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The tree disease pandemic posing major threat to Stortford's 'green lungs'

03 October 2021

Daniel Brett, secretary of the Birchanger Wood Trust, issues a rallying cry to the community to get behind the woodland as it battles ash dieback

Stortford MP: Panic-buying queues for petrol are a 'confected crisis'

30 September 2021

Julie Marson, MP for Hertford and Stortford, on the fuel crisis, Insulate Britain and knifepoint robbery at Budgens in Sawbridgeworth

'You don’t have to knock it down to have a knockout development'

02 September 2021

Urban planner and designer Yvonne Estop-Wood, of the Old River Lane Working Group, makes the case for keeping Charringtons House.

Stortford MP 'particularly concerned about prospects for Afghan women and girls'

30 August 2021

Julie Marson's office working with Foreign Office and Home Office to try to help local people and their families stranded and at grave risk in Kabul

Don't go with the flow – action needed now to cut our water usage

30 August 2021

Green Watch columnist Louise Tennekoon's top tips to cut your water use as prospect looms of the UK's demand for water outstripping supply around 2045

'It's not enough to imagine the world we want. We must start living it, right here and now.'

20 August 2021

When world leaders meet in Glasgow to discuss the planet's future, people in Stortford can meet to talk about what we can do to change our own future.

'Losing peacetime progress in Afghanistan would be tragedy for us all'

18 August 2021

Hertford and Stortford MP Julie Marson on the situation in Afghanistan, A-level and GCSE results and digital connectivity

'Attempts to get back to normal are not proving straightforward'

16 August 2021

Parkinality columnist Julie Walker on coming to terms with the world post-lockdown

A-levels: 'Uncertainty, confusion and chaos... but also new opportunities'

12 August 2021

Lizzie Roberts, of Hatfield Broad Oak, achieved A*s in German, Latin and economics. Here she reflects on her experience of A-levels in the pandemic.

Supermarket recycling scheme could help us to clean up our act

30 July 2021

Sainsbury's has launched a new recycling scheme for flexible plastic packaging in 520 of its stores, including in Bishop's Stortford

MP: 'Restrictions easing is a positive, but still scary times for some'

22 July 2021

Stortford MP Julie Marson says she is listening to constituents' concerns as the Government eases coronavirus restrictions as planned.

Stortford MP: 'Creeping sense of hope is making us dare to dream'

07 July 2021

Julie Marson on England's Euro 2020 run, the PM's 5-point plan for 'living with Covid' and proposed warehouse distribution centre at Stortford South

'Get your jab ASAP so we can win the race against virus'

25 June 2021

Stortford MP Julie Marson on Covid vaccinations for over-18s, the Bishop's Stortford South distribution centre and the Gilston neighbourhood plan

'Your voice is needed to shape the future of healthcare for women'

10 June 2021

Hertford and Stortford MP Julie Marson is urging her constituents to give evidence to help shape the Women's Health Strategy

'Putting myself through a testing time for brain surgery chance'

17 May 2021

The Indie's Parkinality columnist Julie Walker is hoping to have deep brain stimulation in her battle with Parkinson's disease

'Culture shift on mental health will prove crucial after pandemic'

13 May 2021

Bishop's Stortford MP Julie Marson on Mental Health Awareness Week and how our reconnection with nature will be important in post-coronavirus world

Council elections: It’s YOUR money, so vote to determine how it's spent

05 May 2021

OPINION: Bishop's Stortford Independent news editor Sinead Corr on why putting an X in the box on Thursday (May 6) matters.

Retiring SSE chairman reflects on two decades of fighting airport expansion

30 April 2021

Peter Sanders said: "Looking to the future, there may not be any immediate threat of a second runway but we must remain on our guard."

Vote wisely on May 6 – it's the most potent lever you have to fight climate crisis

29 April 2021

Indie GreenWatch columnist Louise Tennekoon: "I am not arguing against development. I’m arguing for thoughtful custodianship of nature."

'We need a cultural revolution that makes it much less socially acceptable to drop litter'

28 April 2021

Hertford and Stortford MP Julie Marson's latest fortnightly column for the Bishop's Stortford Independent.

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The tree disease pandemic posing major threat to Stortford's 'green lungs'

The tree disease pandemic posing major threat to Stortford's 'green lungs'

Stortford MP: Panic-buying queues for petrol are a 'confected crisis'

Stortford MP: Panic-buying queues for petrol are a 'confected crisis'

'You don’t have to knock it down to have a knockout development'

'You don’t have to knock it down to have a knockout development'

Stortford MP 'particularly concerned about prospects for Afghan women and girls'

Stortford MP 'particularly concerned about prospects for Afghan women and girls'

Don't go with the flow – action needed now to cut our water usage

Don't go with the flow – action needed now to cut our water usage

'It's not enough to imagine the world we want. We must start living it, right here and now.'

'It's not enough to imagine the world we want. We must start living it, right here and now.'

'Losing peacetime progress in Afghanistan would be tragedy for us all'

'Losing peacetime progress in Afghanistan would be tragedy for us all'

'Attempts to get back to normal are not proving straightforward'

'Attempts to get back to normal are not proving straightforward'

A-levels: 'Uncertainty, confusion and chaos... but also new opportunities'

A-levels: 'Uncertainty, confusion and chaos... but also new opportunities'

Supermarket recycling scheme could help us to clean up our act

Supermarket recycling scheme could help us to clean up our act

MP: 'Restrictions easing is a positive, but still scary times for some'

MP: 'Restrictions easing is a positive, but still scary times for some'

Stortford MP: 'Creeping sense of hope is making us dare to dream'

Stortford MP: 'Creeping sense of hope is making us dare to dream'

'Get your jab ASAP so we can win the race against virus'

'Get your jab ASAP so we can win the race against virus'

'Your voice is needed to shape the future of healthcare for women'

'Your voice is needed to shape the future of healthcare for women'

'Putting myself through a testing time for brain surgery chance'

'Putting myself through a testing time for brain surgery chance'

'Culture shift on mental health will prove crucial after pandemic'

'Culture shift on mental health will prove crucial after pandemic'

Council elections: It’s YOUR money, so vote to determine how it's spent

Council elections: It’s YOUR money, so vote to determine how it's spent

Retiring SSE chairman reflects on two decades of fighting airport expansion

Retiring SSE chairman reflects on two decades of fighting airport expansion

Vote wisely on May 6 – it's the most potent lever you have to fight climate crisis

Vote wisely on May 6 – it's the most potent lever you have to fight climate crisis

'We need a cultural revolution that makes it much less socially acceptable to drop litter'

'We need a cultural revolution that makes it much less socially acceptable to drop litter'

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