The Conservative Cabinet of Herts County Council will be meeting on Monday, March 19th, to decide whether to sell off yet another care home. In a close echo of the sell-off of Jane Campbell House in St Albans, the Hyde Valley Residential Care Home in Welwyn Garden City also has an occupation rate approaching 100%, […]

If you’re wondering what to do with the kids next weekend how about taking part in the ever popular Skateboard Jam at The Pioneer Club, or this year joining in with the Scooter Jam the following day. Skateboard Jam (+Rollerbladers!) Starting at 10:30am on the 24 March with Riders paying £7 and Spectators £1. Scooter Jam Also […]

A new online system for reporting Highways problems, meant to be an “improvement”, has come in for sharp criticism from Hertfordshire’s Liberal Democrats with a difficult to use mapping process. The new system, rolled out recently by Conservative-run Herts County Council also requires you to register if you want to track something as simple as […]

The European Parliament is expected on Thursday (March 15) to endorse the Commission’s low carbon ‘Roadmap’ by a large majority. The document provides a policy framework for the European Union to achieve an 80-95% reduction in its CO2 emissions by 2050. Its formal endorsement by EU governments was last week blocked at the Environment Council […]

Extract from ‘sales’ e-mail from Buckle Green & Ptnrs. To put the UK’s budgeting into context, we have translated this year’s figures [2011] into household terms by shifting the decimal point 7 places to the left: £58,900 Income £71,000 Spending £12,100 New borrowing on the credit cards £90,920 Borrowing already on the credit cards £2,200   […]

The European Union has been there a while, and often we hear all kinds of horror stories and claims about what it’s up to.  But we don’t hear that much, which is really frustrating, especially when we’ve elected our MEPs from the UK and even our MPs which sit in the European Council of Ministers […]

Local Liberal Democrat Councillor Allan Witherick has reacted with dismay at the Herts Highways response to a petition of over 100 local residents about the state of a road in the District. ‘I’m very disappointed that, after residents made the effort to bring the petition to the Conservative-run Council, the County’s response has been to […]

Based on the law of averages, there has to be some good news from Network Rail and First Capital Connect… Blackfriars Tube reopening is one of those things- but tell us how you get on!

Earlier this month the roof finally went on to the new Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre. After all the heart ache, the political wrangling and dreams of what could have been, what we did achieve is taking shape. This was something that originally started with cross-party support but had to be pushed through, despite opposition, by […]

Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservative Administration at the County Council of failing to consult properly on the planned closure of Jane Campbell House in St Albans, which also has worrying implications for other care homes in Hertfordshire. Even though the care home has an occupancy rate approaching 100%, the County Council has declared that […]