Hertfordshire Magazines

Parents and pupils at The Reddings Primary School, Hemel Hempstead have created a school garden to be proud of.

A parish in Sarratt has been able to publish an important document which sets out the planning needs of the local community, thanks to a grant from a county councillor.

Vulnerable families in Welwyn and Hatfield are being supported with funding from a county councillor’s locality budget.

Markyate Village Hall is a more attractive meeting place for local groups, thanks to a grant from a county councillor.

County councillor Derrick Ashley (Hitchin South) has allocated £3,600 from his Locality Budget so schools in Hitchin can take part in a business/education initiative.

A grant of £611.79 has been awarded from county councillor Robin Parker‘s locality budget to Stevenage Borough Council.

Budding footballers from Welwyn and Hatfield will benefit from new street football equipment thanks to funding from a county councillor.

The careers of budding sports men and women from St Albans will get a kick start in the run up to the Olympics thanks to a local county councillor.

St Mary’s Junior School in Ware will be able to access their nature area, come rain or shine, after County Councillor David Andrews (Ware North) allocated £250 from his locality budget to create pathways and stepping stones in the school gardens.

A Hoddesdon charity that provides respite care for families in need has received a funding boost from a Hertfordshire county councillor.

Robotic arm controlled by thought - Two patients who are paralysed from the neck down are able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts. [BBC Health]

Google 'Knowledge Graph' turns entire internet into one big Wikipedia - Google says this is a 'critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do.' [Daily Mail IT]

Accomotels for hotels in High Wycombe

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Mind-bending: Controlling your Windows PC with your brain is possible (and the hardware is already on the shelves) - Now we are getting ready to enter the world of thought-control, with headsets that can read our minds now available for as little as £300, and the software to turn our dreams into actions starting to take shape. [Daily Mail IT]

Waste company 'bullying clients' - A waste company stands accused of bullying small businesses by using unfair contracts to ramp up charges, the BBC has learned. [BBC Business]

Greece unity talks hit stalemate - The latest attempts to form a Greek government are said to be deadlocked, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more eurozone uncertainty. [BBC Business]

Google brings instant answers to search results - Type in 'Mona Lisa', and a biography appears right on the page (on the right hand side), type in 'Leonardo DiCaprio' and you get a list of his films, and suggested related searches. [Daily Mail IT]

Sixth of cancers due to infection - One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. [BBC Health]

New car sales rise 3.3% in April - New car sales in the UK rose to 142,322 in April, up 3.3% from a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says. [BBC Business]

Local elections 2012: Bloody nose for David Cameron as Labour on course to gain 700 seats - The PM, who suffered embarrassing losses in his own Oxfordshire constituency, apologised to Tory councillors today as more than 700 were expected to lose their seats in the crushing defeat for the party. [Daily Mail Show Biz and TV]

Refund concerns for scam victims - Refunds and discounts should be easier to claim by consumers who have suffered from aggressive sales techniques, Law Commissions say. [Business]

'Top up' in case of strike - PM - Motorists should top up their tanks in case a strike by fuel tanker drivers goes ahead but there is no need to queue, the PM says. [Business]

UK's Advertising Standards to investigate Apple over 'misleading' 4G claims after company offers refund in Australia - Britain's Advertising Standards Authority said that it was investigating a number of complaints that Apple's advertising for the new iPad was misleading. [Sciencw]

Illegal tyre dumping 'nightmare' - A warning is issued of the dangers of illegal tyre dumps as officials start to clear 7,000 left on farmland. [Front Page News]

Ship sinking costs Carnival $95m - The sinking of the Costa Concordia could cost parent firm Carnival up to $95m (£62m; 75m euro), the firm says. [Front Page News]

Sherlock Holmes WILL return for a third series next year, BBC confirms - Audiences were left unsure if the cantankerous detective would return after he appeared to 'die' with his reputation in tatters in Sunday night’s show. [Show Biz]

Luton airport planning expansion - Plans to increase annual passenger capacity to 18 million at London Luton Airport and create 6,000 new jobs are revealed. [Business]

Yummy mummies take to the catwalk as New York Fashion Week set to star a mothers-only runway show - Strut: The Fashionable Mom Show will give women inspiration when it comes to wearing outfits that can be easily transformed to take a mom from homes to evenings out. [Femail]

British surgeons pioneer surgery with robotic arm to fix blood vessel - Doctors at St Mary's Hospital in London have saved a man's life by performing a world-first heart operation using robotic technology. [Health]

Nationwide launches market-leading 18 month 0% purchase credit card - but there¿s a catch - Nationwide Building Society is launching an 18 month 0 per cent interest purchase credit card tomorrow – but you must be a current account customer to get it. [Money Mail]

Sainsbury's lands latest blow in supermarket petrol price war with '10p off a litre' promotion - The promotion will last from tomorrow until Sunday, and also applies to online shopping. Morrisons are also slashing prices at the forecourt from Monday. [Money Mail]

Games legacy boost for graduates - Glasgow City Council is unveiling a £10m scheme that aims to provide 1,000 jobs for graduates as a 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy. [Front Page News]

Nasa announces 2014 test flight of its Orion deep space capsule - The Orion capsule, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin Corp, would fly aboard a Delta 4 or Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [Sciencw]

Colombia fashion week 2011: Butt implants and 'mountains of cocaine' - A behind-the-scenes look at Colombia fashion week makes up the latest installment in the Fashion Week Internationale series - and reveals the Colombian obsession with plastic surgery. [Femail]

Thousands join remembrance events - Thousands of people of Wales across are joining remembrance events as a weekend of tributes begins to war victims. [Front Page News]

The minor injuries unit at Herts and Essex Hospital has expanded and opened to patients on Monday 23 March, providing a new reception with a larger waiting area and an extra treatment room.

An exciting new GP surgery – Spring House Medical Centre – opens today (Monday 1 June) in Welwyn Garden City.

NHS Hertfordshire today announced that a collaboration between the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and Assura Lea Valley LLP, have been successful in their bid to run two new urgent care centres (UCCs).

An exciting new GP surgery - West Herts Medical Centre - opens in Hemel Hempstead on 1 June.

It is under a month now until new urgent care centres open at Hertford County and Cheshunt Community hospitals in October 2009. Urgent care centres are a new service for people with relatively minor injuries and ailments that might otherwise have had to travel to an A&E department, to get treated much closer to home. The new centres will provide urgent care for people who do not have a life-threatening illness or injury. The centres will include diagnostic services such as x-rays and blood tests along with treatment areas for wound stitching, sprains and plastering minor fractures.

A new GP-led health centre is set to open its doors at the QEII Hospital in Welwyn Garden City later this year after the PCT signed a contract with local GPs to provide the service.

First issue of Stakeholder Bulletin.

Boards of the four NHS organisations involved in the Delivering quality health care for Hertfordshire consultation met yesterday (19 December 2007) to make decisions that map out the future of Hertfordshire’s health services.

Wednesday, 19 December 2007 is the date when the boards of the four consulting health service organisations will come together to make their decision on the outcome of the recent Delivering quality health care for Hertfordshire consultation. The meeting, which will be open to the public to attend, will be held at the Fielder centre in Hatfield.

Public consultation on ‘Delivering quality health care for Hertfordshire’ has now come to an end – the deadline for responding to the proposals was yesterday (Monday 1 October).

Very urgent There is a serious problem with the timings for these signals with very long queues building up on the north bound direction (from Northwood) with no queues on any of the other three arms
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Deacons Hill, Watford
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Warning signs on/near lamp post 14 have been knocked out of alignment - safety hazard
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Sandy Lane, Northwood
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Bus ramp on pavement by Kemscott Crescent bus stop has loose section - trip hazard
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 29 Hagden Lane, Watford
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The blocked one is in station road about 5 yards east of the junction
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Station Road, Hemel Hempstead
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Taken looking towards combe street, the hole is on the north side of a previous (squarish) patch

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Combe Street & Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead
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Part of the problems in Cotterells -

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 146 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead
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This is in Cotterells - there are a lot of rough areas and small potholes along a length of Cotterells (say 100-150 yards)

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 25 Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead
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On south side of london road - end of a parkable inset

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): London Road, Hemel Hempstead
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Just opposite a road crossing refuge

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 469 London Road, Hemel Hempstead
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I have a problem with a street lamp outside my house which I would like some help with as it keeps going off leaving my end of the road in complete darkness. I am aware that this small stretch of Thorn Grove is in fact Private so if the council can not help I am hoping that maybe they could refer me to a company they recommend and who deals with street lamps. Thank you Gabe
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Thorn Grove, Bishop’s Stortford
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Street. Light no 1 radburn. Corner and near garages Allison
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Allison, Letchworth
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Frequent parking on double yellow lines on Townsend Lane between the guide hut and entrance to Aplins Close. I photographed two cars parked high on the pavement causing an obstruction, and on the double yellow lines on Mon 14th May at 18.14. This obscures the view from Aplins Close of cars travelling at high speed turning off the main road. Not having a clear view as you try to turn out of Aplins Close is really dangerous.Will try to attach photos of this. Can supply close up photos of number plates.

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Townsend Lane, Harpenden
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Streetlight has no cover on it - missing!
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 11 Longspring, Watford
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Lots of pot holes around the traffic light junction at Longspring and Brighton Road
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 63 Gammons Lane, Watford
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Missing junction bollards x 2. At the round junction the two illuminated bollards are missing
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Hazelend Road, Bishop’s Stortford
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Pothole within highway as location shown on map
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Stocking Pelham
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Street Light outside the Crabtree Inn on the Leverstock Green road still on 24 hours a day. Now going into third week. Such a waste of power.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Tedder Road, Hemel Hempstead
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Driving east along Ballslough Hill towards Kimpton is a huge pothole about 1metre sq.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Ballslough Hill, Kimpton
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Numerous deep potholes on Kimpton Bottom B652 and Common Lane between Kimpton and Bower Heath. Too many to detail but some deep and dangerous. Destroted tyre and damaged wheel on my car.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Kimpton Bottom, Kimpton
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One or more of the steps leading from the access road to the front of the houses are loose and likely to come away completely under load causing a nasty accident.

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 74 Kimbolton Crescent, Stevenage
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