultural evening video
A sell out evening saw a school community come together to celebrate the many different cultures of its pupils and parents.
Firefighters battle Berkhamsted flat blaze
Firefighters are currently at the scene of a bedroom blaze in Berkhamsted. Crews were called to the four storey block of flats in Lower Kings Road just after 3pm today.
Features
A day with Ringway: Just how are those pesky potholes dealt with? video
They took over the contract to manage the maintenance of Hertfordshire’ highways in October.
Even sex offenders need friends
Most of us have a network of family and friends that we can depend on – they’re the ones we call on in times of need.
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Columnists
Alan Dee: Picking away at the scab of my sticker sensibility
Last week, regular readers – and presumably the Pentagon – will be aware, I went on at some length about the irritation I was being forced to endure by a cash dispenser which only gave me a split second to grab my receipt before retracting it into the bowls of the machine in a bid to avoid littering.
Matt Adcock’s film review: Man Of Steel video
What if a film dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?
Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Hitchcock
HITCHCOCK (12: 20th Century Fox), a fact-based account of the making of the famous film director’s Psycho, is a disappointingly inconsequential affair.
Alan Dee’s movie preview: Man Of Steel, Admission video
Let’s be honest, when the version of Superman which most of us have hot-wired into our cinematic memory banks first hit the screen, we didn’t believe a man could fly despite what the tagline claimed.
NHS changes offer picture of progress
It might have escaped your notice but some significant changes to the organisation of health services came into place a few weeks ago.
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Heritage
Herts At War: ‘We only have one chance to do justice to their sacrifice’
A county-wide initiative which plans to tell the story of Hertfordshire life during the First World War, both at home and on the front, is now under way to help mark the centenary of the outbreak of the cataclysmic conflict.
Videos
Customers share in Beechwood birthday bash video
A specialist delicatessen and cafe marked its birthday with a party – and invited customers along to share in the celebration.
Countdown to Chilfest as ticket sales surge video
If you’re planning to be among the crowds at Chilfest, get your skates on - you’ve only got 10 days left to buy tickets over the internet.
Free night of entertainment at village church marks 175th anniversary video
Agriculture was the mainstay of the people who lived in this area from the earliest times.
Get a sneak peak of Diana movie, which saw top stars come to Hemel Hempstead for filming video
Here’s a sneak peak at the blockbuster film Diana, which saw production crews descend on Hemel Hempstead for filming.
Old Town is headed in one direction for MP video
Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning has expressed his delight at seeing work on the project he first campaigned for in 2008 finally get started.
Business
Customers share in Beechwood birthday bash video
A specialist delicatessen and cafe marked its birthday with a party – and invited customers along to share in the celebration.
Tailbacks on M1 as man injured in lorry-caravan smash
There was ‘not much left’ of the caravan being towed by a Volvo after a smash with a lorry on the M1, say police.
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Video: When the going gets tough, the tough get up and get on with it video
A Dacorum business believes when times are tough you’ve got to get up and get on with it.
Video: Ray of Sunshine for gun trade as Ronnie aims high video
A Berkhamsted rifle, archery, knife and outdoor store is on a mission to change the way guns are viewed in the community.
Free night of entertainment at village church marks 175th anniversary video
Agriculture was the mainstay of the people who lived in this area from the earliest times.
Regional
Garden open day to help fundraising
The fragrant and colour co-ordinated garden of a couple's picture-postcard Staffordshire home is to be opened to the public to help raise money for a Cambridgeshire-based charity.
Projects receive lottery funding
Homeless young people in Luton will be helped to access mental health services thanks to a Big Lottery Fund grant.
Rare bird sparks chaos in villages
Police were called to a nature reserve in Suffolk after hundreds of twitchers descended to catch a glimpse of a rare bird.
Palace frock dilemma for potter
Transvestite potter Grayson Perry, from Essex, has said he is already thinking about what frock to wear when he goes to the palace to pick up his CBE.
Clean water pioneer given an MBE
The Essex-based inventor of a bottle designed to produce safe sterile drinking water anywhere in the world has been given an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
National
Ex-soldier guilty of further rapes
A convicted date rapist has been sentenced to life imprisonment for three more rapes on teenage women, Scotland Yard said.
85,000 support Woolwich medals bid
A petition backed by more than 85,000 people calling for bravery medals to be given to three women who intervened in the aftermath of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby has been delivered to Downing Street.
Wet summers due to warmer Atlantic
Recent wet summers in the UK may have been caused by a major warming of the North Atlantic Ocean, leading scientists and meteorologists have said.
Army job losses 'kick in the teeth'
More than 4,000 soldiers have been told that they have lost their jobs in the latest round of Army redundancies.
Knox acquittal 'full of mistakes'
The acquittal of accused murderer Amanda Knox was full of "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions Italy's high court has ruled, ordering a fresh look at all the evidence to determine whether she did kill her flatmate Meredith Kercher.
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Weather for Hemel Hempstead
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Today
Light rain
Temperature: 14 C to 21 C
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