SARACENS boss Alan Gaffney has made several changes to the starting line-up for the visit of Sale Sharks on Sunday (3pm kick-off). Andy Farrell comes back into the side at inside-centre with Kevin Sorrell moving back to 13. Tevita Vaikona is preferred
ALL BLACK lock Chris Jack is just one of several new players Saracens are chasing ahead of next season, director of rugby Alan Gaffney has confirmed. In a week which has seen Thomas Castaignede and Ben Johnston confirm their departures from the club
SATURDAY's depressing home defeat to Everton will not live long in the memory of many connected with Watford but the game represented quite a turnaround for Tamas Priskin. Jeered by some sections of the crowd after a half-hearted showing against Accrington
CLARKE CARLISLE is to join Watford's arch rivals Luton Town on a month's loan. The defender, signed from Queens Park Rangers for £100,000 in 2005, has only recently returned to Reserve team action following ten months out with a thigh problem, and
BEN FOSTER will undergo a fitness test today (Friday) on the dead leg that kept him out of the Everton game last week. The England keeper sustained the injury in the 1-1 draw with Wigan Athletic but manager Aidy Boothroyd remained hopeful he would
AIDY BOOTHROYD insists he will not bow to pressure from some fans and drop Gavin Mahon tomorrow (Saturday). The under-fire captain was booed when the team line-ups were read out prior to kick-off against Everton and many fans would like to see him
More pupils in the county than ever before have won a place at of one their three preferred secondary schools, according to the county council. Anxious parents and carers received confirmation of school places either by letter or email on Thursday
HUNDREDS of angry residents fed up with living in the shadows of giant electricity pylons have signed a petition demanding their removal. A row of huge metal pylons snake through otherwise quiet residential roads in Bushey Heath, carrying wires, which
Maple Cross and Mill End * Sub-division of existing dwelling into two dwellings, internal alterations conversion of garage to habitable accommodation and changes top fenestration detail at 8 Longmore Close, Maple Cross, for Mark Shephard (06/2271/FUL
Callowland * Erection of new front porch at 22 St Georges Road, Watford, for M and M Kearney (07/00154/FUL). * To determine whether prior approval is required for the siting and appearance of a 12.4m high dual purpose telecommunications lamppost, replacing
HEALTH minister Andy Burnham made a whistle-stop tour of Watford General Hospital yesterday (Thursday), to see the site of the future health campus. Mr Burnham, MP for Leigh, was taken to the rooftop of the Princess Michael of Kent building and shown
HUNDREDS of local motorists who have been caught up in the contaminated fuel scandal will learn the results of Trading Standards tests later today (Friday). Tests have been carried out on fuel in a storage depot in Essex which supplies supermarket giants
FEARS have been raised about the long term future of a club which serves the pensioners of South Oxhey. The Clitheroe Club is a popular meeting place for many elderly people in South Oxhey and hosts regular coffee mornings and bingo sessions. However
