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Plans to build a car park and toilet block in Forster Country, Stevenage, could be approved tonight (Tuesday).

Stevenage Forster Country: Judgment day for country park plans
A planning application to build a car park and toilet block as part of a development of 800 homes in Stevenage's Forster Country is set to be decided tonight (Tuesday).

Covid the Cobra in Stevenage was started by the Parnell family during the first lockdown in 2020.

Stevenage: What has happened to Covid the Cobra?

How some of the new homes in Forster Country, Stevenage, could look. Bellway has promised the new homes within the conservation area will include traditional features such as chimneys and gable-fronted porch canopies.

Stevenage Forster Country: Developer promises 'sympathetic' new neighbourhood

Knebworth House and Edward Bulwer Lytton, who died 150 years ago.

Community contribution Edward Bulwer Lytton: A Victorian man of letters and politics

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An Ashwell pilot is remembered as part of a campaign to commemorate the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit of WWII

Campaign to commemorate heroic Ashwell war photographer

Harpenden's Lieut Cdr E S Sinclair aboard HMS Eskimo.

The faces of Hertfordshire's Second World War heroes

The murders of Anne Noblett and 'Baldock Woman' are just two cold cases yet to be solved.

5 mysterious unsolved murders that shocked Hertfordshire

The church began in a wooden hall, but is now as large as it has ever been.

Letchworth church celebrates 100 years of serving the community

An Avro Lancaster, similar to the aircraft Squadron Leader Knight was flying when he died.

Do you know anything about Letchworth's lost Second World War pilot?

Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in episode 5 of You. Here he is pictured outside Knebworth House.

YOU: Hertfordshire filming location of Hampsbridge House in Netflix thriller

Damien described a number of incidents at the house.

'England's Most Haunted House' in Chicksands?

Sir Oliver Heald signs the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment.

North East Herts MP marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Memorial Day will be marked in Stevenage with a special event.

Holocaust Memorial Day: Stevenage plans special event

Planning permission has been granted to turn Chells Manor House in Stevenage back into a home.

Plans approved for 14th century Stevenage manor house

14 items have been nominated for the award by museums across the county.

Vote for your favourite Herts Museum Object of the Year

The event is being held at Hitchin Library.

Second World War historian to visit Hitchin Library

Stevenage Lonsdale School's deputy headteacher, Claudia Thiele, and headteacher, Annemari Ottridge, with the Queen's Green Canopy tree.

Stevenage school creates memorial garden to remember pupils and staff who have died

A soldier from the Hertfordshire Regiment receives a message from a motorcycle despatch rider on the Italian front.

The Hertfordshire Regiment and the Second World War

Tom Karen being awarded his OBE in 2019

Legendary Letchworth designer Tom Karen dies aged 96

Towns across Hertfordshire raised money to help build Spitfires for the war effort.

How Hertfordshire helped fund Second World War Spitfires

A German and British soldier share a cigarette together as part of the Christmas Truce.

Hertfordshire soldiers and the Christmas Truce of WWI

Sir Tim Wilson is one of the new governors.

Four new governors elected to Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation

All aboard! Flying Scotsman coming to Stevenage in centenary year

All aboard! Flying Scotsman coming to Stevenage in centenary year

Remembrance services took place across Stevenage and North Herts

Remembrance 2022: Stevenage and North Herts services in pictures

From L to R: Earl Jowitt; Baroness Denington of Stevenage; Baroness Williams of Crosby; Baroness Taylor of Stevenage.

Historic Stevenage connections to the House of Lords

Letchworth Rugby Club honour former player who 'had a job to do' in World War Two

Letchworth Rugby Club honour former player who 'had a job to do' in World War Two

Plans to open dessert house in Stevenage High Street

Plans to open dessert house in Stevenage High Street

Stevenage Borough Council leader Sharon Taylor laying a wreath at last year's service

Remembrance 2022: Services in Stevenage and North Herts

Georgia O’Keeffe, Goat’s Horns II, 1945, from Some Memories of Drawings, 1974 © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS, London 2022.

Three exhibitions open at North Herts museums

The ghost reportedly stepped on the train while travelling at full speed through Hatfield.

Did the Great Northern Railway ghost stop a train crash?

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II and Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in The Crown, Season 5.

The Crown season five features scenes filmed on location at Knebworth House

Herbert Cooper was killed at the age of 18, during the First World War.

Aston man travels to Belgium to honour fallen soldier

St Albans Cathedral.

Hertfordshire heritage: Developing trade in medieval times – by fair means or foul

Old versus new high street image with an old photograph in frame.

How to take part in Historic England's Picturing High Streets photography competition

John Clements was awarded the George Cross for his actions in Sappada.

Remembering the heroics and bravery of the late John Clements

Stevenage Charter Fair has been held since 1281

Stevenage Charter Fair returns this week

The V-1 that landed at Datchworth was the last enemy action of any kind on British soil.

Datchworth and the last enemy action of the Second World War

Charles III, then Prince of Wales, on a visit to the Purcell Music School in 1998

7 Hertfordshire locations visited by King Charles III

Renovation work on Charnwood House in Hitchin is set to start next week with asbestos removal

Renovation of Hitchin's Charnwood House set to start

The Ebenezer Howard statue in Welwyn Garden City town centre.

Columnist Hertfordshire heritage: Ebenezer Howard – a visionary for Garden Cities

Lynda Palmer grew up on the Jackmans Estate with parents Ken and Mary Fennemore

A day of nostalgia at Jackmans Estate's 60th anniversary event

Grand opening of the Jackmans Estate by actor Sam Kidd and Chairman of the Council Charles Sax

Celebrating 60 years of the Jackmans Estate

The grass dried out on the Sunken Lawn at Knebworth House.

Gallery Summer dry weather reveals ornate designs of Knebworth House's Victorian gardens

Harry Styles and Emma Corrin star in My Policeman. Here they are pictured in Hitchin's outdoor pool.

Special Report Herts, Camera, Action! Hatfield event shines spotlight on Hertfordshire's filming opportunities

A view from Queensway down Market Place on a busy shopping day in 1963.

What are your memories of Stevenage town centre and its shops?

Cromer Windmill, Hertfordshire's sole surviving windmill

The Last Survivor: History of Cromer Windmill in Hertfordshire

The early morning sun shines down on these tennis fans at Wimbledon. Many fans had camped out all night in the hope of getting tickets for the Men's singles final between Ilie Nastase and Bjorn Born. Date: July 3, 1976.

Gallery A scorching summer: The Heatwave of 1976 in 25 photos

A planning application has been submitted to turn Chells Manor House in Stevenage back into a home

Change of plans for 14th century manor house after controversial application withdrawn

Princess Elizabeth - daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King and Queen of England) - waves from the carriage as she drives in London in 1928.

17 adorable photos of Queen Elizabeth II before she acceded to the throne

We've put together a list of some of the most memorable royal visits to Hertfordshire from down the years.

Gallery Platinum Jubilee: Hertfordshire's royal visits in pictures

The colourful tiled mural by the artist Gyula Bajó and 'Scenes of Contemporary Life' mural by William Mitchell at the Park Place, St George's Way underpass in Stevenage, both newly listed at Grade II.

The history behind two Stevenage public murals - one at Primark - now protected with listed status

A tiled mural by Gyula Bajo and relief sculpture by William Mitchell in Stevenage have both been given Grade II listed status

Stevenage public artworks given Grade II listed status

This year marks 70 years since The Queen's accession to the throne in 1952.

Remembering the Queen's coronation day in 1953