News in Hitchin

Welcome to Hitchin Nub News, the news website that gets to the heart of our community.

We are a hyper-local organisation with Nub News sites across the UK. Layth Yousif, your regional editor for Hitchin Nub News, lives in the town and has been part of the Hitchin community for the last 15 years.

A Hitchin author's best-selling debut book is set to be published in China.

Zoe Folbigg's phenomenally successful The Note, has already been translated into Hebrew and German as well as Polish – and will appear in China early next year.

July has been far wetter than we in Hitchin would have liked but the month is set to end with a scorching high of 31C expected later in the week.

After a wet and grey Monday - Tuesday's high will be around 18C - the sun will eventually come out as the week progresses as temperatures gradually rise, climaxing on the final day of July, this Friday, with a mini-heatwave.

Welcome to the Hitchin Nub News Breakfast Briefing:

A one-stop-shop for the essentials of our town today, Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Hitchin is renowned as a town packed with top quality restaurants and eateries full of moutherwatering dishes – but which establishments have signed up to the government's Eat Out to Help Out discount scheme?

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak's concept is to encourage people to boost the struggling restaurant industry as the economy aims to bounce back from the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

A Hitchin organisation aimed at supporting young people has been busy providing 'virtual spaces' for those whose anxiety levels have risen during lockdown.

Phase, a youth based support trust, has been working with schools and within the wider Hitchin community, operates in partnership with churches in the town to make a positive impact on the lives of children and teenagers in the area.

This weekend sees the return of the Hitchin councillors' 'Community Zoom Surgery'.

The online event is your opportunity to discuss any suggestions, queries or concerns about district or county council services with the councilors you elected to represent you on North Herts District Council.

The word 'unprecedented' has never been used so often by so many people.

Since the spring all of us in Hitchin have had to quickly adapt and come to terms with measures imposed on a scale we've never seen before.

Courageous Hitchin teenager Emilka Styczynska is facing the fight of her life in a bid to land a vital organ transplant.

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