Human Interest

Schoolchildren from Rickling CoE Primary are enjoying making friends with the elderly residents of Mountfitchet House.

Beth Purvis, aka Bowel Warrior, writes a column for the Indie about living with stage 4 cancer as a 40-year-old married mother of two.

Lian Brook-Tyler, a Stortford primary school mum who lives in Farnham, writes a new column, Wild&Happy, for the Indie. This is her story...

Chauffeur-driven trip to see Dear Evan Hansen is Birchwood student Katie Callaghan's reward for supporting other sick children.

Polish-born Hannah Lewis, 82, returned to The Bishop's Stortford High School as students prepared to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

The 51-year-old Sawbridgeworth woman revealed her body “went into slow mo except for a hamster wheel of black thoughts incessantly whirling round”.

In January 2019, a large mass was found around his kidney, then another on his spine, and the disease has spread to his bones and bone marrow.

English O’Clock is a conversation group set up by Stortford residents to help people from all over the world improve their English language skills.

As clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, first-time mum Amberley Hamilton was heading to Princess Alexandra Hospital to give birth to baby girl.

Former Leventhorpe student Sam Faulkner, 24, is taking on the challenge of cycling from John o' Groats to Land's End in aid of Isabel Hospice.

Three-year-old Jacob Taylor spent Christmas in isolation in Great Ormond Street hospital because of his rare and life-threatening health condition.

Gill Mullins meets Ebe and Lucy Bonner as they mark the first anniversary of their first venture in the pub trade – their own local, The Brewery Tap.

Peter Scarlett proposed to Kath on Boxing Day 1957 beneath clear blue skies on a park bench in front of King's College Chapel beside the River Cam.

Residents at a Bishop's Stortford care home have been reaching out across the generations in a bid to break down barriers between young and old

Youth CREATE took over the Villa Italia in Bell Street for an interactive murder mystery event for 80 guests.

Lynn Bryant, who has delivered mail in Sawbo for 14 years, needs to raise £1,500 to take part in the World Deaf XV championships in South Africa.

Man with one leg and woman recovering from cancer op among residents of Bishop's Stortford sheltered housing block affected by breakdown.

'The five months of prodding, poking and waiting for results was far worse than the actual diagnosis'

The 24 boys and girls aged 8-10 created a main course of vegetable kidney bean stew and dessert of bread and butter pudding for the first guests.

For the past six years, Alison-Jane Sanger has created gift bags for dementia patients who might otherwise miss out on festive cheer