The directors of a Watford community radio station have resigned from the board after facing the prospect of being forced out.

A number of directors, including a Hertfordshire county councillor, at The Vibe 107.6 had been told they were due to be removed at an extraordinary general meeting of station on Wednesday.

However, at the meeting they handed in their resignations and rejected an offer to sit on an advisory board for the station.

The move to jettison the directors came after the sole member of the organisation, Geoff Ward, who lives in Reading, said he wanted to bring the station back to its "original aims".

Following the meeting he said: "I was unhappy with the way the station was being run and there have been certain irregularities in the running of the company I wanted corrected."

Among the directors who have resigned are Hertfordshire county councillor Mark Watkin, former Capital FM executive David Rees and Watford Community Housing Trust chief executive Tina Barnard.

Councillor Watkin said he and other directors were unhappy with the way their removal from the organisation had been conducted.

He said: "If I had been approached in a different way I would have been quite happy to sit on an advisory board. But this was not done properly. To be kicked off the main board then told you can sit on an advisory board - that does not cut the ice."

Councillor Watkin said he had also been left with concerns as to where the station was heading.

Mr Watkin added: "It is supposed to be a community radio station. It is hard to see how, with this guy living in Reading, it will be closer to the community of Watford."

At the end of Wednesday’s meeting, Gavin Harris was re-appointed as a director.

The radio station was formed as a not-for-profit company aimed at 13 to 25 year olds and granted its broadcast licence in 2009. It went fully on air last summer and had asked a number of community figures from Watford and people from the radio industry to become directors.

Vibe, based in the Watford Community Housing Trust headquarters in Clarendon Road, has received more than £3,000 in taxpayer-funded grants from Hertfordshire County Council to help build a second studio.

Following Wednesday’s meeting, remaining director Matt Cadman, who founded the original concept of the radio station in 2006, said: "We don’t want a big board of directors.

"We want a small board to manage the station but an active steering group that includes representatives from all parts of the community to help guide and prioritise the station."