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Kacey Ainsworth: from EastEnders to Grantchester

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Words: Debbie McMorran
Kacey Ainsworth (photo: Paul Clarke)

Kacey Ainsworth has, through sheer hard work and talent, avoided the typecasting trap of a major TV soap character. The Ware actress is now enjoying some of the most challenging and celebrated roles of her career

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April 2019

Stanley Kubrick in Hertfordshire: the Childwickbury years

Monday, April 1, 2019
Stanley Kubrick, age 21, 1949 (LOOK Magazine Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division)

Close to Elstree and Pinewood studios and with the space and privacy to let his imagination run free, Stanley Kubrick’s Herts home-cum-workplace played a key role in his later films. Richard Luck explores the links and myths on the 20th anniversary of the director’s death

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April 2019

Jamie Cullum: 'The left-field jazz that you can dance and lose yourself to is what Cheltenham does well'

Thursday, March 14, 2019 Katie Jarvis
Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum will be showcasing songs from his new album at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival – and it’s going to be emotional

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Paul Ryan on becoming Nigel Farage

Monday, February 11, 2019
Paul Ryan as Nigel Farage in Brexit: The Uncivil War (photo: Nick Wall)

Paul Ryan is Nigel Farage in the much-discussed Brexit: The Uncivil War. The Northchurch actor talks to Sandra Smith about becoming the love-him-or-loathe-him character and being an ‘actorpreneur’

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February 2019

The JVS Show: the making of a chat show host

Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Words: Gillian Thornton
Jonathan Vernon-Smith at St Michael's Manor, St Albans (photo: Warren Cooper)

Emotional phone-ins, consumer rights and owing his career to a pair of rabbits, the voice of The JVS Show on BBC Three Counties Radio talks about his life and what it takes to put on the award-winning programme

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February 2019

Local People

17 world firsts from Hertfordshire

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Stevenage-built Aeolus satellite, the world's first weather space mission (photo: European Space Agency)

Inventions and ideas fostered and created in Hertfordshire have helped shape our world. From engineering to food and cutting-edge science, the county has been at the forefront of change

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April 2019

1349: the Black Death comes to Hertfordshire

Monday, April 1, 2019 Words: Michael Long
Illustrations from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)

Spring of 1349 in Hertfordshire came with a black cloud - a plague that would wipe out as much as half the population. It brought death but also major social change

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April 2019

50 richest people in Hertfordshire 2019

Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Lewis Hamilton after winning the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix (photo: Paul Ripke for Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd)

From film and sport to construction and pharmaceuticals, discover who the richest Hertfordshire people are this year and just how they’re faring in strange times

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Wallington: the Hertfordshire village that George Orwell called home

Monday, March 18, 2019
Gerge Orwell c 1940 (photo: Cassowary Colorizations)

Seventy years on from the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Liz Hamilton walks in George Orwell’s footsteps in the village that played a pivotal role in his life and works

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March 2019

Nostalgic old videos of Hertfordshire

Friday, March 1, 2019 Samuel Mathewson
These old photos of Hertfordshire will leave you feeling nostalgic (photo: deserontoarchives, Flickr)

Travel back in time to the good old days of Hertfordshire’s past with these nostalgic archive videos

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Charity

Charity: Up on Downs

Monday, December 17, 2018
Up on Downs gives support to those with the syndrome and their whole family

Helping the families of Hertfordshire children of all ages with Down’s syndrome with support, community, information and fun

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December 2018

Charity spotlight: For Baby's Sake

Monday, July 16, 2018 Words: North Herts CVS
For Baby's Sake helps break the cycle of domestic abuse

An innovative scheme set up by the Stefanou Foundation to support new parents affected by domestic abuse

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July 2018

Charity: Hertfordshire Independent Living Service

Tuesday, June 19, 2018
HILS provides home-delivered meals and much more to its clients (photo: HILS)

Delivering meals, support and social opportunities to older people across the county

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June 2018

Charity of the month: British Heart Foundation

Monday, May 21, 2018 Words: North Herts CVS
Herts resident Kieran Sandwell, 46, was born with a major heart defect and had a heart transplant at the age of 38. He began walking the entire coastline of Britain last February to raise awareness and funds for the British Heart Foundation (photo: BHF)

The life-saving charity is calling on Herts people to set up local action groups to be the community face of the BHF

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May 2018

Charity spotlight: Herts Disability Sports Foundation

Monday, April 16, 2018 Words: North Herts CVS
Wheelchair basketball, just one of the many sports on offer

A young organisation creating opportunities for all to benefit from and enjoy sport in the county

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April 2018
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