Local News

Nottingham Forest sign Romanian international goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon and Iranian winger Ashkan Dejagah.

Watford sign midfielder Didier Ndong on loan from Sunderland until the end of the season.

Watford forward Isaac Success, a club record signing when he arrived from Granada for £12.5m, has moved on loan for the rest of the season.

One of Letchworth’s longest running businesses is set to close after 82 years of trading in Leys Avenue.

Almost 300 workers face losing their jobs under the proposals which would see the sites close in 2019.

Milton Keynes ice hockey player Matt Nickerson banned for 20 games for abusing an official and punching a fan.

Justin Clarke was arrested in Berlin in 2016 over the shooting of a man near St Albans in 1993.

A 55-year-old man has been charged with four offences after an incident at Hitchin railway station allegedly involving a machete.

A development of 149 homes has been proposed for two fields on the northern edge of a village between Shefford and Hitchin.

Lincoln City sign winger Tom Pett on a two-and-a-half-year contract from League Two rivals Stevenage.

Greg Rutherford will make his competitive return to athletics at February's Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow.

League Two leaders Luton Town sign Liverpool defender Lloyd Jones for an undisclosed fee on a two-and-a-half-year deal.

A veteran from Henlow who lost his legs to a Taliban bomb in Afghanistan has been nominated for a royal award recognising his achievements in handcycling.

Modern-day Good Samaritans stepped in to help a homeless man who was bleeding heavily at Stevenage railway station last night, and may have saved his life.

Arla will spend £5.5m on its Scottish site as part of wider spending plans across the UK this year.

A 23-year-old Stevenage man has been handed a fine after a violent assault in the Old Town in which he punched a victim twice.

Hitchin’s new school uniform shop formally opened on Friday, following the closure of longtime outfitters Hawkins.

Two drivers have been taken to hospital after a crash at a notorious junction on the outskirts of Stevenage this morning.

Who is Zen? It’s a question you may well have asked yourself if you’ve wandered around Hitchin in the past few weeks.

The Lister Hospital in Stevenage is consistently failing to provide sufficient care hours to patients, according to a national benchmark.