Holywell Hill. Herts County Council’s safety engineers have unhelpfully decreed that there doesn’t need to be a sign on the road warning motorists of the pedestrian crossing ahead. Chris White has protested about this – not least because of the accident record and previous promises of a much clear policy about road signs.

He has also reminded Herts Highways that there is an issue about ‘street furniture’ – the needless clutter which distracts drivers coming down the hill and leads to accidents.

Watson’s Walk and London Road lining: the urgent work (due for over a year now) has still not been done – for example painting or repainting Keep Clear sings on various parts of Watson’s Walk. But the contractors have managed to do put down lots of lines in the wrong place. This should have been corrected weeks ago – more of your money wasted by Herts Highways.

Victoria Street: Chris has reminded Herts Highways that the road is starting to collapse near the Alma Road junction.

High Street and Peahen junction phasing: many promises have been made about sorting this out and making sure that the pedestrian lights are not out of phase with the traffic lights a few metres away at the Peahen. No sign of any progress here – possibly another broken promise.