Consumer

Sustainable Sawbridgeworth volunteers and town councillors will offer their insights into saving energy and signpost residents to further guidance.

The Government is extending the Household Support Fund to councils for a further 12 months until the end of March 2026.

The county council, 10 district and borough councils and Police and Crime Commissioner agree joint interim submission on local government shake-up.

Central Co-op is bringing its golden ticket giveaway to Sawbridgeworth and one lucky shopper will win six bottles of champagne.

Have you ever wandered along the town’s high street and really thought about what’s there, asks Bishop’s Stortford BID joint manager Karen Burton.

Max vs Food dropped into F. Cooke Pie & Mash in South Street to take on the task of eating eight pies, eight portions of mash and eight of liquor.

Michal and Nuch Wegryzn make “difficult decision” to close One Thai as 15-year-old daughter Nada’s international karate career takes off.

The multi-storey at Northgate End is getting a paint job, automated main doors, artwork and an office on top of the Welcome Rangers already on duty.

Trading standards officers tested large consignment of earrings and found one design contained more than 7,000 times the maximum cadmium content.

Damien Devine says the London Road pub is undergoing extensive refurbishment by pub chain Stonegate before he and partner Noel Wright can reopen it.

Dominic Pegg teamed up with friend Mark Gostello to bring the shop at 1 Havers Lane Parade back to life after being empty for more than five years.

BID joint-manager Karen Burton attempts to bust the myth that Bishop’s Stortford town centre is ‘just coffee shops and hairdressers’

Help for hard-up householders with energy debt as multi-million-pound scheme is extended.

East Herts Council’s executive agreed a raft of rises from April, with all tariffs at Bell Street car park going up, apart from all day parking.

Thorn Grove head Peter Luck said: “Castle Water has now demanded full payment… showing a complete lack of concern for the impact on our school.”

Kate Birbeck, who lives in a village near Bishop’s Stortford, writes about the problems she and her husband had with BT when hoping to change contract

Work to boost speed, performance and coverage may cause intermittent sound, blocky or pixelated images or loss of signal for households.

Cllr Eric Buckmaster criticised planned changes in Sawbridgeworth, which would see the fee for up to two hours rise 50p (55%) from 90p to £1.40.

One resident said his internet provider told him there was “rodent damage in the exchange” and another said it was a problem at the Harlow exchange.

Opening of the supermarket in Stansted Road, on the former site of Ford motor dealer Gates of Stortford, will create around 40 jobs.