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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.

Stars of the show: do you know on which TV talent show the Loveable Rogues found fame?

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.

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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.

Multicultural Evening at Nash Mills School;
 
1/.  Polish and Scots costumes all in the same family.  Kevin and Ela Bryson with Emily, ten, and Adam, six.
 
2/.+ 3/. Years Nash Mills pupils did Bollywood dancing.

4/+ 6/.   Indian food from all over the sub continent
 
5/.    Kenyan family Christian Mulamula,left, and the Kanyanga family, Aggrey and Eunice and their children
Alicia, ten, and Eldright, six.

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.

Flat fire in Lower Kings Road, Berkhamsted. 
Picture by Jim Garnett.

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 rss

Ringway workers Colin Price and Jez Harris spent a morning with the Gazette demonstrating pothole repairs.

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.

Annabel Francis
Circles East of England
Norfolk & Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, 
Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire Probation Areas

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 rss

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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.

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Matt Adcock’s film review: Man Of Steel video

What if a film dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?

Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock

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.

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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.

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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 rss

Reggie (seated centre) and his platoon and was taken on 3 June 1917 at Wormhoudt.  Many of the men in his platoon came from the Hemel Hempstead area.

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 rss

Beechwood Fine Foods Toby Murray

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.

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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.

Harvest time at St Agnells Farm, Cupid Green, in 1939.  (Courtesy of the Stanbridge family).

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.

Diana filming with Naomi Watts in Hemel - Adeyfield Square by Jim Garnett

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.

Mike Penning is delighted as work starts on Old Town one-way system.

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 rss

Beechwood Fine Foods Toby Murray

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.

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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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Treelife, winners of Dacorum Business of the Year at the FSB Hertfordshire Awards. Pictures: Szpak Photography http://www.szpak.co.uk

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.

Winners of Retailer of the Year at the Hertfordshire FSB Awards, Ronnie Sunshine. Pictures: Szpak Photography http://www.szpak.co.uk

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.

Harvest time at St Agnells Farm, Cupid Green, in 1939.  (Courtesy of the Stanbridge family).

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 rss

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 rss

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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