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  • Box Cleva visted by former world boxing champion John Conteh

    Young people taking part in a boxing skills programme got to meet a legend of the sport on Wednesday as former world champion John Conteh was the guest of honour at their awards ceremony. The ceremony, at Leavesden Green Community Hub, was held

  • Watford observed - stories from Novembers past

    Wanted. Seven young ladies willing to be sawn in half. We guarantee to put them back together again. This is the appeal Frank Godfrey, manager of Watford’s Palace Theatre, is making this week. He wants the girls, one for each performance, to take

  • Stories for November nights

    Do No Harm by Henry Marsh, Wiedenfeld and Nicholson (Orion), £8.99 This is almost a series of short stories in that Henry Marsh, a senior consultant neurologist at St George’s Hospital in London, takes a particular neurological complaint and then

  • The war to end all wars

    Despite being dead since 1946, HG Wells will finally have a say on how The War of the Worlds has impacted the globe since it was published in 1897. Conducted by Radlett resident Jeff Wayne, The War of the Worlds Final Arena Tour will see the celebrated

  • Two surgeries in Bushey to build brand new medical centre

    Two surgeries in Bushey are set to build a brand new medical centre. Attenborough Surgery and Manor View Surgery in London Road were granted planning permission by Hertsmere Borough Council last week to build a new centre on the south side of London

  • Macmillan Fund Raising Coffee Morning

    For the second year running Nicola Beels and Lizzie Roberts have run a November coffee morning for family and friends to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. They didn't think that they would be able to top last years total of almost £700 but they

  • On this date in Watford FC history

    Wednesday, November 23, 1983 Watford entertained Sparta Prague at Vicarage Road in the first leg of a UEFA Cup third round tie. In icy conditions, the Hornets had an early goal disallowed after Ian Richardson's effort was adjudged by the West

  • November 23, 1973

    It was just after lunch on Tuesday when a crowd of people gathered in a copse to watch a short fat man shoot down some pigeons from a roof. There were no cries of "shame, shame". Instead, television cameramen from the BBC made a "take" and that