Heritage

Greater Anglia employee Michael King has transformed the ticket offices at Stansted and Sawbridgeworth railway stations.

Events supported include beacon lightings, village fetes, music events, community picnics, street and garden parties, and tree plantings.

Bishop's Stortford BID and the town council turned the high street red, white and blue by running a window display competition for traders.

“The honours awarded range from CBEs to BEMs and demonstrate the diversity of good deeds being done by our residents around the county and beyond."

A round-up of festivities and activities for all the family, including beacon lightings, music festival and community picnics.

Events at Stortford's arts venue kick off with crown crafts in the museum on Wednesday and end with a music and comedy festival on Sunday.

Village festivities get under way with beacon lighting ceremony on Recreation Ground on Thursday followed by community picnic on Saturday.

Street parties galore, Bish Bash music festival, shop window competition, children's town trail, beacon lighting and tree planting on the agenda.

Official celebrations kick off on Thursday (June 2) with the lighting of a beacon at Sayesbury Manor at 9.45pm.

Artwork on wall of Sayesbury Manor shows images of Elizabeth II when she was crowned in June 1953 and one as she is now aged 96.

Save The Bull Action Group wants to secure future of Much Hadham's only pub, which is rumoured to be the burial site of a circus elephant.

Visitors enjoyed trips along the Stort, a free paddle in a kayak and the chance to examine some fascinating finds in the bio-zone tent.

Landscape archaeologist Simon Coxall was guest speaker at annual meeting in Manuden of the Recorders of Uttlesford History.

Nine bells from St Michael's have been taken to Oxfordshire for work by the oldest, continuously trading bell-hanging company in the UK.

A new exhibition delves into Audley End's role as a centre for training elite Polish paratroopers during the Second World War.

Sawbridgeworth Local History Society chairman David Royle led the group on the trail and tried out the new QR codes scattered around the town.

County council receives over 500 applications for events over extended bank holiday weekend of Thursday to Sunday, June 2-5.

The fayre was spread around the town, with food stalls and music on Fair Green and fairground rides at Bell Street car park.

Art group The Goldbrush have been commissioned by Bishop's Stortford Town Council to decorate nine seats along South Street.

Experts have been excavating a site at Grange Paddocks where East Herts Council is installing a 3G artificial sports pitch this summer.