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A Hitchin climbing club - based in Bedford Road's Priory School - has reopened after more than doubling the size of its climbing wall.

But they lost two seats – including Hitchin South, which had been held by executive member for growth, infrastructure, planning and the economy Cllr Derrick Ashley. Conservatives Michael Muir (Baldock and Letchworth East), David Barnard (Hitchin Rural) and Richard Thake (Knebworth and Codicote) all kept their seats. Conservative cabinet member Cllr Terry Hone (Letchworth South), executive member for community safety and waste management was also returned to County Hall. And so was Fiona Hill (Royston East and Ermine) – whose result was the last in the county to be declared, just after 1...

Liberal Democrat Steve Jarvis kept hold of the Royston West and Rural division. And it was fellow Lib Dem Paul Clark who took the Hitchin South seat that had been held by Cllr Ashley – by a margin of  just 42 votes. Meanwhile the Conservatives have retained their control of Hertfordshire County Council – but lost their leader in an election shock when Cllr David Williams lost his Harpenden seat to Lib Dem Paul De Kort. All 78 seats on the county council were up for grabs. The Conservatives won 46 seats – which is three fewer than they held before, but still 14 more than the other parti...

She explained how the three hospital model being proposed broadly retains the existing services. “A substantial new build at Watford would bring fantastic opportunities to improve services. In our new facilities we are hoping to have significantly more single bed impatient rooms. We are looking at 75 to 80 per cent of all in-patient accommodation in single rooms. “St Albans will be our main surgical and cancer care site. It already is the site where we do a lot of planned surgery and we want to develop and enhance that service offer at St Albans. One of the key things we want to do at St ...

By Deborah Price Local Democracy Reporter - Hertfordshire What a redeveloped Watford General Hospital could look like. Credit: West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Plans for the rebuilding of Watford General Hospital and redevelopment of two other hospitals on existing sites have been backed by a county council watchdog group. At a meeting of the West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust health infrastructure plan topic group on Monday, the group discussed the trust's preferred option to spend the majority of govern...