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Finding White Space in the Modern Soft Drinks Landscape

2 weeks ago | euromonitor.com | Nik Allen

As buyers resolutely choose wellness as a personal priority, mindful consumption is driving a consumer path to premiumisation in food and beverages. Functional attributes aligned with this healthful trend are reaping the benefits and the newly invigorated better for you (BFY) carbonated beverage segment arguably owes its rise to the American fascination with gut health.
GBH CHARGE: Garston teen arrested after man stabbed in Watford town centre

Sep 10, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

A man has been charged and remanded into custody following an incident of grievous bodily harm (GBH) in Watford. Police were called just before 10.20pm on Tuesday, July 23, to reports of an assault in Maeme’s on Clarendon Road, Watford. It is reported that two people entered the shop with knives and assaulted a man. The victim, a man aged in his 20s, suffered a stab wound. Officers attended and he was taken to hospital for treatment.
HORSE POWER: Radlett sanctuary boosted by £20,000 lottery donation

Sep 2, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

A Radlett-based animal sanctuary that provides a home for abandoned horses has received a £20,000 donation. Cecil’s Horse Sanctuary, which is based in Radlett and has locations across Beds, Herts and Bucks, was given the donation as part of the People’s Postcode Lottery’s (PPL) weekly Millionaire Street prize.
FLY TIPPING: Hunton Bridge waste removal company fined over incident

Sep 2, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

A company based in Hunton Bridge has been prosecuted for fly tipping. Eco Clear Waste Management (ECWM) pleaded guilty at St Albans Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, July 31, to the unauthorised deposit of controlled waste in Dodds Lane, Hemel Hempstead. The offence took place in September 2023. ECWM was ordered to pay £13,475, which consisted of a £10,000 fine, £1,159 costs, £2,000 victim surcharge and compensation of £316.
SUPER SETS: Maple Cross coaches raise more than £9,000 with 24-hour tennis marathon

Jul 28, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

A pair of local tennis coaches recently staged a 24-hour tennis marathon during which the players only put down their racquets for food and trips to the bathroom. Coaches Jon Wildman and Mark Collett from non-profit club GetSet4Tennis played their first match at their Maple Cross site on Saturday, June 29, and didn’t stop until the same time on Sunday.
FIGHT GOES ON: Campaigners lodge appeal against Radlett freight terminal verdict

Jul 27, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

The fight against the proposed rail freight terminal at the former Radlett airfield is set to continue. Campaigners have now lodged an appeal into a High Court decision to reject their claim that the sale of the land to developers was unlawful. Save St Albans: Fight the Freight claim the land should not have been sold by Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) because it was designated as open space that cannot be developed.
LITTLE LION: Dave the cat shows support for England from his new Berkhamsted home

Jul 5, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

A former stray cat adopted by the 2022 England football team in Qatar is once again lending his support to the team from his new home in Berkhamsted. Dave first made headlines when he charmed the England team’s players during the World Cup two years ago, when they were staying in the small Qatari town of Al Wakrah. The cat became so popular with the squad, particularly with defenders Kyle Walker and John Stones, that the team then arranged for Dave to be brought to England.
CONVICTED: Bushey woman found guilty of careless driving in fatal crash

Jun 26, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

A woman has been convicted of careless driving after a motorbike rider was killed when he crashed into the back of her slow-moving car. But Samantha Wilson, 27, of Belle Vue Lane, Bushey, was cleared today (Wednesday, June 26) by a jury at St Albans Crown Court of the more serious charge of causing the death of Adam Richardson by careless driving.
How can Watford FC earn promotion from the Championship next season?

Jun 25, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

Many football fans and analysts believe the Championship is the most competitive league in England, and this opinion definitely carries weight in our view. Once you look beyond the supposed “evenness” of many other leagues, you quickly realise that there’s a crystallisation of big-spending teams who are constantly sitting at the top.
JAILED: Three members of drugs gang operating in Hemel Hempstead sentenced

Jun 10, 2024 | mynewsmag.co.uk | Nik Allen

Three members of a county lines gang operating between Luton and Hemel Hempstead were jailed yesterday (Monday, June 10). Timothy Alexander, 32, of Brendon Avenue, Luton, was sentenced to six years and nine months’ imprisonment. Dean Bruton, 22, of no fixed address, was sentenced to four years and 10 months. Ryan Sherry, 20, of Tenby Drive, Luton, was sentenced to two years and seven months.