Harry Mortimer News Today

An Adver reader has mourned the loss of The Body Shop as the company collapsed into administration and shops shut around the country.

Luke Mortimer raised thousands of pounds for LimbPower and Children in Need after reaching the summit of Embsay Crag in North Yorkshire

Plans to provide a memorial for armed service personnel from Hertsmere have received support.

Hertsmere Borough Council unveiled proposals for a secondary school at Bushey Country Club earlier this year Plans to build Hertfordshire’s biggest secondary school on the site of a former country club and golf course have reportedly been dropped. According to the Bushey Conservatives, Hertfordshire County Council has decided not to take up the opportunity of building a school at Bushey Country Club. At a meeting organised by Hertsmere Borough Council earlier this year, residents were ...

Harry Mortimer, a councillor in Bushey, pictured at the location where a mast could be built. Shown on the right is a mast in Southampton contructed by the same applicants as in Bushey A petition has been launched to stop a 5G mast being installed in a residential neighbourhood. Hertsmere Borough Council has been notified of a plan to put in a mast in Bushey which would be 18 metres high. The parent company of mobile network Three has proposed to put the past on a corner of the junction o...

Plans to build a 5G phone mast that were heavily criticised by neighbours have not been given approval by a council.  An application had been submitted to Hertsmere Borough Council to build the mast at the junction of James Close and Aldenham Road in Bushey to provide improved network coverage for Vodafone in the area. The site is currently host to a 15-metre-high street lamp – under the proposals this would have been replaced with a 17.5-metre phone mast as well as three cabinets. ...

Dr William Donald Hoskins MBE who has died aged 88 Tributes have been paid to a prominent musician from Abertillery who died has died aged 88. Dr William Donald Hoskins MBE was born in the Abertillery area in June 1932, the son of William and Olive Hoskins. He was delivered by the local midwife Granny Poore, who was paid two shilllings and sixpence (12.5p today). He attended nursery school on the mountain side near his home and accompanied his Aunt Annie Dowden to the Methodist Chapel eve...