The aim of this  section will be to highlight issues affecting my home town Berkhamsted. It will be a mixture of citizen journalism and a resource for people looking for local campaigning organisations.

The decline of an active local press means that a lot of  events go unscrutinised. This gives more power to those in authority to take  decisions affecting people’s lives without being challenged.

This is not healthy for a local community or democracy so expect issues to be raised here that might not get coverage elsewhere or are now ignored by official media.

Eventually if I  can  grapple with all the possibities of  new technology I would like this pcategoty to become  more of an inter active forum for local debate.

In the meantime watch this space.