Review of the year: November to December
4:30pm Thursday 1st January 2009
THE Review revealed sensational plans by local GPs to re-open Harpenden’s Red House Hospital, controversially closed a year before in the teeth of massive opposition. The Sun Lane site needs work costing £250,000 but GP Dylan Phillips said he was confident local support would propel the project towards reality. He said: “A phoenix can rise from the ashes. It’s taken a while to get to this stage but the next steps should follow a lot quicker. The hospital holds a lot of value for local people – we need the help and support of local people now.”
Comments (0)Review of the Year: September to October
1:30pm Thursday 1st January 2009
BY early September the collapsing economy had unleashed a flood of home repossessions engulfing the St Albans district. The Review revealed how no fewer than 142 homes in the district had been seized by building societies in the first six month of the year, with the rate accelerating as the headlines became ever more doom-laden. Lesley Gordon of St Albans Citizens Advice Bureau said: “The pressure is great, especially as mortgage costs go up.” MP Anne Main warned: “St Albans has lots of young people who may lose their homes. This causes other problems and puts strain on relationships.”
Review of the year: July to August
9:20am Thursday 1st January 2009
ON July 31, the Review revealed how a Welwyn Garden City man had made an apparently miraculous recovery from a stroke in just two days.
Review of the year: May to June
3:10pm Wednesday 31st December 2008
ON May 7, the ruling Lib Dem group defied the national surge in Tory support to tighten its grip on St Albans District Council by gaining one seat overall in a local election. Relieved council leader Robert Donald told the Review: “Now we have the majority we will be able to start implementing our manifesto.” Labour did not win a single seat, taking a mere 12.6 per cent of the vote.
Review of the Year: March to April
12:00pm Wednesday 31st December 2008
ON March 12, the Review asked its readers whether they wanted a large new Tesco supermarket in the London Road area of St Albans.
Review of the year: January to February
10:50am Wednesday 31st December 2008
A STORM erupted over St Albans MP Anne Main's New Year trip to Bangladesh, after it emerged it had been paid for by a political party engulfed in allegations of corruption.
Confidence boosting cosmetic surgery for mastectomy patients
10:21am Wednesday 26th November 2008
BREAST removal can often leave women feeling stripped of their feminity.
Meet the Hertfordshire Air Ambulance crew
10:01am Wednesday 26th November 2008
THE first Air Ambulance in Hertfordshire took to the skies this month after a tremendous fundraising effort from residents across the county. Reporter Michael Pickard went to meet the team that could save your life.
'Enough is enough' say Hertfordshire firefighters
3:40pm Thursday 13th November 2008
Nearly 1,000 firefighters from across the county travelled to Westminster yesterday to lobby parliament for better training, safety and staffing after a grim report revealed a sharp increase in on-duty deaths. Reporter Emma Clark joined Hertfordshire firefighters in London for the action day.
Harpenden group helping children in Africa
12:15pm Monday 10th November 2008
EDUCATION in third world countries is, so often, a ladder out of deprivation. Reporter Alex Barham met a devoted aid worker from Harpenden who is helping children out of the poverty trap by giving them the opportunity to go to school.
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