A DEVELOPER has offered to donate an area of Green Belt land to the parish of Sandridge in exchange for the right to build two new homes in the village. John Hill Holdings (JHH) made the offer in a bid to appease residents who have reacted with fury at
HARPENDEN Society has published a new booklet listing all the herbs, plants and trees seen on Harpenden Common between 1942 and 2001. The free booklet, Plants on Harpenden Common, lists 293 different species of herbs, grasses, rushes, sedges, bulbs, ferns
An extra 22 permanent speed cameras are to be placed at accident black spots across Hertfordshire. The county council has joined forces with the police to install the cameras, using Government funding. They will be painted yellow, and located in places
Labour council members are seeking to overturn a controversial new policy which states that wheeled bins which are not closed will not be emptied by refuse collectors. The policy was introduced in August by the borough council's ruling Conservatives to
A low key performance by Tabard on Saturday led to a heavy defeat at Weston-Super-Mare. Had Tabard just managed a little more cohesion in their game, they may have capitalised on the chances they created and could have taken the two league points on offer
Last week, my criticisms of Barnet Council's three regeneration schemes for Hendon were well reported I am all for regeneration, but not if the result is a net loss of affordable homes for ordinary people. Regeneration must address the extra demands on
After being 2-0 down in the first half, Borehamwood 2000 U16s stormed back to win 6-3 in superb style. Within minutes of the restart Wood were level, with goals from Dayo Ashitola and Yah Ya Kanu. A third from James May put Wood ahead 3-2. Rangers got
Hertsmere's struggling waste collection unit could be amalgamated with those of neighbouring councils, in a bid to improve the service and reduce costs. A report commissioned by Hertsmere Borough Council has concluded that the unit is having difficulty
The school run could become a thing of the past in Borehamwood and Elstree after new safer walking routes were launched on Monday. More than 100 children from primary schools in Borehamwood and Elstree gathered at Aberford Park on Monday morning, for
Ishin Ryu Ju-Jitsu members from Borehamwood travelled to Norfolk recently for a national grading, joining 110 adult members of the martial arts movement. The students, including 48 from Borehamwood, were hoping to attain new belts ranging from white belt
Star got off to a fast and furious start and went ahead in the 19th minute. A free kick from Phil Reid found Matt Jones, who evaded a strong tackle to put the ball in the net for Star. A minute later Dan Wicks took a free kick, which Ross Griggs headed
Hertsmere U18s started this Challenge Cup match slowly against last season's First Division Champions, but still managed to create a few chances, which were denied by some fine goalkeeping. Ross Marle finally broke the deadlock just before the break to
After The Cannon's emphatic 7-0 victory last week, they were full of confidence going into this cup tie against Tonwell FC. The Cannon started brightly, but could not break down the Tonwell defence. Paul Green had a great chance in the first ten minutes
An auction of antique and collectable items will be held in aid of the Peace Hospice, Watford, at Bushey Hall School in London Road, Bushey, on Saturday. Items will include pictures, jars, medals and toys. Cash raised will support the hospice's work.
Green charity Groundwork Hertfordshire is offering grants of up to £500 to groups and organisations who come up with projects to help communities and the environment. The grants, supplied by the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions
An open day will be held at Aldenham's Bhaktivedanta Manor on Saturday. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Manor's grounds, take part in free workshops, ride on an Oxcart or enjoy a free vegetarian meal. Saturday's open day will be the last until next
Hertswood's encouraging exam results and the enthusiasm of its pupils suggest it will soon become a school the town can be proud of, according to its headteacher. This week Ian Lucas spoke of his pleasure at the progress that Hertswood has made since
Barclays Bank employees from Borehamwood joined colleagues from across Britain at an It's A Knockout competition recently, raising £20,000 for the British Red Cross. The money raised will be used to fund Red Cross projects in Hertfordshire, West Yorkshire
Children at Fair Field Junior School in Radlett are being taught maths using a pioneering new teaching technique developed in Switzerland. The teaching scheme, called Improving Primary Mathematics, has already been successful in other schools, and teachers
Bibby Financial Services of Borehamwood is warning companies to ensure staff are paid at least the new National Minimum Wage of £4.20 per hour for people aged 22 and over, or £3.60 for those under 21. Underpaying staff is now a criminal offence. October
Volunteers are needed to manage a community centre at Elstree's Composers Park, before it can be brought back to life with a £100,000 revamp. Hertsmere Borough Council, which is paying for the revamp, is looking for a committee of volunteers to be involved
Road safety charity Brake claims that over 2001, 73 children were seriously injured on Hertfordshire's roads, and three were killed. The charity urges drivers to slow down, especially in built up areas. October 1, 2002 17:00
Dancer Sherri Leatham, from Balmoral Drive in Borehamwood, is to spend six months in Paris at the Euro-Disney theme park. Miss Leatham will take a place in the theme park's parade, The Disney Show, from October. She has been training at the Talent Time
CELEBRITY fitness guru, Mr Motivator put students through their paces at St Helen's School last week. The qualified fitness instructor, known to his family and friends as Derrick Evans, took to the school's main sports hall in Eastbury Road, Northwood
HOLLAND'S largest human circus will bring its two hour show complete with clowns, a hula hoop princess, trapeze artists, and high wire walkers, to King George Recreation Ground, in Bushey. From Tuesday, October 22, to Sunday, October 27, The Netherlands
THE owner of a missing tortoise has made a passionate plea for her safe return. The brown tortoise, who does not have a name, was last seen a week ago. Her owner, Mr Larry Sloman, 54, of Horseshoe Lane, Watford, thinks she escaped out of his back garden
SARACENS bounced back in style from two straight defeats with a morale-boosting victory over Northampton Saints at Vicarage Road on Saturday (September 28) afternoon. Two crushing defeats had seen the men in black slip alarmingly down the Zurich Premiership
Barnet 1 Morecambe 1 Nationwide Conference A 30-yard screamer from John Doolan salvaged a point for Barnet on Saturday in a hard-fought encounter at Underhill. Morecambe, boasting one of the most potent attacks in the Conference, started the game the
IF Death Cap, Lawyer's Wig and Fairy Clubs don't mean a thing to you, you can learn about weird and wonderful fungi at a one day training workshop. The session, next Wednesday, is being run run by Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust and the Herts Biological
SCIENTISTS at Rothamsted Research are being turned into comic book characters to encourage people to take an active interest in science. The crop research centre in Harpenden is developing five comic strips, each featuring a scientist at Rothamsted, describing
A MODERN-DAY Fagin was jailed for six years at St Albans Crown Court after pleading guilty to a string of distraction burglaries across the Home Counties. Irishman Martin Cawley, 46, was sentenced with accomplice Sarah McDonagh, 19, both from Luton. McDonagh
TWO avid members of Lifesavers The Royal Life Saving Society Hertfordshire branch received the Queen's Jubilee honour for an outstanding contribution to life-saving. Mr Charles Ferrier, of Westfields, St Albans, and Georgina Hamilton, of Park Avenue,
Across: 1. Remark; 4. Iceni; 8. Noah's Ark; 10. Tic; 11. Overhear; 13. Seen; 15. So-so; 16. Antidote; 19. Lip; Resource; 22. Rayon; 23. Whiter. Down: 1. Rents; 2. Manchester; 3. Reasoned; 5. Car; 6. Impart; 7. Isle; 9. Keep silent; 12. Research; 14. Faster
WHILE Watford try and pick up the financial pieces after the naiveity of the Vialli year, I thought it might be worth tracing how my own relationship with the Italian went through many stages. and how we adopted a policy of constantly turning the other
THREE VALLEYS WATER is advising its customers to be extra vigilant of bogus water servicemen in the area after a number of complaints from unsuspecting householders. Bogus callers can give a variety of reasons for wanting to gain access to a customer's
More than 550 people have signed a peace campaign petition criticising Barnet Council for investing in companies involved in the arms trade. Secretary of the Finchley and District Peace Campaign, Gardi Vaswani, said 558 people signed the petition over
HERTFORDSHIRE POLICE could deliver better services if plans to build five new police stations and specialist custody facilities in the county get the go-ahead. The police intend to build replacement stations in Hertford, Cheshunt and Hoddesdon and a new
Property developers working on the Bowood Court housing estate at Theobald Street, Borehamwood, are appealing against Hertsmere Borough Council's refusal of planning permission for a set of gates leading to the new estate. The Government's Planning Inspectorate
A theatre should be included in the proposed redevelopment of Elstree Way, according to the town council. Councillors, last Thursday, called for the building of a hall. similar to venues enjoyed by Radlett and Potters Bar. They suggested as a site, vacant
Tributes have been paid to retired Borehamwood GP Dr Dennis Goddard who died on Monday. Dr Goddard was the senior partner at Fairbrook Medical Centre, in Borehamwood, when he retired ten years ago after a 30-year career in general practice. The respected
Boreham Wood emerged as the stars of this thrilling cup show before the BBC cameras. The pre-match atmosphere in the bumper crowd was of tense optimism. Programmes sold out and the match was delayed due to crowd congestion. Maidstone came out hell bent
Alexandra started the game brightly and caught Borehamwood cold and were quickly two goals up. After 20 minutes Alexandra scored a third goal. Borehamwood then woke up and started to get into the game. Matthew Hill got his first goal of the game with
The London Colney Colts U14s suffered their first defeat of the season, going down to Sun Postal 5-1, with the consolation goal coming from Jonathan Wills. Nial Carolan was man-of-the-match. Barnaby Mayles, Charles Reed and Sam Youngs scored two goals
In a tense local derby Suffolk started the brighter, and their pacey attacks caused problems for Borehamwood. Suffolk took an early lead through Matt Hudson, and only a fine save from Jack Mullinger in the Borehamwood goal kept the deficit down to one-nil
Star suffered their first defeat of the season against a well-organised Everett side at Pursley on Sunday. Everett took the lead when they hit Star on the break. Jamie Hazell got the equaliser for Star, as a result of a great piece of midfield play between
Borehamwood and Hemel Hempstead fought each other to draw, in an exciting league match on Sunday. Hemel went into the lead through a Wood own-goal, before John Davies equalised for the home side. Nick Duffey turned in another superb performance first
A former Mayor of Hertsmere who was seriously injured in a road accident was given a warm welcome on her return to the council last week. Bushey councillor Audrey Attwood was in intensive care for nine days. October 1, 2002 17:00
Customers of all ages will be asked what they think about libraries in Borehamwood and surrounding areas. Starting on Monday, October 7, there will be questionnaires in libraries for customers to fill out. The responses will help Hertfordshire County
A superstar from the world of Irish music will play at a charity concert in Elstree next month and the Borehamwood & Elstree Times has five sets of tickets to give away. Larry Cunningham is a legend in his own lifetime on the Irish Country Music scene
After last week's defeat manager Mark Peach changed Dragon's starting line-up for this league encounter. Dragon started off well enough. New striking partners Darren Davis and Rees Frost combined well, and both had early shots at goal well-saved. But
After their opener, beating Enfield Rangers 2-1 last week, Borehamwood Youth continued their fine form with and impressive victory over the Hawks, After only forming in May this year, they seem to have a very strong team in all departments. Jack Devanski
The game started evenly with both teams' midfield working hard. Wood broke the deadlock with 30 minutes gone, when a Daniel James cross was met by the foot of Darren Oxley, who scored his fourth goal in the last three games. Sean Woods could have made
A Flymo Lawn Chief 400PD lawnmower was stolen from a shed in Allerton Road, Borehamwood, recently. October 1, 2002 17:00
Hundreds of people from Borehamwood and Shenley enjoyed a pick-me-up on Friday during the World's Biggest Coffee Morning. Mayor of Hertsmere Stuart Nagler was at the Borehamwood event, at Hertsmere Council's Civic Offices in Elstree Way, on behalf of
A couple who were married at an Elstree hotel had some unexpected visitors on their big day a crew of firefighters from Borehamwood Fire Station. The celebration party for Paul Pfiffner and Charlotte Wetherill's wedding was halted by a fire alarm at Edgwarebury
The heart-rending words of 11-year-old twins from Borehamwood are being used in a campaign to find parents to adopt and make children's dreams come true. Hertfordshire County Council, which has 60 children to find families for, has launched a campaign
Borehamwood primary schools Meryfield and St Teresa's JMI are to receive support from county council trouble-shooters, following concerns over their OFSTED inspections. Meryfield and St Teresa's are the only schools in the Borehamwood area which will
The Christmas shopping season has already started at the Oxfam shop in Shenley Road, Borehamwood, where Christmas cards are now on sale. All the profits from the card sales goes to the charity's work. October 1, 2002 17:00
Members of the Nationwide Building Society will be given a chance to quiz the society's group finance director, Alistair Dales, at an event in Borehamwood on Wednesday. The event will be held at the Elstree Moat House hotel from 6.30pm. To book a place
Parents in Hertfordshire are being reminded that the deadline for applying for school places to start next September is October 15 for primary schools and November 5 for secondary schools. Parents can apply via the internet, at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions
Elstree company McNicholas Construction is helping Boreham Wood Football Club to build a new all-weather football pitch and changing rooms. The firm, based in Elstree Road, Elstree, will pay for architects to draw up plans for the pitch and changing rooms
The Borehamwood company responsible for innovative degradable plastic shopping and rubbish bags was planning to place more shares on the stock market this week. Symphony Plastic Technologies Plc, based in Elstree Way, last week applied to place three
Judging by the famous names who have graced the turf at Shenley Cricket Centre this summer, it seems that the historic ground is now marked on the map of world cricket. Stars of the game such as Brian Lara, Mike Gatting and Aravinda da Silva have all
Hertsmere MP James Clappison has joined the rest of the Conservative Party in supporting Prime Minister Tony Blair's stance against Iraq. Following the Government's publication of its dossier of evidence against Iraq and Mr Blair's statement to the commons
The council is holding a Question Time on Wednesday, October 30, and residents are invited to submit questions. Questions have to be sent in writing to: Question Time, October 2002, Secretariat, Hertsmere Borough Council, Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood
A MAN bailed after being accused of being drunk and disorderly and being equipped to commit theft has blamed media intrusion on his failure to turn up at court. Recovering heroin and crack cocaine addict Robert Keating, 23, of Jackettsfield, Abbots Langley
WHEN he joined as a wide-eyed 16-year-old office boy, he was only going to stay for a few months. Half a century and several promotions later, however, Mr John Pitkin is now a leading consultant with the same Watford-based property firm. In celebration
A TEACHER from Radlett will take on a daunting challenge to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Relief, after being struck with the disease himself. Mr Eric Hill, of Crosspath, Radlett, who teaches science at Bentley Wood School, Harrow Weald, was off work
STAFF and members of a local teacher supply agency celebrated last week when it was presented with the new prestigious Quality Mark Award. The Hertfordshire based agency, Supply Desk, was one of four nationwide selected for the new award by the Recruitment
A PART-time school teacher who became a deacon seven years ago was ordained priest on Sunday. Rev Peter Stearn of All Saints church, Church Lane, Kings Langley, and more than 100 parishioners made the trip to St Albans Abbey to celebrate Rev Catherine
SARACENS' head coach Buck Shelford, scathing after successive defeats against London Irish and London Wasps, was full of praise for his rejuvenated side after they bounced back with a 31-19 win over Northampton on Saturday at Vicarage Road. "We found
