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LOCAL HISTORY GROUP PRESENTS MP WITH THE WARTIME STORY OF LEMSFORD VILLAGE
Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps recently met with local history enthusiast Andy Chapman to receive a copy of “Lest We Forget: The Story of Lemsford Parish”; an account of Lemsford between 1913 and 1919. The fascinating compendium focuses particularly on the 21...
read moreCommunity group wins £10,000 National Lottery funding
Local community group Welwyn Hatfield Community Services was recently awarded £10,000 by the National Lottery Community Fund, to support their work with vulnerable women and families. Set up by Welwyn Hatfield residents Lola and Jessica, the organisation supports...
read moreConstruction Given Green Light on A1(M) Upgrade
With the design phase of the project completed, Highways England have announced that construction on the planned A1(M) ‘Smart Motorway’ upgrade will begin in March 2020. Traffic flows between J6-8 have long exceeded intended capacity, and with 13,000 new homes planned...
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Thrilled to see Hatfield recognised as one of Britain’s most thriving communities proving it to be one of the best places in the country to live and work with an incredible 134% increase in employment in the last ten years!
https://t.co/jrDPEPqB53
Today the Queen said, "Proposals on railway reform will be brought forward." This means we will publish the Williams Review White Paper; the first comprehensive review of the railway in a generation. The main objective? A system with passengers at heart where trains run on time!
Smart Tickets🎫(i.e. electronic tickets on your phone) mean quicker, more convenient journeys. I want these as standard across the UK, so my colleague @chhcalling has written to rail operators to request smart ticketing to improve journeys for passengers https://t.co/tkadRI1Qin
Having organised the biggest repatriation in peacetime history by constructing a completely new & temporary Matterhorn Airline, I'm determined that if a travel company goes bust in future, we should be able to fly THEIR fleet to rescue stranded Brits.
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