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As students face an uncertain future following the A-Level results debacle, North Herts College has seen students attain success in their courses before some head off to university.

Following the cancellation of exams due to COVID-19, and the A-level results debacle last week, GCSE results are being awarded based on teacher and centre-assessed grades. Follow our live blog to see how pupils fared.

Year 6 pupils from Stonehill School in Letchworth said an emotional goodbye to primary school despite the lockdown.

This year, exams were cancelled due to coronavirus and results have been calculated based on mock grades. Follow our live blog to see how students fared

With school disrupted by coronavirus, Year 6 pupils found creative ways to say goodbye to primary school and celebrate the end of term.

After A-Level exams were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the University of Hertfordshire has confirmed it will hold places for students who are appealing their results.

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With Year 6 pupils’ final year of primary school disrupted by coronavirus, the Comet is giving children, schools and families the chance to say goodbye and wish them good luck as they move up to secondary school.

With Year 6 pupils leaving primary education and potentially missing out on celebrations, the Comet wants to help schools, parents and students mark this milestone through our newspaper and website.

Entries are now open for the 2020 Herts Business Awards to celebrate the hard work and achievements of firms and their people over the past 12 months.

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People living in Stevenage and Letchworth have written poetry and decorated their windows and bins for key workers.

People across Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth drew pictures, wrote poems and decorated their windows to say thank you to NHS staff and key workers.

A ‘Scrub Hub’ has been set up in Hertfordshire to respond to the desperate need for scrubs in the county’s hospitals, clinics and GP surgeries.

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The Comet asked NHS staff, carers and key workers to send in pictures of themselves for a gallery thanking them for all their hard work.

Hertfordshire Libraries are boosting their stock with a series of books giving children advice about mental health.

Police appealed for the public’s help in tracing a 30-year-old man who went missing from Radlett.

Six men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud victims in Baldock, Letchworth, Royston, Welwyn Hatfield and beyond.

A man who ran 401 marathons in 401 days is launching a sports hub in Hertfordshire for the mental health charity Mind.

Trains travelling between Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage and Royston are subject to delays due to a signalling fault.

A driver is believed to have suffered a medical episode at the wheel before their car came to a sudden stop on a roundabout in Stevenage this afternoon.

Trains running through Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage and Royston may be cancelled or delayed this morning due to a fault with the signalling system.

A woman who was riding on a motorbike was killed in a crash on the A1(M) between WGC and Stevenage at the weekend.

Trains travelling through Royston and Cambridge are delayed, affecting Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield.

Firefighters from Baldock and Hitchin attended a hut on fire in Letchworth in the early hours of this morning.

Police are appealing for witnesses and information after two motorcyclists were seriously injured on the A1(M) between Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage.