Colour reconnection in Herwig

As the LHC's quick step-up in luminosity necessarily comes with increasing pile-up activity accompanying every event of interest, the Monte Carlo event generators have to come up with proper models of soft inclusive hadron collisions. Moreover, an irreducible background of hadronic activity, the underlying event, is adherent to the single hard hadron collisions themselves. We report on colour reconnection in Herwig, which provides improvements in these two fields of current research.