News in Hitchin

Update: A serving Metropolitan police officer from Stevenage has been charged with rape, the Crown Prosecution Service has revealed.

PC David Carrick, 46, from Stevenage, was charged with rape by Hertfordshire constabulary on Sunday.

We have signed up Hitchin MP Bim Afolami as a regular Nub News columnist.

Read Hitchin Nub News for Bim's new and exclusive monthly column.

North Herts District Council have announced the suspension of all food waste collection services in and around Hitchin.

Announcing the decision on their social media channels they blamed the last minute cancellation on severe staff shortages affecting waste, recycling and street cleansing teams.

Pupils at a Hitchin school have been praised for their mature behaviour after a group of anti-vaxxers gathered outside the gates.

Students at the Priory School on Bedford Road have been hailed for the way they handled people handing out leaflets opposing the Covid jab.

UPDATE: Hertfordshire County Council has insisted there is no need for special key worker petrol stations, despite calls for emergency measures.

Hitchin Nub News once again witnessed long queues outside petrol stations in our town on Friday, including waits of up to 30 minutes on Bedford Road as motorists waited to fill up at the Shell garage, following a recent delivery.

A popular sci-fi novel by a successful Hitchin author is now set to become a comic.

The sci-fi novel Complete Darkness by Hitchin's Matt Adcock which topped sales charts and was chosen as one of the 'top books of year' by UK site: Den of Geek is now to become a comic.

Hitchin Nub News has been such a hit with readers in North Herts we're expanding!

From today, Friday, October 1, we're launching a separate news website called Letchworth Nub News - and we need your help to grow.

A health and fitness course backed by a Premier League club is kicking-off in Hitchin this week!

Watford FC are will be hosting a free 12 week weight loss course for men called Shape Up this autumn, set to start on Thursday [September 30].

More than 300 carers look set to leave their care home roles across Hertfordshire, including Hitchin, rather than have the Covid vaccine.

New government rules mean that from November 11 staff will no longer be allowed to work in care homes unless they have had two doses of the vaccine or have a medical exemption.

WANTED: A young vocalist to appear in a Hitchin screening of much-loved Christmas tale The Snowman.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented soloist to perform the iconic story with Hitchin Brass Band at a live music screening this Christmas.