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  • Music charts technical problem

    We are having a few technical issues with our music charts this week, as you can probably see. Not quite sure what the issue is yet but we are investigating. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

  • Miss Frank prove they've still got the X Factor at Asda

    Screams of delight could be heard across a Garston supermarket today as X Factor rejects Miss Frank took to the floor. Graziella Affinita, Shaniece Davis and Shar Alexandra, who make up the three-piece group Miss Frank, were booted out of the

  • Awesome Arcane Roots

    Review: Arcane Roots, The Horns, Hempstead Road, Monday, October 19 ****** Nothing less than a stunned silence greeted Monday’s remarkable Horns debut by little-known three-piece Arcane Roots – a response that had nothing whatsoever to do with a disappointingly

  • An unlikely seven points

    Not many people would have expected us to get seven points out of the three games last week, particularly after two home defeats immediately before those games. And despite the win against Middlesbrough, it's likely that even fewer would have expected

  • Mayor gives Monster reception to new youth shelter

    Children, parents and even the town’s mayor were on hand this week to celebrate the official unveiling on a new youth shelter. The £10,000 shelter, including a solar powered radio and wireless MP3 player, was donated to the borough council

  • Missing cat re-united with owner

    A missing cat who narrowly avoided death in road accident has been reunited with her owner after her picture was printed in the Watford Free newspaper. The cat, now known to be called Fizz, was found a whisker away from death in Leggatts Rise

  • Workers in pink for charity

    Staff at a Watford packaging firm “thought pink” and wore pink today as they raised money for a breast cancer charity. Employees at ASP Packaging Limited, in Caxton Way, donned, amongst other garish outfits, pink pants and bras – and that was

  • Job boost as new store set to open in Watford

    Forty much-needed jobs will be created when a new hardware store opens in The Harlequin shopping centre in December. Swedish-based Clas Ohlson is to open its latest branch in the location previously occupied by Zavvi and Virgin Megastore.

  • Heidar Helguson fit to return for Hornets at West Brom

    Watford will welcome back Heidar Helguson for tomorrow's trip to promotion-chasing West Bromwich Albion. The striker, who scored 64 goals for the Hornets in his first five-and-a-half year spell in Hertfordshire, marked his return to the club

  • It was trees and fields back then

    Reader Mike Toll emailed Nostalgia with his memories of Oxhey Wood. Mr Toll, from Watford, said: “I left London in 1949 to live on the Oxhey estate. “The estate wasn’t a bit like the Angel, Islington. It was mostly trees, fields, woods and

  • Home Guard picture prompts memories

    A photograph of the West Herts Home Guard prompted an email from Wally Instrall, from Leicestershire. Mr Instrall said: “With regard to the photo of the West Herts Home Guard I can recognise only two of the people. “In the centre of the fourth rank

  • Searching for RAF Mosquito pilot

    A letter from Surrey has been sent to Nostalgia, regarding an RAF airman. Colin Lee, from South Croydon, wrote: “I would like to make contact with family, friends or anyone who remembers Flying Officer Owen Edward Parry Newcater. “He flew

  • Celebrating six decades of opera

    Cassio Operatic Society members in a production of The Music Man in 1972. Cassio Operatic Society is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with a production of The Music Man at Watford Palace Theatre, which will run from Sunday,

  • X-Factor stars Miss Frank to perform at ASDA

    Shoppers perusing the aisles of a Garston supermarket this afternoon will have a chance to get up close and personal with three former X-Factor contestants. Three-piece girl group Miss Frank, who were booted off the show on Sunday, will be

  • "Fantastic" new tram servive for Watford

    TRANSPORT minister Lord Adonis came to St Albans Abbey station this morning to announce an innovative project to convert the Abbey Flyer branch railway into a tram link. If all goes to plan, two-carriage trams will be taking passengers along the six-and

  • Familiar faces at the Leathersellers Arms

    The Leathersellers Arms once stood in Watford High Street and it was in this photograph that Brian West spotted his uncle. He wrote: “Regarding the photograph of group outside The Leathersellers Arms, I’m pretty certain the man seated, five

  • Police probe town centre theft

    Police are investigating after the theft of a young woman's mobile phone and passport in Watford town centre. The 19-year-old woman was allegedly targeted at about midnight on Saturday, October 17, in an alleyway between the Area nightclub

  • Hygiene had not been thought of then

    Memories of Chater School, published in recent editions of Nostalgia, prompted an email from Doreen Povey. Mrs Povey, née Dow, said: “In 1934 I started at Chater School as a five-year-old. “The class teacher was Miss Hutchinson whose

  • Men hurt in Aldenham crash

    Three men were taken to hospital yesterday evening after a car crash near Aldenham. The men were injured when two cars collided in Butterfly Lane, at around 6.50pm. One man had to be cut from the wreckage of one of the vehicles by firefighters

  • Abbey Flyer to become a tram

    THE Abbey Flyer line, which links Watford Junction with St Albans Abbey, is to be converted from a branch railway into a tram system, the Secretary of State for Transport Andrew Adonis will announce this morning. The Department of Transport