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There were smiles all-round at a Hitchin pre-school when they held a special events week.

A road is closed in Knebworth after a crash involving a car and a van, with an air ambulance landing at the scene to help assist four casualties.

Fundraisers will get covered in colour, splashed with water and smothered in foam while supporting hospice care in Stevenage later this month.

Hitchin MP Bim Afolami has welcomed Monday’s announcement from education secretary Justine Greening that the core budget will be increased for schools across the UK.

A Hitchin tea room turned red, white and blue last week, but not for the colours of the Union jack.

‘Not all superheroes wear capes!’ – that was the message from the proud friends of a Hitchin lifeguard who saved the lives of two teenagers on Monday.

A drunk driver who was caught at the wheel in a village near Hitchin while more than three times the alcohol limit is now behind bars.

The five-year-old daughter of a man diagnosed with motor neurone disease has taken part in a sponsored colour run at her school and helped raise more than £1,000 for treatment to help extend her dad’s life.

The man was airlifted to hospital after falling from the roof of St Albans City FC's ground.

The parents of a 21-year-old girl from Letchworth who died when staff botched the assembly of her breathing apparatus say they want the hospice where she was cared for shut down and culpable staff struck off.

The owner of troubled firm Chambers Coaches has apologised to customers – including students from a number of Stevenage schools – affected by a series of recent cancellations.

League Two side Stevenage sign former Reading defender Terence Vancooten on an one-year deal.

Officers are now “very concerned” for the welfare of a missing man of whom there have been no sightings since Wednesday – and have appealed for dash cam footage to help find him.

Six Hills Way in Stevenage is currently blocked as two vehicles are recovered after a crash.

The blind and partially deaf Labrador was pulled from a waterlogged muddy hole by fire crews.

A bag-snatcher who robbed an 85-year-old lady in a Sandy street has been jailed for two years and eight months.

Children and staff from a Baldock primary school duked it out on the dodgeball field to raise more than £3,000 to help put an end to heart disease.

Athletes of the future went head to head in the high jump, javelin throw and more at the annual inter-primary championships in Letchworth.

North Herts District Council is considering charging people for removing garden waste, it has been revealed.

The woman's eye sockets were fractured when the man she met online punched her to the ground.