News in Hitchin

Councillors in North Herts are to be asked to back moves to establish a single unitary authority in Hertfordshire 'in the shortest possible time frame', at a meeting of the council on Thursday.

Currently Hertfordshire is split into 10 district and boroughs, where local councils provide services such as planning, environmental health, bin collection, housing and licensing.

Why not join in Hitchin Library's most popular annual event - the Summer Reading Challenge!

The Summer Reading Challenge is without doubt the biggest event in the library's calendar - last summer more than 1,000 children took part.

Herts police are warning people to be alert to a Facebook scam that has seen a woman lose £400.

The Facebook messenger fraud occurs after the victim receives messages that appear to be from friends or family asking to use the recipient's Paypal account.

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance – which has made seven life-saving helicopter visits to Hitchin over the last year – has been given a vital cash boost of £140,000 from government coffers.

The airborne lifeline had been facing a £500k shortfall due to the coronavirus crisis but will now face a more certain future in north Herts and beyond as part of an emergency £6million awarded in total to Air Ambulances UK - which will aid 21 local air ambulance charities up and down the country.

Hitchin fire station manager has been busy training in a bid take on one of the toughest physical challenges on the planet for charity.

James Rossano Bull has been preparing for Morocco's Marathon Des Sables, which is considered to be the toughest footrace on earth.

'Incredible' is the word that Captain Sir Thomas Moore - or Captain Tom as the world knows him - called five-year-old Betty Leigh-Allinson after she raised more than £32k for charity.

The country's much-loved lockdown hero should know an amazing achievement when he sees one - after he raised more than £30m for good causes.

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With the new school term fast approaching a Hitchin school has been busy preparing to fully host pupils once again after nearly five months absence due to the coronavirus crisis.

The government has insisted the reopening of schools is a matter of priority next week – with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying it is a 'moral duty' to get students back into education properly for the first time since March.

Work to upgrade the A602 between Watton-at-Stone and Tonwell has commenced, with project partners Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Hertfordshire County Council marking the milestone on site with contractor Interserve Construction Limited.

The work kick-starts the final phase of infrastructure improvements to the A602 as part of a wider project to improve the route between Stevenage and Ware and increase its resilience to growing traffic numbers.

Did you know Hitchin's British Schools museum is now open again following lockdown?

The site on Queen Street is offering craft activities for child and adults until the end of August.