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Discussions around changing Herts's councils continue

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Council celebrates 'landmark' reconnection of Hemel Hempstead chalk stream

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Find out how much your council tax will go up from April 1

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Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

Respond to the Dacorum LCWIP consultation by 23 Marchplaceholder image

Have your say on active travel and help ease congestion

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Council submits Local Plan to Government after public consultation

'Council spent £16m on a bridge to nowhere. It's a dangerous mess'placeholder image

£16m bridge leads to 'dangerous' deep mud...it looks like a warzone

A car dealer must pay more than £9,000 in fines and costs after a visitor to his premises was seriously injured when he fell down an unprotected drop. placeholder image

Man falls down 6ft drop and gets 'seriously' injured at car dealership

A road left so badly damaged by a landslip it was closed to cars can't be fixed properly - as it's still moving a YEAR later. placeholder image

Britain's 'wonkiest road' destroyed by landslip finally set to reopen

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Land Rover driver rams workman and sends him 'flying into a bush'

Between January 2023 and June 2024, nearly 5,000 dogs and over 20,000 cats were reported missing. placeholder image

How to find a missing dog: 6 tips on what to do if your dog gets lost

Between January 2023 and June 2024, nearly 5,000 dogs were reported missing 🐶

Sarah McCann

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Council ordered to pay £1,200 to family for distressing education plan delays

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Council turns the page on newspapers in libraries in move towards digital

Worcester City Council insists the tree in Columbia Drive poses no immediate risk and has issued a protection order for it. Inset: Chris Davis placeholder image

'Menacing' 100ft tree could crush my home but council won't chop it

Peter and Patricia Clarke outside their home in Grange Park, Swindon, which has been flooded 20 times over the past three years.placeholder image

Our home has flooded 20 times...it's like Niagara Falls when it rains

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year. placeholder image

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway. placeholder image

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

Mohamed Fawzi is the Labour candidate for Hemel Hempstead Town ward. Credit: Labour party.placeholder image

Meet the candidates vying to become a councillor in Hemel at next by-election

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Video shows devastating tip blaze caused by a single e-bike battery

Phil Austin has built a lighthouse in the middle of Salford - 30 miles away from the nearest coast.placeholder image

I was refused planning permission for a home...so I built a LIGHTHOUSE

Mohamed and David Taylor MP with the team from Yalla Yalla on the Old Town High Street.placeholder image

Mohamed Fawzi announced as Labour’s candidate for the Town Ward by-election.

Furious resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire, is embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row.placeholder image

Our council want £100k to fix road with 32 potholes...we're furious!

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway. placeholder image

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Betty Calloway (90) from Stirchley, who has issues with an overgrown council hedge that has turned her dream move into a nightmare. placeholder image

Overgrown hedge is 'swallowing' my garden...I'm fuming

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Labour announce candidate for Bennetts End by-election

Retired bank worker, Nick Wisniewski, 66, is the last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' which is all due to be knocked down - but he's refusing to move.placeholder image

'I'm not moving!' Council move to evict man on derelict estate

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Petition launched to reopen beloved Grade II listed Hemel Hempstead building

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Watch: School absence fines rise details explained

Watch as reporter Lauren Tiller details the rise to school absence fines - as 57% of parents said they have or would consider their child missing school for a day or more for a holiday.

Jessica Martin

Video grab of a rat infested alleyway off Franciscan Road in Tooting, south London. October 2 2024. placeholder image

I passed a swarm of rats on the school run...it was disgusting!

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Council investigates 'hidden' number of women rough sleeping in Hertfordshire

West Sussex landscaper Harry Smith-Haggett, 22, has been filling in Horsham's potholes with flowers dubbed 'pretty potholes'. placeholder image

'I made my roads pretty!' Pothole flowerbed service goes viral

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Council plans to reduce number of primary school places in Hertfordshire

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted. placeholder image

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate

A desperate man claims a council is doing "nothing" after his mould-ridden flat left a relative hospitalised.placeholder image

Inside our mould-ridden council flat which left a relative in hospital

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Huge mountain of fly-tipped rubbish attracts 'rats the size of cats'

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Hemel Hempstead to host special event celebrating 50 years of Dacorum

Councillor Ron Tindall has been suspendedplaceholder image

Former Dacorum Borough Council leader suspended following misconduct allegations

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Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.placeholder image

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

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Dacorum Borough Council moves to vegetarian internal catering

Lime trees growing either side of High Street in Henley-in-Arden, Warks., had their tops hacked off without notice leaving locals “devastated”.placeholder image

Residents left furious after council "butchers" trees to save cash

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Thousands of households to receive direct payments of up to £500

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1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

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Watch: Firefighters tackle huge blaze at former DWP office

Ben Newman The Spudman, who has built an online community of two million people on TikTok selling jacket potatoes at his trailer in Tamworth. placeholder image

Watch: Tiktok's Spudman gets kicked off his patch by local council

TikTok sensation Spudman has spoke of his frustration after being booted off his pitch where he has been trading from for the last 21 years by the local council.

Lucinda Herbert

New Hertfordshire County Council chief executive Angie Ridgwellplaceholder image

County Council appoints new chief executive after 'competitive process'

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Watch: Gas cannister explodes and is sent flying at binman

Councillors after the first meeting of Hertfordshire County Council in May 1974 (Picture from Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Hertfordshire County Council)placeholder image

Herts County Council set to mark 50th anniversary of first meeting

Tim Webb, 66, is trying to highlight the pothole issue - by photographing toys at some of the 'greatest' pothole sites in his local area.placeholder image

Pothole tourist turns road defects into mini works of art

The demolition of Cliff Farm in Trimingham. May 10 2024. placeholder image

Watch: Farmhouse hanging over cliff edge gets demolished

Rae Boxley, 51, has been trapped in her home by badgers but the council won't help because they are a protected specieplaceholder image

Badgers have kept me prisoner in my mouldy home for 12 years

Michael Perkins is fighting for right to park on his own drive in Warndon, Worcesterplaceholder image

Watch: Council ban owner of 'eyesore' motorhome from parking on drive

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Tring's Community Gardens and Allotments get a signage boost from the Repair She...

Destiny Mitchell, 26, is homeless and has turned a bus stop into a temporary home on the Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham. placeholder image

Watch: Our home is a disused bus shelter...it's going to be demolished

Protest sign at a roundabout on Eastern Way in Daventry - A series of protest signs highlighting the Daventry pothole problem by the mystery campaigner. placeholder image

Mystery pothole artist mocks council with funny road signs

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