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Long-suffering residents kept awake by invasion of M11 lorries

Long-suffering residents kept awake by invasion of M11 lorries

The motorway was closed overnight between Harlow and Bishop's Stortford for up to seven weekdays.

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Queen's Birthday Honours in Essex: MBE for PAH breast surgeon

Queen's Birthday Honours in Essex: MBE for PAH breast surgeon

Queen's Birthday Honours in Essex: MBE for PAH breast surgeon

Ashraf Patel has treated hundreds of women in the Stortford area for breast cancer in 28 years and helped to raise £4.5m for research.

Queen's Birthday Honours: Top civil servant from Stortford named a dame

Queen's Birthday Honours: Top civil servant from Stortford named a dame

Queen's Birthday Honours: Top civil servant from Stortford named a dame

Solicitor Elizabeth Gardiner, who was appointed by David Cameron, was the first woman to hold her post of First Parliamentary Counsel.

Queen's Birthday Honours in Herts: Retiring fire chief's warm send-off

Queen's Birthday Honours in Herts: Retiring fire chief's warm send-off

Queen's Birthday Honours in Herts: Retiring fire chief's warm send-off

A year after he joined the service, Darryl Keen was one of over 200 firefighters involved in tackling the 1992 Windsor Castle blaze.

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Father and son put aside rivalry for trek for Grove Cottage

Father and son put aside rivalry for trek for Grove Cottage

Father and son put aside rivalry for trek for Grove Cottage

Former Stortford rugby club president Russell Cattell and son Tommy to tackle 24.5-mile Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge in under 12 hours.

Three arrested and drugs, cash and vehicle seized in police raid

Three arrested and drugs, cash and vehicle seized in police raid

Three arrested and drugs, cash and vehicle seized in police raid

A warrant was executed at an address in Crofters End in Sawbridgeworth on Friday morning.

Pub's anger at being told to wait up to a week for power cut repairs

Pub's anger at being told to wait up to a week for power cut repairs

Pub's anger at being told to wait up to a week for power cut repairs

No kitchen ovens, lights or hot water, but defiant Brewery Tap is still serving drinks and cooking pizzas in its outside oven.

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Concern at 19ft lighting columns for top deck of multi-storey

Concern at 19ft lighting columns for top deck of multi-storey

Concern at 19ft lighting columns for top deck of multi-storey

East Herts Council submits planning application to put four central twin lighting posts on sixth storey of car park at Northgate End.

Stansted and Luton airspace changes take step forward

Stansted and Luton airspace changes take step forward

Stansted and Luton airspace changes take step forward

Luton Airport has published the responses to its proposals for change in the region's airspace.
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Bishop's Stortford's farewell to Jon George after eight years and two titles

Bishop's Stortford's farewell to Jon George after eight years and two titles

Long-serving forward got the perfect send-off by leading the Silver Leys side to victory at Cambridge University on his last appearance.

Stortford golfers graduate to national stage of England schools event

Stortford golfers graduate to national stage of England schools event

Stortford golfers graduate to national stage of England schools event

George Wright and Max Hopkins into national final after finishing in top five at South East England Schools Golf Championship.

Stortford rugby players make successful conversion into cricketers

Stortford rugby players make successful conversion into cricketers

Stortford rugby players make successful conversion into cricketers

Bishop's Stortford Cricket Club taking on their rugby-playing neighbours could become an annual event after they went head to head.

Yadav and Groves' big partnership helps Sawbo to take top spot

Yadav and Groves' big partnership helps Sawbo to take top spot

Yadav and Groves' big partnership helps Sawbo to take top spot

Sawbridgeworth moved to the top of Saracens Hertfordshire League, Division One after they dismantled Harpenden II by nine wickets

Joe Hawkins guides Bishop's Stortford to the Championship summit

Joe Hawkins guides Bishop's Stortford to the Championship summit

Joe Hawkins guides Bishop's Stortford to the Championship summit

Three Stortford batsmen hit half-centuries as they beat Preston at Cricketfield Lane to go top of the Saracens Herts League Championship.
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Va-va-bloom: Manuden Open Gardens to feature car show

Va-va-bloom: Manuden Open Gardens to feature car show

The Father's Day event will feature 16 gardens to view, a classic and sports car show with 20 vehicles plus teas and bees.

Phone call central to Tilda Swinton's engaging role in The Human Voice

Phone call central to Tilda Swinton's engaging role in The Human Voice

Phone call central to Tilda Swinton's engaging role in The Human Voice

Tilda Swinton affirms her status as one of Britain's finest actors in Pedro Almodóvar's The Human Voice, says Indie film reviewer Charlie Hughes

Step into these fictional characters' shoes to mark Empathy Day

Step into these fictional characters' shoes to mark Empathy Day

Step into these fictional characters' shoes to mark Empathy Day

Bishop's Stortford College Prep School librarian Lizzie Hall on the best books for helping children to learn about empathy

Laugh out loud at open-air comedy festival in Stortford

Laugh out loud at open-air comedy festival in Stortford

Laugh out loud at open-air comedy festival in Stortford

Bill for two-day event at Bishop’s Stortford High School includes Andrew Maxwell, Christian Reilly, Ria Lina, Mitch Benn, Scott Capurro.

Audiences are hungry for picnic production of Shakespeare in Stortford

Audiences are hungry for picnic production of Shakespeare in Stortford

Audiences are hungry for picnic production of Shakespeare in Stortford

Water Lane Theatre Company adds Sunday matinee to open-air production of Twelfth Night in Monastery Garden as Saturday night show sells out.
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LIFESTYLE

A true love story: Widower, 92, publishes tribute to 'great love of his life for 44 years'

A true love story: Widower, 92, publishes tribute to 'great love of his life for 44 years'

John and Jean Simkins came together through the shared experience of the loss of their first spouses, both of whom had multiple sclerosis.

View rarely-before-seen aerial photos of Stortford going back 100 years

View rarely-before-seen aerial photos of Stortford going back 100 years

View rarely-before-seen aerial photos of Stortford going back 100 years

Britain From Above online photographic collection shows Stortford and surrounding areas in amazing detail, with some images a century old.

Stortford student's £40,000 Mexico mission to stop his mum's MS getting worse

Stortford student's £40,000 Mexico mission to stop his mum's MS getting worse

Stortford student's £40,000 Mexico mission to stop his mum's MS getting worse

When Harrison Compton's mum Dee was given a devastating diagnosis that turned their world upside down, he knew he had to act.

The Stortford mum using her pandemic birth story to give others a maternity voice

The Stortford mum using her pandemic birth story to give others a maternity voice

The Stortford mum using her pandemic birth story to give others a maternity voice

Chloe Ribeiro had her second son in January after an anxious pregnancy dealing with hospital without her husband being allowed to be present.

My close encounter as a 15-year-old girl with serial killer Rose West

My close encounter as a 15-year-old girl with serial killer Rose West

My close encounter as a 15-year-old girl with serial killer Rose West

Sawbridgeworth woman Jenny Ashcroft has written a book, Slipping Through the Net, about her dysfunctional teenage years.
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