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Jesus does not live in Bushey
9:27am Friday 7th March 2008
IF you've got any dirty little secrets then I'd urge you to get them off your chest pronto. Judgment Day, it would appear, is upon us. Yes, Jesus Christ is alive and well and living in a modest one bed flat under Bushey Arches.

Having another eighties moment
9:23am Friday 7th March 2008
Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan were pop's power couple when I started work for the Watford Observer.

Taking on Fleet Street’s finest
9:26am Friday 29th February 2008
AS the telly-addicts and political animals among you will know, BBC 1’s Question Time rolled into town last Thursday.

The zoo ignites life-long passion
9:17am Friday 29th February 2008
INSPIRED by the recent glorious weather, we decided to visit the zoo last Saturday.

Silence is not always golden
2:29pm Friday 22nd February 2008
Never interview a mime artist. Five words of unparalleled wisdom from our ever popular colleague Michael Pickard after a somewhat bizarre encounter with some performing arts students late last week.

We were being stalked by dealers
2:27pm Friday 22nd February 2008
WE knew it was time to start looking at new cars when we realised that we were actually thinking about hiring one for our annual trip down to Cornwall this year.

I could swing for Gallows
3:10pm Friday 8th February 2008
After four years at university, including a year abroad in South Carolina, I've lost count how many times I've had to try to explain where Watford is.
Reader comments (6)

What a waste of time and opportunity
3:08pm Friday 8th February 2008
It's ironic that Prince Charles, he of the phrase "monstrous carbuncle", was the royal drafted in to officially open Charter Place.

Croaking with embarrassment
2:20pm Friday 1st February 2008
EVERYONE'S talking about Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, but "Sweeney Toad" is a first, as thought up by type-setters in our production department.

Celebrating half a century in style
2:12pm Friday 1st February 2008
IF I say so myself, my husband's 50th birthday present was a great success. A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I was planning to whisk him away to a smart hotel for the big event and, luckily, I did indeed eventually find somewhere suitable for the occasion - although in this case the building was actually celebrating something closer to its 500th year.

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