MORE than 50 jobs at the Watford branch of a major insurance company are under threat, after the proposed closure of the local office was announced this week. The Co-op Insurance Society (CIS) is planning to close 14 of its offices around Britain, including
HERTSMERE Borough Council is doing its bit for national No Smoking Day on Wednesday, March 9, by encouraging residents to kick the habit. Officials are trying to persuade people to give up by emphasising the financial benefits. A person who smokes 20
THE alarm was raised at Watford Museum on Tuesday morning after an old fire extinguisher was found to be leaking a strange substance. Garston firefighters were called to the scene and examined the leak, which was coming from a box labelled as a fire
IT USED to be traditional English restaurant, replete with morning coffees, meat and two veg and an evening meal. I suspect, if you were really lucky, you could also obtain a bowl of brown Windsor soup. It was called The Chequers tea room and restaurant
THERE are occasions when I eat out and want the establishment to serve a good meal because they are trying so hard and such is their eagerness to please. The other night two of us popped into The Rose And Crown on Harefield Road, Rickmansworth, and emerged
SURELY you have been to The Grove. It's a must. How many times have I heard a comment along those lines? Invariably I have responded with the hopefully withering put-down that I was one of the first to play the golf course when it was completed, but more
WE did not know it then, but the pub scene was to become irrevocably altered. The increasingly strict application of the drink-driving laws were changing the emphasis, particularly with regard to country pubs. They had a need to diversify. Some 28
WHEN German icon Marlene Dietrich sang, "Ich hab noch einene Koffer in Berlin" ("I still keep a suitcase in Berlin"), the words rang with a certain poignancy over many successive decades. Having endured a history of devestation, unemployment and division
MENTION a tale of two cities and you could be forgiven for thinking about a novel by Charles Dickens, not Los Angeles, a city located off the warm shores of the south Californian coast. But delve deeper into Californian history and you will discover
ORIGINALLY it was earmarked as the Watford Central station for the extended Metropolitan Line but that idea died many years ago as the Met Line terminated in West Watford, unable to cross Cassiobury Park. Since then the building in Watford High Street
WHEN launching St James restaurant in Bushey High Street, the original owner was determined to propel it to the top of the tree of local eateries, and there are many who will attest that mission was accomplished. I have not dined in all the local restaurants
Frank Sanok e-mailed from franks@aa-fs.com: I am an American who was stationed in Watford during early 1957. I am attempting to find a lady named Janet Lyon whose father was called Jock. She worked at a hair salon in town. I can be reached
A reader asked if anyone could recall a firm called Ault and Wyborg. Judy Cummings of Meadow Road, Kingswood, Watford, wrote in: MY husband Bob Cummings worked at Ault and Wyborg from 1967 until 1971. Bob was a chemist and worked for a division called
