The Comet

A Hitchin football fan has completed a mammoth four-and-a-half year ground-hopping challenge.

Significant improvements have been made to a public space in Stevenage’s town centre.

A Hitchin jewellers has raised £1,750 for Garden House Hospice thanks to two customer raffles.

Stevenage’s Bunyan Baptist Church was packed out on Wednesday night as the community met to discuss The Barclay School’s impending academisation.

The handler of an award-winning police dog who is retiring after six years of service has spoken about the “great memories” the pair have shared together.

Families from St Albans and Stevenage enjoyed a special Christmas party organised by local charity Home-Start Herts thanks to a grant from Amazon.

Police are re-appealing for information after an officer required hospital treatment following a crash in Stevenage just before Christmas.

A road through Offley has been reopened following an earlier crash.

Newnham Road has been closed in both directions from the A507 to Ashwell Road due to a warehouse fire.

Traffic is queuing on the A1(M) northbound after a three vehicle collision near Welwyn Garden City.

Campaigning Remainers have slammed the Hitchin and Harpenden MP’s rejection of a second referendum as “increasingly bizarre”.

A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving following a head-on collision at 110mph with a grandfather near Hexton.

A new club has raised more than £900 for Jackie’s Drop-in centre in Letchworth after the first of many ‘60s nights.

The campaign to save Charlton pub, The Windmill, has been given a financial boost thanks to a bursary from a community support foundation.

Police have launched a CCTV appeal after a 79-year-old woman’s wallet was stolen outside a Sainsbury’s store in Letchworth.

Two hundred roads across Hertfordshire will benefit from maintenance work between now and the end of March, with an extra £7.8 million being spent by the council.

After losing 6.5 stone through Slimming World, Sandra Jackson is now ready to enjoy life to the full.

An appeal is being launched to help raise the final £200,000 needed for the major renovation and modification of a Grade I-listed church - the oldest building in Stevenage.

An offical announcement of the transaction that would see the long-awaited opening of the front entrance to Hitchin’s North Hertfordshire Museum has been delayed after a disagreement over press release quotes.

Parents of pupils at a school hit with complaints about special educational needs provision say the problem is more widespread, with seven teachers and five support staff leaving in one term.