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Welcome to a special section of this website focussing exclusively on Hatfield and its surrounding villages. It is supported by a team of community correspondents proud of Hatfield's heritage and determined to bring you special reports, interviews, features, letters, pictures and videos that keep you fully informed of the major issues happening in the town and nearby.

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Editorial:

Dear All,

First the good news; your Hatfield Review on-line 'paper is gaining more viewers by the week. We have now doubled our readership since November - which is a magnificent feat. Please help us to keep spreading the word by telling everyone about us. We exist to promote Hatfield and report on the matters that concern us; the matters that otherwise would not get heard. We also ask the probing questions that local government would rather not answer, and actively campaign for improvements to our historic town - as we are doing right now about our neglected town centre.

So, if you have an issue you'd like us to pursue, please email us on news@hatfieldnews.net

The New Year has started busily for us. We are supporting Cllrs Lynne Sparks and Dean Archer in their efforts to win a share of £1million from the Portas Pilot challenge to improve our tired market place by creating a new vibrant market to encourage shoppers from far and wide to visit.

A group of University film students and local secondary school pupils are also helping Lynne and Dean with their bid. All are invited to contribute.

The Hatfield Review has also attracted the attention of some local student journalists wanting to write for us. In fact anyone can; we are a community 'paper which wants to give you all a platform to voice your opinions, provide news items, photographs or anything of interest associated within our Review Region.

We are also happy to report, further to our campaign, that Lorraine Bates's Bon Appetit burger bar business is now happily co-existing with the new Costa coffee restaurant which is set within the NEXT superstore at the Oldings Retail Park. This is the sort of thing we can achieve. Please let us know if anybody else needs our support.

The new Borough Council budget is to be released soon, and we shall be looking to see what investment, if any, will be coming Hatfield's way.

Finally, there is shortly to be a joint announcement about the re-opening of Angerland Common fields - which the University closed almost eight years ago.

Local pressure has encouraged the Borough Council and University to address this matter. The upshot should see the allocating of some ground for Hatfield Town FC to build a stadium. Your Hatfield Review will be monitoring the situation closely.

John Hawkins, Community Editor

Neighbourhood Watch:

Police control centre hit by attempted metal theft

10:07am Saturday 11th February 2012

HERTFORDSHIRE Constabulary’s control room was hit by communications disruption after an attempted metal theft on.........

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New Hertfordshire taskforce launched to target metal theft

8:46pm Monday 30th January 2012

JANUARY 9th saw the launch of a new dedicated taskforce......

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News:

Hatfield In The Market For Funding: Lynne Sparks A Debate

7:20pm Wednesday 22nd February 2012

A group of passionate Hatfield folk took up Cllr Lynne Sparks' invitation last night, to help with an entry into the £1million 'Portas Pilot' competition...

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Tesco in WGC: The Pictures That Show Why It Was A Good Idea

12:14am Wednesday 22nd February 2012

URBAN Exploration came to WGC recently as the derelict former Shredded Wheat factory was entered by....

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The Beauty In The Wheelchair

8:08pm Monday 20th February 2012

Uni student, Patricia Drgonova, introduces another Hatfield community star:

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Letters:

Leaflet delivery needed for new waste sites consultation

2:43pm Saturday 11th February 2012

MANY thanks for all the effort made to object to Veolia's Planning Application, to deliver leaflets, and to collect objections.

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