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  • Nashville Nights and Dixie Days

    Presented by Neil Sands Productions; The Radlett Centre, Aldenham Avenue, Radlett; Saturday, September 10, 7.30pm; tickets £14. Tel: box office 01923 859291.

  • Rising Stars Concert

    Featuring local bands Oblivion, The Hoggz and The Horns House Band; in aid of the Peace Hospice; The Colosseum, Rickmansworth Road, Watford; Friday, September 9, 7.30pm; tickets £5 standing and £8 seated.

  • Watford Camera Club

    Meets for nature photography by Jill Pekenham Watford Central Library, Lecture Hall, Hempstead Road, Watford; Friday, September 9, 7.45pm.

  • Bedmond Women's Institute

    Meets at the Bedmond Village Hall, Bedmond; Friday, September 9, 7.30pm. New members are always welcome.

  • Fashion Show

    In aid of the Peace Hospice; BHS, Watford; Thursday, September 8, 7.30pm; tickets £5 available from BHS customer services and The Peace Hospice reception.

  • Northwood Arts' Society

    Meets for demonstrations and discussions; Northwood Methodist Church (the Oasis Room), Oaklands Gate, Northwood; Thursday, September 8, 7.30pm; visitors and new members welcome.

  • Watford and Bushey Art Society

    Meets for a Late Summer Scene, watercolour demonstration by Geoffrey Vivis ; Beechen Grove Baptist Church Hall, Clarendon Road, Watford; Tuesday, September 6, 7.30pm; visitors welcome, admission £2.

  • The Mike Ellis Jazz and Swing Band

    With guest vocalist Emer McParland; Bushey Country Club, High Street, Bushey; Tuesday, September 6, 8.15pm; admission £7 payable at the door.

  • Purple tribute band

    In aid of the Peace Hospice; The Flag, Station Road, Watford; Saturday, September 3, 7.30pm to 11pm.

  • Driver caught illegally plying for hire

    A COVERT operation monitoring private hire vehicles in Watford has identified a driver from another borough operating in the town. Officers from Watford Borough Council's licensing team and western area road policing unit, supported by the town centre

  • Teenagers create tranquil study space

    SIX weeks ago, the area was an overgrown mess choked with nettles, brambles and other weeds. But, thanks to the efforts of ten teenagers, a site at the Three Valleys Water Environment Centre in Bushey is now a landscaped study area. The hard work of

  • Residents object to parking plans for play area

    A STRING of objections have followed an application to put parking bays in the place of a children's play area in South Oxhey. The land in front of 66 and 68, and 74 and 76 Woodhall Lane is frequently used as an amenity space and play area for local

  • Watford Camera Club

    Meets for the fourth essential Frank Weemys APAGB and inspiring photos by Tejas Udani; Watford Central Library, Lecture Hall, Hempstead Road, Watford; Friday, September 2, 7.45pm.

  • Following in giants' footsteps

    TWO young actors from Watford have been treading the boards once graced by such titans of the industry as Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Daniel Day-Lewis. They have beaten off competition from thousands of other hopefuls who audition each year to become

  • Actress shines in competition

    Abbots Langley may be a small village, but one of its amateur dramatic societies has just won praise in a competition involving groups from as far away as Cape Town and New York, writes Helen Williams. The Abbots Langley Gilbert and Sullivan Society

  • Memories of speedway at The Swillett

    A PHOTOGRAPH of cycle speedway teams from The Swillett and Maple Cross published recently prompted Michael Boxall, of Hayes, to write in. "Nostalgia has played a big part in my life over the past 15 years having lost three family members, including

  • Seeing the animals at Cawdells

    FOLLOWING a question about a Christmas zoo at Cawdells department store in Watford, Mrs D Cooper of Abbots Langley wrote in: "As a small girl in the 1930's, I vaugely remember zoo animals in Cawdells basement, but I thought it was more of a circus.

  • Parade set for revamp

    SHOPS that will not become a magnet for anti-social behaviour is what people want for a redevelopment in Abbots Langley. Plans have been drawn up for the revamp of the shopping parade in School Mead. Currently, the parade of shops is an eyesore

  • Flytipper's hair today, but not gone tomorrow

    A BARBER from Bushey who dumped his customers' hair in the village has been fined £1,000. Daniel "Dee" Johnson, of Little Grove, pleaded guilty to flytipping after ditching black bags filled with hair, along with domestic rubbish including rotting

  • Schools celebrate high A-level pass rates

    PUPILS and teacher across South West Herts were celebrating impressive A-level results in August. At Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School in Elstree 99.6 per cent of boys achieved grades A, B or C. Overall, there was a 100 per cent pass rate at the

  • It's never too early for A-levels

    A 14-year-old boy who studied in Watford received his second grade B at A-level in August. Ilia Karmanov, of Roxeth Hill, Harrow, is about to start studying for his GCSEs, but has already passed A-level economics earlier this year, and computing, when

  • Pupils joyful over record exam results

    AFTER weeks of waiting, GCSE pupils around the county anxiously opened their exam result envelopes on Thursday, August 25. At Queens' School, Bushey, a crowd nervously gathered outside the south hall just before 11am. When the doors opened and the