The Comet

Dads are in for a treat at Knebworth House this Father’s Day with the return of medieval jousting at the Hertfordshire stately home.

There will no longer be ‘Bounty ladies’ on the maternity wards of the Lister Hospital after the Welwyn Garden City-based company was fined £400,000 for illegally sharing the personal data of more than 14 million people.

The Save the Windmill campaign group has launched its business plan to help return the pub to its former glory, ahead of a public meeting in Hitchin.

Stevenage’s dog owners can get their four-legged friends together for the eighth annual Doggie Day next Sunday.

Visitors to North Hertfordshire’s parks and outdoor pools can now use the free drinking fountains that have been installed.

Police are appealing for help to trace a wanted man from Letchworth.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is in the bottom 10 in the UK for cancer treatment wait times, according to BBC figures released yesterday.

Stevenage Borough Council has become the latest authority to declare a climate emergency, committing to a package of measures designed to cut carbon emissions.

A Letchworth woman has been given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to seven charges relating to fraudulent claims for housing benefit and council tax reductions totalling almost £15,000.

The Education Secretary has approved 22 new applications for free schools across the UK, with one confirmed for Stevenage in 2023.

From June 2019 the tenant fees act will change what landlords and agents are able to charge tenants. Using a specialist letting agent like Michael Graham Lettings can help landlords navigate these changes successfully. Here, Michael Graham Lettings manager Angela Keegan shares some advice for dealing with the new legislation.

A car crashed through railings in Stevenage High Street this afternoon, leaving it precariously balanced on a wall.

Across the Herts and Beds region, your Conservative MPs have been backing different candidates who are all vying to become the next party leader and Prime Minister.

Thousands of pensioner households in North Hertfordshire will lose their automatic entitlement to free TV licences.

HMS St Albans led a Royal British Legion ship in a salute last week to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day landings at Normandy – with a Herts military historian sharing the experience alongside veterans who served.

The A1(M) southbound is closed between Junction 8 for Stevenage and Junction 9 for Letchworth Gate after a pedestrian was hit by a car this evening.

A 51-year-old man who defrauded elderly victims out of more than £1 million by telling them he needed to fight a court case relating to the murder of his mother has been jailed.

Letchworth is the first town in Hertfordshire to have been awarded a ‘plastic free’ status by Surfers Against Sewage, after taking action against single-use plastics.

More than 9,000 pints were drunk by thirsty punters at Hitchin Beer and Cider Festival.

The co-founder of a software company has set himself two huge challenges – cycling from Cornwall’s Land’s End to John O’Groats in Scotland in a week, and raising £45,000 for Home-Start Herts in the process.