Opinion

A chess piece Nativity, a political statement and a knitted Jesus all featured in the Bishop’s Stortford Methodist Church Crib Festival.

Organisers of Saturday’s Christmas Fayre are reflecting on a successful event – but what did residents, visitors, stallholders and performers think?

Local newspaper editors regard the BBC as a state-funded juggernaut on course to suffocate independent journalism in every UK city, town and village.

Graham McAndrew, a Stortford member of the county and district councils, writes in response to news of the closure of Fordes Home in North St.

Simon Anderson, a director of Bishop’s Stortford-based professional theatre company Contexture and a resident of the town, writes on Old River Lane.

East Herts Council deputy leader Cllr Mione Goldspink updates Indie readers on the authority’s proposed Old River Lane development.

East Herts Council’s Green and Liberal Democrat administration has once again hit the pause button for Bishop’s Stortford.

Louise Tennekoon says Rishi Sunak should ease the burden on households by kickstarting a programme of home insulation and energy efficiency.

Indie correspondent Stephen Cronie says motorists must be forced to use the Northgate End multi-storey – by banning long-stay parking elsewhere.

Olivia Singh, a 20-year-old university student from Bishop’s Stortford, recalls her own A-level results day at Birchwood High School.

Bishop’s Stortford High School A-level student Alex Banhidai takes up the Indie’s challenge to write about his 10 favourite places in Stortford.

Fatima Patel, a resident of Bishop’s Stortford with her young family, writes for the Indie on what the Muslim celebration Eid means to her...

Columnist Louise Tennekoon on why she thinks joining Extinction Rebellion protest The Big One in London in April is so important

Chas Gill attended nine Bishop's Stortford annual town meetings in his time as a councillor – this time he went as a member of the public.

A self-confessed "recovering" ex-BBC journalist from Bishop's Stortford says the mood among former colleagues is 'mutinous'.

Columnist Chas Gill says phased development of retail and residential first will create financial elbow room for an eventual permanent arts centre.

Occasional Indie columnist and former mayor of Bishop's Stortford Chas Gill on why East Herts Council must go back to the drawing board on ORL.

Green Watch columnist Louise Tennekoon looks at how we can act collectively to start disrupting the system and cure our addiction to fossil fuels

"I urge everyone to look out for the consultation on the application, which, as a part of the statutory planning process, will open for 21 days."

Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan writes as part of Journalism Matters, the media industry's annual week-long campaign to champion journalism.