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Sailing club hoping for new members

The Colne Valley Special Sailors have been helping disabled people get out on to the water since 2001.

2:50pm Saturday 30th August 2008

Bouyed by Britain’s gold rush at the Beijing Olympics and the coming spectacle of the Paralympics Games, members of a disability sailing club are hoping to attract more potential champions to the water.

Ron returns from trip of a lifetime

Ron Smith (right) and Kevin Scully who also won the BT competition.

1:10pm Saturday 30th August 2008

A Kings Langley man has returned from the Olympics after winning a competition for his work in the community.

Railway posters up for auction

11:30am Saturday 30th August 2008

TWO vintage railway posters by a Kings Langley artist are expected to fetch a total of £2,400 at an auction.

Company keeps care contract

9:10am Saturday 30th August 2008

AN adult care contractor branded a “shambles” and a “disgrace” by the dozens of patients it failed will continue caring for hundreds of vulnerable and elderly people, councillors have decided.

New appeal for knife-attack witnesses

7:50pm Friday 29th August 2008

A teenager who had his throat slit during a brutal knife attack remains in hospital where he continues to recover from his injuries.

Treatment could save elderly's sight

5:00pm Friday 29th August 2008

Hundreds of elderly people in south-west Hertfordshire at risk of going blind could have their eye-sight saved with treatment previously unavailable on the NHS.

Man denies racist abuse allegation

3:30pm Friday 29th August 2008

A man set up a stall in a busy South Oxhey shopping parade, shouted that all Muslims were terrorists and called for their execution, a court has heard.

Don't forget to vote

1:10pm Friday 29th August 2008

Watford Borough Council are compiling a new Register of Electors for 2009.

Sharp rise in repossessions

11:50am Friday 29th August 2008

Watford has seen the biggest increase in the number of repossessions of any town in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Essex, government statistics have revealed.

Maoise found

Vulnerable woman missing

11:14am Friday 29th August 2008

An "extremely vulnerable" young woman who went missing from a mental unit in Watford has been found.


UK Sport News

Flintoff takes top spot

Andrew Flintoff

Updated 3:47pm Saturday 30th August 2008

Andrew Flintoff's role in England's NatWest Series victory over South Africa has taken him to the top of the ICC one-day international rankings for all-rounders.


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