Here are the five people and places making the news in south west Hertfordshire on March 3.

1. A jury has heard the closing speeches from the prosecution and defence in the Aqeel Khan murder trial.

2. Political pressure group WebRoots Democracy said residents should be able to vote in the next Watford mayoral elections online.

3. Herts County Council has admitted in an official council paper that older people could be isolated from their communities by the proposed bus cuts.

4. Watford great grandmother Ellen Hetherington has celebrated her 101st birthday.

5. A number of coins of a Turkish origin were stolen during a burglary at a property in College Road, Abbots Langley last week.