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The Holwell Scarecrow Festival will be returning this year, with minor adjustments made to account for public safety and social distancing.

Following yesterday’s announcement that many UK cinemas are expected to reopen from July 4, the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth has said it is “keen to open as soon as possible.”

The Met Office has issued a yellow warning after the weather service forecast thunderstorms for Hertfordshire later this week.

More than 4,500 jobs could be lost at the ground handling firm due to coronavirus effects on air travel.

Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City and Watford Central libraries will have collection services available from Monday, July 6 – allowing users to collect a pre-selected book pack to read at home.

The man got into difficulty in a stretch of the river in Berkshire on Tuesday evening, police say.

A Hitchin man is encouraging members of the community to get involved with his fancy dress challenge, as the UK approaches 100 days of being in lockdown.

The McDonald’s restaurant at Baldock services reopened for takeaway this morning, and is one of 280 locations across the country now taking walk-in orders.

A Hitchin teenager has pleaded guilty to racially abusing a former Stevenage FC steward, after he called him a ‘monkey’ and other racial slurs.

An urgent funding appeal to save the Letchworth Settlement from closure has received a “very promising” reaction, since news of its imminent closure spread last week.

Three stripy tiger cubs, who were born two years ago today, were given a giant block of frozen blood and water along with a hand-crafted birthday sign at their home at Whipsnade Zoo.

The man was called a monkey and the N-word as he approached a fan who had a flare, court hears.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson eases the lockdown, reduces social distancing and gives business the go-ahead

Stevenage sign striker Inih Effiong following his release by National League side Dover Athletic.

Two trains nearly crash when one travels in the wrong direction on a London Underground track.

The police sergeant faces an allegation relating to a period of time between 2007 and 2012.

No COVID-19 deaths have been recorded at East and North Herts NHS Trust hospitals since June 10, the longest period without a death since early March.

USA fly-half Will Hooley agrees to join Saracens from Bedford Blues for next season.

A former Hatfield police officer has been charged with one count of sexual activity with a child.

Intu, owner of the Trafford, Braehead and Lakeside shopping centres, puts administrators on standby.