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Kenny Arnold, owner of Kenny Arnold Hairdressing, is also founder of Stevenage People for People – a community group which helps support people who are struggling. He and his team of volunteers have supported food banks, day centres, schools and individuals.
Former MP for Hitchin and Stevenage Shirley Williams was made Baroness Williams of Crosby in 1993. She is pictured here after being awarded the Companies of Honour for services of political and public life
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The late Baroness Shirley Williams, daughter of famous memoirist Vera Brittain, served as MP for Hitchin from 1964 to 1974 and for Stevenage and Hertford from 1974 to 1979. She later became a life peeress and served as President of Stevenage Liberal Democrats.
Violence against a person - which may include assault, malicious communications or a public order - dropped from 682 reports to 593.
Thefts were also less common, with 130 reports this year compared to the 153 in 2019/20 and reported criminal damage incidents also fell, from 254 to 177 in the same period.
And reported domestic abuse crimes in North Herts fell by 14 per cent in 2020/21.
The one category which increased over the past year was drug-related crime, which rose from 89 reported cases to 91.
Sgt Clarke concluded: COVID-19 and lockdowns has had a significant impact on the number of crimes reported in the Hitchin urban area.
Sgt Clarke also praised the number of people signing up to the extremely effective local OWL and neighbourhood watch schemes - with Hitchin having 4,550 members or roughly a quarter of the town s households.
Children are participating in the Ron s Plot gardening project in Hitchin
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A social and therapeutic gardening project at the heart of a Hitchin community has received funding to continue its work helping the town s green-fingered young residents. Ron s Plot , which is based at Burford Way allotments and run by Getting Rooted CIC, received £1,070 from North Herts District Council s Hitchin Committee.
The project aims to bring together residents, community groups and businesses from the local area to share information and advice on sustainable gardening.
The funding will go towards training for practitioners to get children and young people engaged in outdoor learning. These online courses will be run by the Permaculture Foundation - which works to make agricultural ecosystems sustainable - and will be accessible to schools, community groups and home education networks.
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