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There was family fun aplenty at Hitchin’s Walsworth Festival on Sunday, much to the delight of organisers.

The motorway is closed from junction 14 for Milton Keynes to junction 13 for Bedford.

Parents will march in protest of inadequate support for children with special educational needs in Hertfordshire next Thursday.

Cemeren Yilmaz was filmed as he lay dying after being stabbed and attacked with a hammer.

The event was kept secret to protect the identities of the riders from security agency GCHQ.

A former Paralympian who is registered as blind is getting ready to participate in the first Great Hertfordshire Area of Natural Beauty Marathon organised by Garden House Hospice Care.

Hundreds of under-75s have died from stroke and heart disease in East and North Hertfordshire in recent years as progress in reducing death rates for the conditions slows, new figures show.

A Walkern woman has been praised by the Prime Minister for her work helping terminally ill patients after setting up a charity in her mother’s memory.

A charity is appealing for help with its project to ship a library to Kenya to give villagers in a deprived community the opportunity to read.

A 58-year-old man from Stevenage has been arrested on suspicion of tax fraud as part of an operation which saw 50 HM Revenue and Customs officers search business premises and residential addresses in towns including Stevenage.

This weekend’s Duxford Air Festival will celebrate 75 years of the jet engine.

Luton's "emerging from grey" Arts Council-funded artwork is painted over with grey paint.

Drugs, guns, knives and cash were seized by police across the UK in week-long operation.

Benjamin Field has denied conspiracy to murder an 83-year-old woman to benefit from her will.

Hitchin and Letchworth outdoor swimming pools will officially open for the summer season on Saturday, 25 May. The pools’ opening coincides with the half-term school holiday, which starts Monday, 27 May.

Letchworth Food & Drink Festival is back this weekend and bigger than ever with more than 80 traders and stalls set to bring food, drink and entertainment.

Hundreds of dental scaling patients are offered blood tests over fears about unclean equipment.

CCTV images have been released after a woman’s purse was stolen in Stevenage town centre.

Officers said the same Nissan GTR was caught with illegal number plates in April.

The deputy head of a Stevenage school, who could be described as “a piece of the furniture”, is retiring after more than two decades of service.