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Who'd solve mysteries like these? The clues - and coos - are there

Who'd solve mysteries like these? The clues - and coos - are there

Follow Bishop's Stortford College Prep School librarian Lizzie Hall into the world of mystery books, if you dare...

Top author and journalist to sign copies of new book in Bishop's Stortford

Top author and journalist to sign copies of new book in Bishop's Stortford

Top author and journalist to sign copies of new book in Bishop's Stortford

Luke Harding, best-selling author, The Guardian award-winning journalist and Stortford resident, to showcase Shadow State at Indie office.

Stortford artist Peter Blascos on progressing from sketching to painting - and meeting Sting

Stortford artist Peter Blascos on progressing from sketching to painting - and meeting Sting

Stortford artist Peter Blascos on progressing from sketching to painting - and meeting Sting

Bishop's Stortford Art Society member Peter Blascos, who once met the former Police front man while painting, shares some of his favourite pictures

Super stories to keep the reading fires burning over the summer holidays

Super stories to keep the reading fires burning over the summer holidays

Super stories to keep the reading fires burning over the summer holidays

Bishop's Stortford College prep school librarian Lizzie Hall's recommended books to get children inspired for the Summer Reading Challenge

Photo gallery: Owls out on the hunt in the skies over the River Stort

Photo gallery: Owls out on the hunt in the skies over the River Stort

Photo gallery: Owls out on the hunt in the skies over the River Stort

Rick Stead, who is a member of the Stortford Nature group on Facebook, has captured these beautiful images of owls hunting around the River Stort

Photo gallery: Stortford camera club members capture stunning sunrises and sensational sunsets

Photo gallery: Stortford camera club members capture stunning sunrises and sensational sunsets

Photo gallery: Stortford camera club members capture stunning sunrises and sensational sunsets

Check out these amazing pictures of sunrises and sunsets from the latest Bishop's Stortford Camera Club weekly challenge

Picture gallery: Camera club members tackle the topic of Town & Country

Picture gallery: Camera club members tackle the topic of Town & Country

Picture gallery: Camera club members tackle the topic of Town & Country

For this week's images, members of Bishop's Stortford Camera Club were tasked with taking and submitting pictures on the theme of Town & Country

COMEDY

Hot Chip join Primal Scream as headliners for Standon Calling 2020

Hot Chip join Primal Scream as headliners for Standon Calling 2020

Hot Chip join Primal Scream as headliners for Standon Calling 2020

East Herts prepares to host one of the UK's hottest festivals for its 15th year this July, with more acts to be announced.

World Cup hero, music hall legend and TV comedy great headline Rhodes' new season

World Cup hero, music hall legend and TV comedy great headline Rhodes' new season

World Cup hero, music hall legend and TV comedy great headline Rhodes' new season

Spring brings drama productions and comedy shows on Rhodes' own stage plus West End musicals, London ballets and Hollywood movies on its big screen.

TV comedian Hal Cruttenden to play Stortford's Laughing Bishops Comedy Club

TV comedian Hal Cruttenden to play Stortford's Laughing Bishops Comedy Club

TV comedian Hal Cruttenden to play Stortford's Laughing Bishops Comedy Club

“I talk about my wife and kids in an incredibly disparaging way... but to them it’s just Dad being an arse."
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MUSIC

Call to music fans to help save Standon Calling

Call to music fans to help save Standon Calling

Call to music fans to help save Standon Calling

Founder Alex Trenchard hung on until May in the hope of avoiding cancelling the 15th-anniversary bash which was due to take place from July 23 to 26.

Get in touch with your creative side to keep mental SCALES fine tuned

Get in touch with your creative side to keep mental SCALES fine tuned

Get in touch with your creative side to keep mental SCALES fine tuned

Retune founder and musician Tom Ryder continues his look at the charity's SCALES system for improving wellbeing with the letter C, for creativity

Northern Soul celebration returns in 2021

Northern Soul celebration returns in 2021

Northern Soul celebration returns in 2021

The Northern Soul, Mod, ska and punk music celebration was originally set to return to Great Amwell from Friday, May 22 to Sunday, May 24.

Drummer Lewis snares the chance to impress in BBC Young Musician percussion final

Drummer Lewis snares the chance to impress in BBC Young Musician percussion final

Drummer Lewis snares the chance to impress in BBC Young Musician percussion final

Former Hockerill Anglo-European College student Lewis Isaacs loved his TV moment when he took part in the percussion final of BBC Young Musician 2020
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PLACES TO GO

Nature Notes: Flitch Way and lagoons prove good spots for fine bug hunt

Nature Notes: Flitch Way and lagoons prove good spots for fine bug hunt

Nature Notes: Flitch Way and lagoons prove good spots for fine bug hunt

Jono Forgham heads to the Flitch Way and Stansted Airport lagoons to see what he can record for the Royal Entomological Society's National Insect Week

Call to music fans to help save Standon Calling

Call to music fans to help save Standon Calling

Call to music fans to help save Standon Calling

Founder Alex Trenchard hung on until May in the hope of avoiding cancelling the 15th-anniversary bash which was due to take place from July 23 to 26.

Hatfield Forest to reopen to visitors three months after being closed

Hatfield Forest to reopen to visitors three months after being closed

Hatfield Forest to reopen to visitors three months after being closed

Visitors to the 1,000-acre National Trust attraction near Takeley must book a parking space online.
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Theatre

Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company postpones its big Rhodes show in November

Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company postpones its big Rhodes show in November

Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company postpones its big Rhodes show in November

The award-winning group has decided "with incredibly heavy hearts" to mothball Kipps, the updated Half A Sixpence musical, until November 2021.

How to watch dozens of West End shows from your sofa

How to watch dozens of West End shows from your sofa

How to watch dozens of West End shows from your sofa

Never mind the front row, you can catch these shows from your front room as theatres make their productions available online.

Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company's brace of awards for Jekyll & Hyde

Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company's brace of awards for Jekyll & Hyde

Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company's brace of awards for Jekyll & Hyde

Fellow Stortford am dram group Water Lane wins NODA East award for its paddle steamer set for Murder on the Nile.

Water Lane stage Agatha Christie's bestselling murder mystery at Rhodes

Water Lane stage Agatha Christie's bestselling murder mystery at Rhodes

Water Lane stage Agatha Christie's bestselling murder mystery at Rhodes

A year on from its award-winning Murder on the Nile at Rhodes, the Bishop's Stortford am dram company is putting on And Then There Were None.
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TV AND FILM

I’m not a Eurovision fan, but The Story of Fire Saga gets my vote

I’m not a Eurovision fan, but The Story of Fire Saga gets my vote

I’m not a Eurovision fan, but The Story of Fire Saga gets my vote

Charlie Hughes reviews Netflix's Will Ferrell comedy, with its welcome dose of bonkers theatricality and surprisingly worthy music.

Enjoy a night in at the flix with Blue Velvet, Goodfells and Roma

Enjoy a night in at the flix with Blue Velvet, Goodfells and Roma

Enjoy a night in at the flix with Blue Velvet, Goodfells and Roma

Indie film reviewer and Bishop' Stortford College student Charlie Hughes counts down his top 10 movies available to watch now on Netflix

Extraction: The plot is confused but the action sequences are brutal

Extraction: The plot is confused but the action sequences are brutal

Extraction: The plot is confused but the action sequences are brutal

Bishop's Stortford College student and Indie film reviewer Charlie Hughes says Netflix movie Extraction is a flawed but thrilling action romp
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