Herts Live

10/07/2024

Teachers were told to 'continue as normal as possible'

10/07/2024

The three women 'murdered' with a crossbow in their home in Bushey have been identified 😢

Carol Hunt, Hannah Hunt and Louise Hunt died in Bushey

24/03/2024

Bishop's Stortford Town Council has a general power to reuse graves which are at least 75 years old

18/03/2024

Planning permission to build 220 homes on the plot, with 50 per cent of them set to be "affordable", was applied for

"The green belt is our future and we owe it to the next generation to protect it for them," a campaigner said amid fears 220 new homes in Borehamwood could harm habitats

18/03/2024

It could be bulldozed to make room for the homes

Morrisons shut its Royston, Hertfordshire store in 2020

13/03/2024

Radlett's Cat and Fiddle was left empty in 2019 "following a series of years of sustained losses"

The Cat and Fiddle in Radlett will become a house after a five-year closure

12/03/2024

A planning inspector warned solar panels on land the size of 119 Wembley Stadium football pitches could cause "serious harm" heritage landscapes, but Levelling Up ministers have green-lit the proposals

07/03/2024

It will change how decisions on planning applications can be made

Hertfordshire's only city has lost its decision-making rights over non-major planning applications as Michael Gove gains power to grant or refuse permission

06/03/2024

People who own empty homes and second homes in these towns face paying at least double the ordinary council tax bill

People who own empty homes and second homes in North Herts - including Letchworth, Hitchin and Royston - face paying at least double the ordinary council tax bill

05/03/2024

The man from Stevenage admitted the sickening acts

He was located in September last year, more than two years after the victim reported it to the police, and admitted the charges on the first day of his trial

04/03/2024

A 66-year-old man was found with stab injuries

01/03/2024

Axing free parking in Bushey and Radlett could be the "final nail in the coffin" for some of Hertfordshire's small high streets, a councillor has warned

29/02/2024

He has links to Hertfordshire

Teon was last seen in his school uniform on February 20

29/02/2024

They say it'll help save money

One election every four years rather than an election every year could save Broxbourne Borough Council money, according to the leader of the opposition in the council chamber, which could be ploughed into a targeted voluntary sector support scheme

29/02/2024

Police have issued a CCTV image of a man they'd like to speak to

29/02/2024

Trains between Broxbourne and Stansted are affected

Rail replacement bus services are trying to be sourced

27/02/2024

One was caught red-handed at South Mimms trying to smuggle four people into a lorry

Jalal Tarakhail, 24, was arrested as part of a long running investigation into an organised crime group (OCG) who used GPS trackers to trace vehicles they had hidden people inside.

17/02/2024

Pilots of passenger planes have recorded several near misses

Essex Police has received 27 reports about UFOs since 2018

17/02/2024

It's just a stones throw away from Hertfordshire

The zoo is home to hundreds of creatures

15/02/2024

There's a brand new name for the line

Watford commuters could soon catch the Lioness line to Euston - one of six new London Overground line names

06/02/2024

He said the trousers had been in his wardrobe at home for "a long time" and he wanted to "make space" after redecorating

Former inspector Owen Hurley had his rank in the force reduced after a gross misconduct ruling by Hertfordshire's police chief

01/02/2024

He has stressed the importance of health provision when building new homes

The Local Democracy Reporting Service asked shadow health secretary Wes Streeting about his plans for NHS provision in Hertfordshire after "not acceptable" schemes pass through planning system in the East of England

30/01/2024

Verulamium Park Splash Park in St Albans will stay dry 44 weeks of the year

Verulamium Park Splash Park in St Albans will stay dry 44 weeks of the year as the city and district council tries to balance its books across the city and next-door Harpenden

30/01/2024

The Hertfordshire authority does not have the cash to fund the full works

It will cost £150million to decarbonise Stevenage Borough Council's own housing stock - but the Hertfordshire authority does not have the cash to fund the full works

08/01/2024

We spoke to Buntingford residents about the changes coming to the town this year

Buntingford is one of Hertfordshire's nicest places to live, but funding cuts mean residents face losing their leisure centre, youth centre and recycling centre for good

30/11/2023

Thank you to all our readers 💛

HertsLive will be closing on November 30

29/11/2023

Well done to the winner!

The debate has been settled once and for all

28/11/2023

We're all behind you Alfie 💛

Alfie switched on the lights at the Waltham Abbey event on Friday, November 24, just one day after coming off chemotherapy

28/11/2023

Heartbreaking news to hear this morning

Herts Police officers attended as well as a vet, who advised the horse had suffered non-survivable injuries and was sadly put to sleep

27/11/2023

The Hertfordshire town is home to the largest cell and gene therapy cluster outside of the USA, according to the government

Jeremy Hunt has pledged to grow the life science and space sectors, but will the A1(M) bottlenecks near Stevenage limit HM Treasury's ambitions?