Former Mayor and Hertford Museum Trustee Colin Harris has died after a long battle with leukaemia.

Mr.Harris was a town and district councillor for 1995 to 2003 and Mayor of the town from 1996-7 and 1999-2000. He was also active at Hertford Baptist Church in Cowbridge, where his funeral will take place on Monday.

A new road allowing access to Hartham has opened, replacing the former route through Hertford Brewery.

Traffic will now be routed to Hartham via Railway Approach and a new road to the North of the new Sainsbury's site. Previously, traffic passed through the site using a private road, which has now been closed.

The opening of the road will now give contractors unfettered access to the front of the new store and allow them to start work on the car park.

Tesco has opened a small coffee shop at their Ware Road store as part of improvements to the supermarket.

The small Costa Coffee features a handful of tables and sells a range of the company's coffees and snacks.

Tesco recently came in for criticism from town councillors Peter Ruffles and David Poole for offering additional in-store facilities that compete directly with town centre businesses.

Two new shops have opened in Hertford town centre this week.

A sweetshop opened in Bull Plain, offering confectionery, ice cream and milkshakes. Sugacane is a fast growing franchise offering a range of own brand confectionery, including our home made Suga LIKKERS Lolly pops, boiled sweets, and PoshPuffs marshmallows.

In Honey Lane, the former premises of Mootilicious has become Honey Lane Antiques.

An unemployed man from Mead Lane has been changed with attempted murder after a 64 year old man was found with facial fractures and broken hands on a Harlow playing field.

Bradley Burnip (29) was arrested on 2nd February and remanded in custody to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on 16th April.

The elderly victim from Sheering remains in hospital and is being treated for his injuries.

Police are also looking for the victim's car, a maroon Ford Escort with the registration M953 OAN.

Channel Four are currently looking for homes to renovate in the county as part of a new show called "The Renovation Game".

In the show, a professional team of 3 builders and an interior designer to work together with the challenge of carrying out renovation work on a property, with the intention of increasing the value by at least £15,000. The team are given a budget of £3000 and 3 days in which to complete the task. If they fail to meet the target increase, they don't get paid!

The renovation is completely FREE for the home-owner and we could significantly increase the value of their home.

Anyone interested in taking part should contact Hannah Walker on 0117 970 7612.

Dutch rail company Abellio have formally taken over services at Hertford East station.

Immediate changes include the freezing of car parking charges until the end of the year, additional customer service staff and a doubling of safety and securty staff.

Fares and train times are currently unchanged.

There will be few cosmetic changes initially as the franchise is only for 29 months. This means there will be no overhaul of signage or train liveries. 

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A man was seriously assaulted at The StoneHouse in Bull Plain on Friday night.

The incident happened in the smoking area outside of the pub around 11:45 pm.

The victim was a 21–year–old man from Ware, who sustained serious injuries to his face which required treatment at hospital following the incident.

Detective Constable Kirsty Richardson, who is investigating the incident, said: "This was a particularly nasty assault which has left the victim with life changing injuries which required hospital treatment. We believe this attack was unprovoked and we are urging anyone with information to contact us as a matter of urgency."

Anyone with information can contact DC Richardson on 101 quoting crime reference number A1/12/281.