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  • Missing 20-year-old woman from South Oxhey found

    Police say they have found the 20-year-old woman they were searching for in South Oxhey. Rita Allison of Muirfield Road went missing from her home around midnight but was found later in the day. They said there had been concerns for her welfare

  • Watford observed - stories from February past

    A drama which turned out to be a comedy came to the Redding Avenue, Bushey, home of a Mr John Geoter on Tuesday, when members of the police force, the fire brigade and a bomb disposal unit went to investigate a hole he had dug in his back garden.

  • Hertsmere mayor to present prizes at annual piano concert

    Students of Radlett piano teacher, Rena Delaney, will be holding an annual piano concert. The concert will take place at the Sime Hall Music School, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls on Sunday, March 8 at 2pm. The Mayor Carey Keates &

  • Fan waxes lyrical over famous Hornets victory

    Those interested in football will know that last weekend [February 14 and 15] was F.A.Cup weekend and while this year Watford may no longer be in the competition, back in February 1970, there was much celebrating as the Hornets beat Liverpool 1-0 to

  • Dementia Friends to hold awareness sessions in Bushey

    New "Dementia Friends" will be recruited during an hour-long awareness session in Bushey. The Alzheimer's Society Dementia Friends programme, an initiative launched in February 2013, aims to help people understand what it might be like to live

  • 'Anyone who kicks a football around can play footgolf'

    A new footgolf course will open in Watford this month and the man driving the sport believes it is thriving because of its simplicity. Footgolf follows the same principle as golf but is played with a football and the player’s leg rather than a

  • Looking back: March 1, 1957

    Watford supporters of Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement plan to contest at least one seat in the next Borough elections. A “Watford Observer” reporter was told this by Mr R.F. Webb, secretary of Union’s branch, at the close of Thursday’s meeting in

  • Ighalo expected to return against Fulham

    Slavisa Jokanovic expects in-form striker Odion Ighalo to be fit for Tuesday’s match with Fulham after he missed yesterday’s 3-2 win at Leeds United with a hamstring injury. Ighalo, who has scored 14 goals in his last ten league games, was left