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New homes for village birds
5:26pm Sunday 16th March 2008
Birds flocking to Kings Langley will find some ready-made homes, after the parish council decided to attract more wildlife to the village.

Bright ideas for recycling centre
12:28pm Thursday 13th March 2008
The bright ideas of school children from Rickmansworth inspired a local artist to create a number of different recycling characters for a 60 metre banner.

Now the kids can go wild
1:20pm Wednesday 12th March 2008
Youngsters at Tanners Wood JMI School now have the opportunity to learn in the great outdoors, with the addition of a brand new Wildlife Area in a disused section of the school grounds.

Anger over planned dump closureAnger over planned dump closure
1:20pm Sun 9 Mar 08
The proposed closure of a recycling depot in Watford attracted further criticism this morning, this time from residents queuing to use the site.
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Going green for Hertsmere
7:47am Saturday 8th March 2008
A keen environmentalist, novelist, web designer, and member of Hindu temple Bhaktivedanta Manor, has been selected as the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Hertsmere.
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Green campaign is 'just perfect'
10:14am Friday 7th March 2008
A successful campaign by residents in Croxley Green to gain protected village green status for a proposed development site has been praised by a national campaign group.

Council dump set to close
5:28pm Thursday 6th March 2008
A waste disposal site in Watford that collected more than 5,000 tonnes of rubbish in 2006/07 is earmarked for closure.
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Recycled stationery helps orphan
11:46am Tuesday 4th March 2008
Budding entrepreneurs at a Garston school have raised more than £200 to support a Cambodian orphan, by selling environmentally friendly stationery.

Trust volunteer honoured Trust volunteer honoured
8:00am Tue 4 Mar 08
A top award from the UK's leading woodland conservation charity has been presented to Janet Anders of Chorleywood who for the past 14 years has organised weekly volunteer work parties in Philipshill Wood for the Woodland Trust.

Ranger will make park friendlier
3:32pm Tuesday 26th February 2008
Leavesden Country Park will become a friendlier place when a park ranger starts work in April or May, councillors have said.

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