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Thousands turn out for soldiers' parade

2:03pm Wednesday 11th March 2009 in


Thousands of people filled Watford High Street this lunchtime to cheer more than 200 soldiers as they marched through the town centre.

Residents lined the streets, stood in shops and hung out of windows to see members of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, take part in the Freedom of the Borough parade.

And unlike the protests in Luton yesterday, there were no incidents or any disruption.

Comments(17)

Watfordboy1 says...
2:23pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Well done boys! Excellent parade you deserve it. Thankfully no scum to disrupt the proceedings!

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Muddy says...
2:54pm Wed 11 Mar 09

A great day for the soldiers
and the people of Watford.
Well done everyone

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Reader (R) says...
2:55pm Wed 11 Mar 09

I'm proud to be british, well done lads.

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gusgreen says...
3:07pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Great turnout for a great parade.
I hope the troops in the parade enjoyed their day and felt the genuine feeling of warmth,respect and pride in them as shown by the people of Watford.They deserved it all!Well done.

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FrankieB says...
3:13pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Where's the piccy's? We wanna see our boys! Come on....!!

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WWW says...
3:39pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Well done Watford !!! Once again we showed Luton how it SHOULD be done ! I am proud to be a Watfordian !!!

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ReadersWives says...
3:39pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Makes you proud.


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Chris the Vic says...
3:53pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Glad to see the soldiers got the right sort of welcome from the people of Watford.

Shame the stupid minority in Luton got so much publicity and were allowed to protest. I note those arrested were objecting to the protesters which sums up life in Brown's Britain. The PM well he was dissappointed in the protesters. In his place the word ashamed would be more correct

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Joyce Pollard says...
4:04pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Now that's how it's done and hopefully Watford's parade will get as much (if not more) TV and news coverage as yesterday's events in Luton. Don't give these idiots the oxygen of publicity.

So proud of the Poachers!

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enlightened one says...
4:24pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Watford 1 Scum o

Well Done !

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makkag says...
4:30pm Wed 11 Mar 09

i had to work so could not attend .. looks like things went a little better than yesterday .. thank god .. these boys do a thankless task so people can have the right to free speech .. I would like to have seen the protesters doing something similar in an islamic/fundimentili
st country ... then they may have realised exactly the value of these troops when they steped in to protect them !

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Johnjones1959 says...
5:10pm Wed 11 Mar 09

The place for protest is outside parliament against those who sent the lads on these missions, irrespective of your views, it should not be against these brave soldiers who lay down their lives for everyone in this country, yes even those who protested, where would they be if GB was ever to be attacked, probably on the first flight out, whereas these guys would be at the front, keep up the good work lads, you're the worlds best not just the UK.

Although I have to accept that everyone has a right to protest etc, I would like to know why the police never removed the offensive placards, let alone the protesters, because surely to show such offensive banners is incitement, which in this instance is an offence, Herts Police 1 Beds Police 0

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Wilkinson says...
6:04pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Watford- putting the Great back into Britain!

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BELGIAN HORNET says...
6:09pm Wed 11 Mar 09

To everyone in Watford who turned out to support the Royal Anglians, a big thank you. To the Luton minority - this is how we treat hero's - no weirdo's in sight.

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proud retired soldier says...
6:42pm Wed 11 Mar 09

I am a retired Royal Anglian who would like to say well done to the people of Watford for their tremendous support to the Poachers, it makes it all worth while, well done to you all

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crapman says...
7:21pm Wed 11 Mar 09

todays parade through the town was absolutly fantastic to watch,watching the precision of those guys and listening to the band,brought a lump to my throat,,and a fantastic reception was given to them from the people of watford,and those who all travelled here,,,,i am so pleased that we dont have that sort of scum that they have in luton...all of us in watford should all be feeling very proud of our selfs tonight

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RSIAW says...
7:30pm Wed 11 Mar 09

Made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck as they went past and even Dotty did a good job thanking them.Makes you proud of Watford and proud of Britain.

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