Highfield School hosted the employability masterclass with more than 170 Year 10 students as a way of getting students thinking about employment when they leave school and identify the skills businesses look for in the recruitment process.

Following a nationwide search, a Letchworth woman has been appointed as the UK’s first official ‘pub-licist’ – a regular pub-goer who gets paid to visit their local, drink beer, watch sports games and catch up with friends.

A Letchworth business owner, who has “shone a new light on homelessness and deprivation”, has received two nominations for our Comet Community Awards.

Art A-level students from the Highfield and Fearnhill schools have contributed work to the annual exhibition which opens today.

A Baldock primary school has scrapped the use of plastic straws with carton drinks, in a bid to do its bit for the environment.

Students at Fearnhill School in Letchworth have brought home a winning trophy after a public speaking competiton in Hitchin.

A series of new dates for the Letchworth Chatter Tables have been announced following the successful launch of the scheme last month.

Letchworth’s Heritage Foundation has launched its three-year strategy which aims to make the town “a great place for everyone”.

With a combination of post-Christmas gloom and dark and cold nights, today has been awarded the title of Blue Monday.

A Letchworth man who ran a youth group from a town community centre has been sentenced to three years in prison for making and posessing indecent photographs and moving images of children, and the sexual exploitation of a 16-year-old girl.

Patients using Garden House Hospice Care’s gym are making the most of a new treadmill which has been bought after a series of fundraising efforts by a Royston running club.

A new club has raised more than £900 for Jackie’s Drop-in centre in Letchworth after the first of many ‘60s nights.

A Letchworth distribution centre has donated £1,000 to Greenside School in Stevenage.

Garden House Hospice Care staff welcomed Central Bedfordshire Council’s vice chairman to the opening of its new store in Fairfield.

A new term is set to start at the Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living, which will bring more than 80 classes and workshops to the people of Stevenage and North Herts.

A 27-year-old man was arrested in Letchworth on Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in connection with the shooting of a 26-year-old man in Hoddesdon.

Residents at a Letchworth care home were well and truly in the Christmas spirit last Wednesday, as they took a festive trip to Frosts Garden Centre in Willington.

The Letchworth Business Improvement District will continue for another five years, following a ballot by the town’s businesses.

A 14-year-old boy has today been sentenced to five years in a detention centre for the stabbing of another teenager in Letchworth during a row over £20.

North Herts residents who opted-in to the council’s garden waste collection services will be offered a three-month extension period in light of issues which have affected many since the start of the contract with Urbaser in May.

A retired police officer from Letchworth is appealing for help after losing a medal awarded to him for his contribution to emergency services.

Three parked cars in Letchworth have been subject to criminal damage and police are now appealing for witnesses.

Letchworth’s Broadway Theatre is marking the centenary of the end of the First World War through film, spoken word, music and drama.

The Letchworth Music Club opens its next series of chamber music concerts on Wednesday.

Two of the cyclists ready to take on Garden House Hospice Care’s First World War centenary cycle challenge to France and Belgium have been speaking about what it means to be part of the trip.

A BMW driver was involved in a collision with two stationary cars in Letchworth earlier today.

Made in Chelsea and I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo will visit Letchworth early next month to discuss and sign her new book.

A 12-year-old boy from Letchworth has been awarded the national under 13s Player of the Year in rink hockey.

A Labour member of North Herts District Council has said waste service levels “cannot be allowed to continue”, after reporting around 800 missed collections in her ward in the last week.

Letchworth primary schools are to receive a book series – which aims to educate children about the impact of single-use plastics – thanks to a grant awarded by North Herts District Council.