The Comet

Members of North Herts Road Runners showed their support for the Great British Spring Clean by launching a litter-picking blitz on the Letchworth Greenway.

Police have named the victim of a car crash in Suffolk as a 21-year-old man from Stevenage.

A 38-year-old man was arrested in Stevenage yesterday following an altercation between two people, which resulted in one of them allegedly being threatened with an axe.

A man was robbed, allegedly at knifepoint, in Hitchin just after 4pm on Tuesday, April 16.

A chemical spill in Hitchin has left at least one person with burns to their skin.

The Letchworth, Hitchin & District Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association held its first monthly coffee morning for members and ex-Royal Air Force personnel earlier this month.

There’s still time to recognise your unsung heroes, but the deadline for entries for this year’s Comet Community Awards is now less than 48 hours away.

The Stevenage Conservatives have defended an election leaflet which says the Labour-run Stevenage Borough Council is “hiding millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money in reserves” – after the town’s Labour leader accused the group of “blatant lies”.

The North Hertfordshire and Stevenage Liberal Democrats has withdrawn its support for one of its local election candidates.

A police helicopter has been searcing above Baldock and Letchworth following reports of an assault this morning.

A Stevenage man was suprised to find himself at gun-point surrounded by police after carrying a sword on a train.

With child internet use at an all time high, there are more sexual predators than can be dealt with by police, according to a national safeguarding online team, Cobra UK.

McDonald’s in Stevenage town centre is set to permanently close, prompting concerns about the significant number of vacant retail units in the shopping area.

A new pet grooming shop is opening for business in Letchworth’s The Arcade next week and will be hosting an open day this weekend.

Redundancies are being made at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in Stevenage as part of “a new approach to research and development”.

A life-saving scanner that can spot the early signs of liver damage has been bought by the East and North Hertfordshire Hospitals’ Charity to help launch a Fibroscan service.

The daughter of an 89-year-old woman with dementia who is confined to a wheelchair says her mother can no longer shop in a town centre superstore because all the trolleys for use with a wheelchair have either been stolen or vandalised.

Members of the public are being urged to come forward after a man sustained minor injuries during an assault in a Sainsbury’s store in Hitchin.

A woman was told to “go back to where you came from” during two racially aggravated incidents in Letchworth.

More than 70 people turned out for the funeral of a homeless man who died in the bitter cold.