More than £8,000 was raised by an memory walk held in Cassiobury Park. Councillor Keith Crout, chairman of Watford Borough Council, told tonight's council meeting that the walk held on Sunday, September 20 raised £8,500 for the Alzheimer's
A quiz night held in honour of the chairman of Watford Borough Council raised £900. Eighteen teams competed during the event held on Friday, October 16 at Watford Colosseum and the money will go towards Councillor Keith Crout's nominated charities the
The vocal talents of the Kings Langley Community Choir are to be recorded by the BBC this evening as part of a nationwide project. About 50 members of the community choir will sing Handel’s famous “Hallelujah Chorus”, for national scheme “Sing
Hornets fan Matt Rowson will sign copies of his new book, Watford – On This Day, tomorrow. The book is a unique history of Watford Football Club, charting its 128-year history in 365 daily accounts. He will be joined by current club
A thief ordered to do 120 hours unpaid work for stealing from a building site must prove he is too unfit to complete his punishment or go to prison. Christopher Bourke, 50, of Gammons Lane, Watford, has provided a number of doctor's notes after
A fire which caused £10,000 of damage to a community centre could have begun from a discarded cigarette according to an expert for the defence in an arson trial. Nicholas Poole is accused of deliberately setting fire to a cupboard in the kitchen
A designer clothing sale will take place to raise money for a charity set up in memory of a loving mother from Oxhey Village. Julia Bayliss, 35, lost her battle against Acute Myeloid Leukaemia in August this year, leaving husband Warren and
Firefighters were called to a blazing skip in Northwood last night. Crews were called to White Hill, near the Mount Vernon Hospital, at bout 11.30pm. The skip, placed outside the offices of a window manufacturer, was quickly brought under control
The Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has won an architectural award for the best mental health design of 2009. The judges commended the way suggestions from service users had influenced the layout and facilities of Oak Unit and Beech
A 34-year-old man has denied GBH after biting his mother-in-law's thumb claiming she and her husband were attacking him at the time. Ashfaq Shah, 34, of Barclay Close, Watford, is standing trial for an allegation of the unlawful wounding of
Saracens' director of rugby Brendan Venter believes the memories from last night's historic win over South Africa will stay with them for life. The Men in Black looked down and out after going 18-3 behind but tries from Ernst Joubert and
Watford Mayor Dorothy Thornhill will face calls to apologise for her “damaging public comments” following the decision to “ban” parents from council-run play sessions at Harwoods Adventure Playground. The motion from Labour councillor Nigel
Ten-year-old Yi Fan is no ordinary boy. At an age when most children are still struggling to get to grips with the three Rs, the Watford schoolboy is studying degree level mathematics and even limbering up for his Grade 7 piano exam. Yi,
Residents in the Watford ward of Stanborough can hear plans for the future of the town at a forthcoming neighbourhood forum. Mayor Dorothy Thornhill will join councillors Keith Crout, Derek Scudder and Andy Wylie at the meeting, which will
Harry the Hornet and coaches from Watford Football Club put pupils at Bovingdon Primary School through their paces as they tested the school’s new multi-use games area. Children from Years 4 and 5 enjoyed sports sessions with Watford FC coaches
A horse left to graze in a woodland area near an electricity substation has disappeared. The brown and white animal was roaming among “Danger of Death” signs on land owned by the national grid near Hillfield Lane. A sign advising the
Children from a Watford primary school learned to “kick bullying into touch” this week during a visit by Saracens and England rugby legend Richard Hill. Wearing green t-shirts sporting the slogan 'Kicking Bullying into Touch', the Year 4
A mother has been cleared of being drunk in charge of her two-year-old daughter after a court accepted her distressed state and a pierced tongue made her sound drunk. The 26-year-old from Watford was taken down to the ground, handcuffed and
Employers are keeping a tight rein on pay, but recruitment freezes are starting to thaw and some of the dramatic changes made to working patterns during the recession are now being eased. Research by the CBI and recruitment experts Harvey Nash
A pub in Kings Langley is taking part in a version of a popular television talent show in order to raise money for charity. The Rose & Crown, in High Street, Kings Langley, is one of 13 Ember Inn pubs across the region involved in an X-Factor
Staff at a Rickmansworth hair salon have shed their clothes and their inhibitions to pose for a “tastefully saucy” charity calendar. Taking their cue from the town’s male shopkeepers, who posed for their own calendar last year, the girls of
A Watford man who insisted it would be “pointless” to slash all four tyres of a police car has been found guilty of criminal damage. Magistrates were shown CCTV of a man bending down next to a police car and moments later the vehicle could
Zombies, ghouls and a vampire in platform shoes all take centre stage in Rickmansworth tonight. 'Dracula Spectacula' will run for three evenings this week at St Joan of Arc School. Performances start at 7pm tonight, and continue tomorrow
Richard Harrington, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Watford, has made an official complaint to Channel 4 after he was featured in a controversial documentary. Mr Harrington, who is honorary chairman of the Conservative Friends
Residents can scrutinise Watford Borough Council's budget plans for 2010/11 at a presentation led by Mayor Dorothy Thornhill. This will be the second year the Mayor has informed residents about the budget and some of the reasons behind the
A metal recycling company that was refused permission to expand the usage of its yard has had its appeal quashed by a Planning Inspector. ASM Recycling, in Railway Terrace, Kings Langley, has been at the centre of numerous planning proposals
A retired district nurse and midwife has celebrated her 100th birthday putting down her longevity to ‘hard work’ while doing a job she loved. Bertha Kilgannan was born in Jersey on November 18, 1909 and moved to Tiverton in Devon as a child
A teenager has been arrested after a man suffered minor injuries during an alleged racial attack in Watford town centre. A man in his 30s from London, was on the top floor of the Charter Place car park where an “altercation” took place between
Watford Mencap has moved its head office to a new building in Rickmansworth High Street. The office is in The Old Town Hall, near the corner of Church Street. Veronica Chamberlain, funding and business development manager, said: “We
A new but expected health warning has been issued about Watford’s “ability to continue as a going concern” by the auditors of their parent company’s annual accounts. The comment has been made by Chantrey Vellacott DFK in their independent auditor
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson has thanked SA Law after the law firm’s annual “Smart Alecs” Quiz Night raised £9,500 for the Willow Foundation, the charity he founded in 1999. SA Law had aimed to smash the previous record they had raised for the
A Royal Navy Sea King helicopter landed in a Croxley Green school yesterday. The helicopter and the crew of three, part of the Royal Navy's 854 Naval Air Squadron, visited Harvey Road School to give students a chance to have a look around the
