Politics

The 45th US president landed aboard Air Force One with First Lady Melania Trump at the start of his first UK state visit

Indie photographer Vikki Lince's pictures from Stansted, where the US president arrived aboard Air Force One at the start of a three-day state visit

TBSHS A Level student mows a message – with eye-catching greeting – in parents' gardens for incoming US president aboard Air Force One

Bishop's Stortford's MP says Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is 'effective leader... who can reach across the party and reach out to voters'

Hemel Hempstead Conservative Colette Wyatt-Lowe becomes chairman as her husband relinquishes vice-chairman position

Stortford Lib Dem chairman Mione Goldspink: "We plan to work very hard to justify the trust which the electors have shown in us."

'We hope Tories don't take this level of support – 40% of a 30% turnout – as an endorsement of their plans for Stortford South and Old River Lane'

Local elections review: Conservatives lost absolute majorities but retained control of town and district councils, winning 51 of the 67 seats

UK Independence Party fielded three candidates for East Herts Council – all in Stortford – who got 646 votes between them, 1.0% of the turnout

Green Party candidates won 5 seats on three councils in East Herts as war on climate change hots up

The lobbying workshop runs from 11am to 1pm at Bishop Stortford Library in The Causeway, on Saturday, May 25.

The party broke the Conservatives' stranglehold, winning 6 seats on East Herts Council and 5 on Bishop's Stortford Town Council

UK goes to the polls on May 23 to elect MEPs after fellow EU members agreed a Brexit delay until the end of October

The Liberal Democrats made the biggest gains in the district council elections as the Conservatives saw their overwhelming majority dented

The Conservatives lost their position as the biggest party on Sawbridgeworth Town Council as Independent candidates won seven of the 12 seats

Council leader Howard Rolfe among 20 Conservative casualties as his party are almost wiped out by Residents for Uttlesford (R4U)

Former mayor Colin Woodward loses second seat in a day as Liberal Democrats make five gains and Labour one

Veteran councillor and community stalwart Angela Alder will be joined on the district council by Ruth Buckmaster and John Burmicz

Ex-Stortford mayors Colin Woodward and Keith Warnell lose – Labour and Green Party win in Hertford and Ware

In 2015 the Tories won all 50 seats on East Herts Council and all 18 on Bishop's Stortford Town Council