“The big picture is more important than today’s game alone.” That was a message from John Salomon after Watford Ladies’ first outing at Vicarage Road ended in a 4-1 defeat to Aston Villa on a day when the positives achieved by the club outweighed
Children and adults of all ages had a chance to learn an instrument last weekend at a Watford music school event. More than 200 people attended the event on Sunday, March 22, hosted by Music Gym in support of National Learn to Play Day, and over
Watford Ladies made history by playing at Vicarage Road for the first time this afternoon but the Golden Girls were unable to find a result to match the occasion as they were comfortably beaten 4-1 by Aston Villa Ladies in Women’s Super League 1.
As part of their next performance in the village, the Abbots Langley Players have been working with The Royal Shakespeare Company. Professional director and Royal Shakespeare Company theatre practitioner James Farrell came to Abbots Langley recently
Children from the Gingerbread Club in Bushey enjoyed an early Easter party on Saturday. The youngsters, aged up to five, took part in an Easter egg hunt, got their faces painted and ate their way through a number of cakes donated by Costco, at
Parasailing, water skiing, hot air ballooning and now charging around the US in a dog sled - there's nothing this extreme sport loving 88-year-old great grandmother from north Watford won't try. Adventurous Doreen Alexander, of Berry Avenue, most
The world record for balloon bursting – 14 mins 14.5 secs – was set in Rickmansworth on Saturday [March 18, 1978]. Still slightly out of breath after his steady tread through a sea of balloons, teamleader Ben Edmonds, challenged on behalf of St
Matej Vydra was unable to add to his international tally as a goal from a Watford-born player gave England Under-21s a 1-0 victory over the Czech Republic in a friendly in Prague last night. The Hornets striker, who has four international goals
Roadworks in Rickmansworth High Street are due to finish on Monday. BT have been completing a number of projects in the High Street, including installing a new joint box. Traffic lights have been in operation throughout the works, which started
Every young footballer, irrespective of their ability, dreams of representing their country. Watford’s Odion Ighalo was no different. And on Wednesday night he achieved that dream. The striker started for Nigeria against Uganda. It wasn’t the perfect
The British teaspoon is dead – medicinally. At Tuesday night’s meeting, Watford chemist Mr E.T. Neal pointed out the condsiderable dangers if people continued to use it for measuring medicine. “In the medical world we have had to undergo metrication
Forget tripping the light fantastic - staying in on a Sunday night to watch telly with a boiled egg and soldiers on a tray is where it’s at. The pleasure of Sunday night television has scaled new heights for me recently with the dramatisation of
