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David Field of Whipsnade Zoo

High pods are set to open up a new market for hilltop zoo video

EIGHT “luxury camping pods” are being planned at Whipsnade Zoo as charity chiefs aim to make it a year-round attraction.

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Dixons goes upmarket with Harrods concession

ELECTRICAL giant Dixons will be supplying gadgets and gizmos to the well-heeled when the firm takes over the electronics section of luxury department store Harrods next month.

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Last toddlers worship at St.Peter and St.Paul's Church, Tring. with many thankyous to Margaret Gittins, left, and Rosemary Carpenter.

Tots leaders step down after 10 years

TODDLER worship leaders Margaret Gittins and Rosemary Carpenter held their final session at The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Tring..

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Facebook group set up to save social centre

CAMPAIGNERS have stepped up their efforts to stop a social centre being pulled down to make way for a chaplaincy.

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 Nine year old Joseph Howse of Hemel Hempstead has a role in Upstairs Downstairs.

TV debut for budding star in Upstairs Downstairs s

A BUDDING actor will be sitting down with family and friends to watch himself on television for the first time.

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   April Banbury in Hemel Hempstead with dresses for Essex Fashion Week.

Only way is Essex for April’s designs

A BEAUTY queen is hoping her fashion designs will be embraced as ‘totally reem’ by crowds at Essex Fashion Week.

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Carnival back for good

THE organisers behind a revived carnival have said that it is here to stay and will one day rival the town’s biggest events for popularity.

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Promised hospital link road now a reality after £7m boost

EMERGENCY access to A&E in Watford is to be revolutionised after hospital chiefs were handed £7 million to pay for a new link road.

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Gazette reporter to judge Miss Herts contestants

THE judges for the Miss Hertfordshire competition will include a Gazette reporter and two former pageant winners.

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Church upgrade plans refused

ELDERS of a town centre church will have to go back to the drawing board or appeal a council decision if they want to go ahead with plans to make their building more suitable for 21st century use.

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Unemployment group seeing rising numbers

AN UNEMPLOYMENT support group says the number of people needing help is growing in the gloomy economic climate.

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Olympic-style games for museum visitors

VISITORS to the Natural History Museum in Tring will be able to take on champions of the animal world in a mini Olympic-style games at its latest exhibition.

Queens Square, Adeyfield, Hemel Hempstead.

Commuters ‘hogging car park spaces’

VALUABLE parking slots for shoppers in Adeyfield Square are being taken up by commuters who leave their cars there all day, a store manager has claimed.

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Direct sellers and tradespeople targeted in anti tax cheat campaign

PEOPLE who don’t pay their dues are being hunted down by the taxman.

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What would you do with Swinburn’s £10m racing pad?

IT’S not an everyday property deal, and being entrusted with the sale of the 400 acres that make up the former racing horse training and breeding stables of Walter Swinburn and Peter Harris – at a guide price of £9.4 million – is a feather in the cap of long-established agents Cole Flatt & Partners.

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12-82 Very quiet Gadebridge shops, Hemel Hempstead with, from left,
Rohit and his brother Hitendra Patel and Nicola Cay from Costcutters, 
and Kiran Patel from the newsagents next door.

Shops are ‘dying a death’

NEIGHBOURHOOD shopping centres in Hemel Hempstead are suffering a massive decline in fortunes with dwindling customers and dingy amenities.

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Town centre braced for a shopping ‘squeeze’

TOWN centre bosses have warned of a retail ‘squeeze’ this year despite figures that show sales in Hemel Hempstead grew in the crucial Christmas period.

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If you have to use the roads, go safely...

Motoring charity the IAM has today issued advice on driving in snow and ice, as freezing conditions spread across the country.

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Facebook takes a trip down memory lane

MORE than 1,100 people have signed up to a new Facebook group devoted to memories of Hemel Hempstead.

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Taxi row over ‘unfair’ station licence charge

A TRAIN company is planning to police taxis picking up people from a station forecourt because of a dispute it is having with drivers over annual permits.

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Battle goes on against HS2

Rail: A fundraising initiative is being launched to help fight plans for a highly controversial high speed rail link.

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Print firm sniffs out a 1,000mph super car

A HEMEL Hempstead company has got behind the latest land speed record attempt by sponsoring the Bloodhound supercar.

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Aquasplash at LeisureWorld in Hemel Hempstead.

Battle begins to keep water fun park afloat

BOSSES at Aquasplash have launched a campaign to save the attraction after it emerged there are no plans for it in a revamped LeisureWorld.

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Apsley club closes after 137 years

A SPORTS and social club in Apsley that has been around for more than 100 years has shut down.

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Academy for Dragons

A CHARITY plans to apply to the government to set up an academy for entrepreneurs.

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Silver lining as jobs queue continues to inch down

THERE is some comfort for the borough’s jobless as the number of unemployed people in Dacorum is slowly decreasing, according to the latest figures.

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Find the treasure and help raise cash for hospice care

STAFF at Specsavers in Tring have chosen a pirate theme for their fancy dress fundraiser for Iain Rennie Grove House Hospice Care this Saturday.

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Chiefs ‘ignored my Fairtrade town lifeline’

A COUNCILLOR says his efforts to head up the Fairtrade movement in Hemel Hempstead have been ignored as council chiefs claim it risks being dropped due to lack of interest.

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Walk this way toward £100,000 roadworks

PEDESTRIAN-friendly road improvements worth more than £100,000 will kick off in Hemel Hempstead in February.

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‘Car park proposal for meadow has benefits’

ALLOWING a meadow to be paved over to create a car park has been given the blessing of Tring Town Council in a bid to solve parking problems in the area, and because of the tourism benefits.

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Lift-off for online route to high-end food firms

SHOPPERS can go online to buy and have delivered products from a variety of boutiques and stores that sell organic and local foods.

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The Ridgeway Sausage meets Ridgeway Beer at The Greyhound, Wiggington.  From left Joe Collier, who makes the sausages, landord Paul Phillips, and Ben Marston who makes the beer.

Businesses collaborate on a banger of an idea

A BUTCHER, brewer and a landlord have teamed up to create a signature dish for their patch.

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Time to get in the spirit of it

Tickets are on sale for Tring’s answer to the proms.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is warning taxpayers in the South East not to fall victim to phishing emails sent out by fraudsters in the run-up to the self-assessment deadline of January 31

Fraudsters are going phishing

BE ON alert for con artists who have gone phishing for your money.

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Beware if there’s no score on the door, diners are told

PUNTERS are being urged to watch out for eateries that do not display new hygiene scores that come into effect from the end of January.

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Olympic park-and-ride plans for Redbourn’s Hertfordshire showground given green light

PLANS to create an Olympic car park on a county showground were approved by councillors last night.

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