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On Saturday 2 April we launched the Easter Trail in Bishop’s Stortford, and arranged for the Easter bunny to visit to help us. We had a market stall outside Waterstones in South Street for the day and gave out 200 of our brand new Discover Stortford shopping bags, as well as launching the East...

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This summer Bishop’s Stortford Town Council has organised some fun family friendly events. From learning circus skills, enjoying a film in at the outdoor cinema to watching a theatre production outside, you can do it all! Whilst in town enjoying the entertainment, pop into the town centre and ...

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We are very proud to have sponsored the Christmas Tree in Market Square this year. The Town Council has supplied the tree and we are delighted to be working with them to bring some festive cheer to the town centre. To celebrate we thought we run a little competition on our Instagram page. You can......

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Back for 2020, is the Christmas Window Competition organised by local Isabel Hospice fundraiser Renee Friend. Whilst we are limited in many Christmas activities right now, one thing we can do is create beautiful shop windows for all to enjoy this festive season.   How to enter Any high street b...

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It’s hard to put on events as we would wish right now, but we have found a great one for the children this summer which we have brought to Bishop’s Stortford. You’ll find 10 monsters have arrived in shop windows across the town. Each one has a QR code on it, scan it and find...

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As we’re spending a lot more time indoors at the moment we thought we’d give you something to entertain the children this week in the Bishop’s Stortford Independent. Don’t forget to pick up your copy when you are out buying your essentials to keep up to date with all the loca...

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We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 Nutcracker Trail is seven year old Teodora Pop from Bishop’s Stortford. The winner was chosen at random from the hundreds of entries by BID Chair Karen Burton. Teodora successfully found all ten nutcrackers which were positioned around the to...

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This Christmas season ten beautiful wooden nutcrackers have come to visit Bishop’s Stortford. They arrived on 21 November, and will be here until 31 December. You will find them positioned all around the town centre. Your task is to locate each one and find out their names. One  lucky winner will...

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Business Name: Ace Of Lanes Location: 4 Anchor Street, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3BP When founded: December 1st 2018 (8 weeks old) How many staff do you employ: 35/40 Describe your business in 50 words: Ace of Lanes speaks for itself. An independent family owned business from Mother and Daughter d...