How to vote:

POST: Send a postcard, with the
name and number of your favourite
shop and your details, to Community
Shop Competition, Newspaper House,
39 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead,
Herts, HP1 1LH.

EMAIL: Email the name
and number of your
favourite shop to
sue.boyce@ccnltd.com

CALL: Tell us your
favourite on 0901 111 2123
(Calls cost 25p plus your
usual network charges).

TEXT: Text BCS, space,
and the number of your
chosen shop to 81800
(Texts cost 25p plus your
usual network charges).


Voting will close at midnight on Tuesday, July 8.


All phone, text, post and email votes received after July 8 will not count.

On Wednesday, July 16, we will reveal the two shops with the highest scores and put them to the public vote to find the winner.

In addition to a framed Best Community Shop certificate, the winner will receive a night for two in Marylebone's five star Landmark London Hotel.

The prize includes dinner in the hotel's Winter Garden restaurant and full English breakfast, plus one-day guest passes to its spa and health club.

The winner will also receive tickets to see new multi-million pound West End musical, Zorro.


News Box, Market Square, Hemel Hempstead - 001

M&S Butchers, Stoneycroft, Hemel Hempstead - 002

NISA, Apsley Lock, Hemel Hempstead - 003

NISA, Crabtree Lane, Hemel Hempstead - 004

Warners End Newsagent, Stoneycroft, Hemel Hempstead - 005

One-Stop, Northchurch, Berkhamsted - 006

John's Hairdresser, Bennetts Gate, Hemel Hempstead - 007

Costcutter, Rossgate, Hemel Hempstead - 008

Nash Chemist, Long Chaulden, Hemel Hempstead - 009

Fancy That, High Street, Tring - 010

VAH DIY Supplies, High Street, Berkhamsted - 011

Costcutter, High Street, Bovingdon - 012

Superdown Ltd, Queen's Square, Hemel Hempstead - 013

The Village Shop and Post Office, Little Gaddesden - 014

Four Acres Nursery, Hemel Hempstead Road, Dagnall - 015

Swami News, Queen's Square, Hemel Hempstead - 016

Amanda Jane, Queen's Square, Hemel Hempstead - 017

Cafe Tiki, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead - 018

The Village Store, Church Road, Potten End - 019

Post Office and Supermarket, Chapel Croft, Chipperfield - 020

High Spirits, High Street, Hemel Hempstead - 021

Rumblers Farm Shop, Potten End Hill - 022

Co-op, The Heights, Hemel Hempstead - 023

TJ's, Bennetts Gate, Hemel Hempstead - 024

Wilstone Village Stores & Post Office, Wilstone, Tring - 025

Buggsy's hair salon, The Denes, Hemel Hempstead - 026

Eastwoods butchers, Gravel Path, Berkhamsted - 027

Clare James Health Foods, High Street, Kings Langley - 028

Nelson's Butchers, Queens Square, Hemel Hempstead - 029

Spar, Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead - 030

Arazzamatazz, The Heights, Hemel Hempstead - 031

Todays Convenience Store, Bennetts End, Hemel Hempstead - 032

Gadebridge Pharmacy, Rossgate, Hemel Hempstead - 033

Co-op, Queen's Square, Hemel Hempstead - 034

Hemel Wine Merchant, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead - 035

Apsley News, London Road, Hemel Hempstead - 036

Mandy's, Northend, Hemel Hempstead - 037