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Privately-run hospital taken over by NHS after patient deaths following routine surgery
Thursday 01 August 2013
Commissioning Support Unit confirm services currently provided by Clinicenta will transfer to East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Yoga classes and hair salons? Every little helps for Tesco
Monday 29 July 2013
Tesco is hoping to offset the mundane nature of the weekly food shop by turning its out-of-town supermarkets into ‘exciting retail destinations’ offering everything from yoga classes to cookery courses.
The Royston ring of steel: Data watchdog warns police that surveillance scheme in rural Hertfordshire town is 'unlawful'
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Monitoring of car number plates by CCTV cameras is ‘excessive’, rules data Information Commissioner's Office
Man jailed for murdering ex-girlfriend with dumbbell in front of daughter
Monday 22 July 2013
The 22-year-old struck his ex-partner with a dumbbell after she threatened to report him to police for assaulting her
Allotment-holders take legal action against Eric Pickles
Sunday 21 July 2013
Legal action launched over decision to allow sale of sites
The Apprentice Final 2013: 'I'm not always right,' admits Luisa
Wednesday 17 July 2013
Cake shop boss says the programme had helped to tame her
Day release double killer on run after 'Good Samaritan' stabbed to death
Sunday 14 July 2013
Police issued an all-ports alert for Ian John McCloughlin
Paris rail crash 'due to Potters Bar-style fault'
Sunday 14 July 2013
Friday's derailment, in which at least six died, raises major questions over track maintenance
Paul Gascoigne arrested over 'drunken assault' of ex-wife Sheryl
Saturday 06 July 2013
Former England international allegedly grabbed a security guard by the throat before attacking ex-wife
Trainspotters turn out at London's King's Cross to see Bittern locomotive
Saturday 29 June 2013
Outing commemorates Mallard setting record speed in 1938
Woman arrested on suspicion of helping school teacher Jeremy Forrest coach his victim for trial
Thursday 27 June 2013
Jeremy Forrest has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for abducting his pupil to France
Police arrest 11-year-old Rebecca Thompson's father over her murder in Hertfordhire
Monday 24 June 2013
52-year-old is currently in hospital after car crash hours before the girl's body was found
Cost of policing Bilderberg conference was £1.3m
Monday 17 June 2013
The cost of policing the Bilderberg conference – a meeting of politicians, academics and business leaders – in Hertfordshire last week was more than £1m, the Home Office has revealed.
Sonic boom heard in three counties 'broke windows' and prompted deluge of emergency calls
Monday 17 June 2013
The Ministry of Defence said it was caused when the jets were responding to another aircraft which lost communication
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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