Hertfordshire County, England News

A rugby club in Watford has started selling its own labelled beer thanks to a small, independent craft brewer which has opened in the town.

The differences in wearing uniform and cycling to school were just some of the things students from a Kings Langley School discussed when they met pupils from a college in Holland.

The chairman of a community group in Leavesden has hit out at residents for the poor turnout at a sponsored walk to raise money for the restoration of a war memorial stone.

Cllr Morris has chosen two charities for his year in office - the Langdon Foundation which supports youngsters with disabilities and the Ben Kinsella Trust, which warns children about knife crime.

Britvic is to close its factory in Chelmsford, the city where the company was founded in the 19th Century, as part of plans to cut hundreds of jobs.

A business in Rickmansworth has been chosen as a finalist in the FSB Hertfordshire Business Awards 2013, in the category of Young Business Person of the Year.

Teenagers got a taste of life behind bars as part of a hard-hitting project to deter young people from crime.

A great-grandfather has described NHS red tape as "crazy" after he was told he could wait almost a year for a hip replacement at Barnet General Hospital.

Delays in Network Rail's maintenance programme were to blame for an accident in which part of a King's Lynn to London train travelling at 80mph came off, shattering windows and injuring a passenger.

A meeting of global power brokers in a Hertfordshire hotel is exciting conspiracy theorists, but what are they really about? James Cusick is political correspondent of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday.

Gambolling in a Hertfordshire back garden is a sight to make anyone sit up and take notice - a grey squirrel may be a regular visitor, a black squirrel is rarer, but the reader who captured this brief snatch of film has never seen both at the same time.

Food prices, though relatively high, are well off their peak, and production is rising.

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The Shenley Road studios is nearly at the end of the first stage of its renovations, which includes a new control room next to the George Lucas stage.

An elderly woman who took a nasty tumble in Hemel Hempstead's Lawn Lane last week has issued a public vote of thanks to the Good Samaritans who stepped in to help her.

Trainee community organisers Anna Kasmir from Whetstone, Katherine Wilkinson from Burnt Oak and Paulette Singer from Cricklewood have just finished their first week knocking on doors in Burnt Oak, Grahame Park and West Hendon.

But windy weather and her flimsy outfit had other ideas. Kate was left red-faced after the gusts lifted up her 38 polka-dot dress, drawing attention instead to her thighs.

As Corporal Jones used to remind his fellow platoon members and us every week, there was an absolute requirement not to panic when faced with adversity, while showing us outwardly that everything was relative.

Hundreds of walkers donned their pyjamas as they pounded the streets of Enfield under the cover of darkness to raise money for charity.

The Alzheimer's Society in Barnet is working with hospitals, business and members of the public across the borough to raise awareness of dementia.