Emergency in Bushey
Firefighters, paramedics and police officers are dealing with an ongoing incident in Bushey. Five fire engines, three ambulances and three police cars are in Chalk Hill. The Incident Command Unit is also at the scene. It is not
Firefighters, paramedics and police officers are dealing with an ongoing incident in Bushey. Five fire engines, three ambulances and three police cars are in Chalk Hill. The Incident Command Unit is also at the scene. It is not
A SCHOOLGIRL from South Oxhey is raising hundreds of pounds to improve the life of her little brother. Jordan Trevett, aged nine, will brave sore feet and aching legs as she takes part in a four-hour sponsored dance-a-thon on Sunday. Six-year-old brother
WATFORD Football Club has lost one of its biggest fans, following the sudden death of a popular steward. Ron Lewis, of Manor Road in Watford, first joined the Vicarage Road club in 1978 and worked in a range of jobs, including a turnstile operator. He
PARENTS have backed controverisal plans to introduce fingerprint scanners to improve security at a Watford nursery. Fingerprint scanners will be installed at 50 kidsunlimited nurseries across the country, including one in Printers Avenue, Watford. Parents
The Watford manager has acknowledged the rate his team are shipping goals is “very worrying”, but is hoping Jay DeMerit and Darren Ward can build on an improved central defensive showing in the defeat at Preston North End as the Hornets aim to pick up
WATFORD MP Claire Ward has again clashed with the mayor sparking a war of words over the council’s spending record. Ms Ward has carried out a survey of the town’s residents and says many parts of Watford have deteriorated over the past few years because
These street party photographs were handed to Nostalgia by Jean Castle, of Grover Road, Watford. They show some patriotic flag-waving residents of the town, thought to be at the time of King George VI’s coronation in 1936. Are there any readers
A 73-year-old woman was viciously attacked by thugs at a bowls club presentation evening. The pensioner was enjoying the annual event at the Manor House Sports Club in Gallows Hill Lane, Abbots Langley with her son on Friday evening, when trouble flared
Hertfordshire County Council has paid out more than £1million compensation to people falling over or tripping on the area’s roads and pavements in the last five years. In total, the county council has forked out £1,111,835 on slips, trips and falls
A DISPLAY of colours and smells will decorate All Saints Church in Kings Langley this weekend as the church celebrates its flower festival. Better together will be the theme at this year’s three-day event in Church Lane. As well as the
Aidy Boothroyd has admitted he is not in a position to give assurances about John-Joe O’Toole’s long-term Watford future, or that of any other player, in light of the Hornets’ financial position and the ongoing attempts to sell the club.
TERRIFIED post office staff were threatened at gunpoint by a masked robber this week. The shocking raid, on Wednesday afternoon, is the latest in a spate of vicious attacks in and around the normally sleepy village of Kings Langley.
Artists have walked out en masse from Harrow Arts Centre in a storm over the censorship of five paintings. Cheryl Gould, who teaches life drawing at The Frobisher Art Studio in Bushey Museum and at Harrow Arts Centre, is leading the boycott after Harrow
Rifles, shotguns and ammunition were stolen from a house in Watford during an early morning burglary. Police were called to the property in Horseshoe Lane yesterday (Thursday), shortly after 4am. Detectives are now appealing for the return of the stolen
Like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, former soldier Geoff Bould has committed his thoughts about war to paper in a collection of poems entitled Shadows, based on his personal recollections of the World War Two. Having served as a tank crew member
Much amusement this week as potty-mouthed football manager Joe Kinnear attempted (without success) to explain away his now legendary four letter rant to national sports reporters. In case you missed it, former Watford lad Joe, now interim boss
Sarries head to Bristol tomorrow knowing only a bonus point victory will keep their EDF Energy Cup hopes alive. The Men in Black have to muster five points and are reliant on Northampton beating the Scarlets and denying the Welsh side a bonus
Ernest Puddephatt, Charles Dogget, Stanley Biggerstaff and Ephraim Haysman may sound more like names from a Dickens novel rather than anything we could relate to today, but for the inhabitants of Chipperfield, they are forever entwined with the history
The credit crunch might be biting down hard, we all might be tightening our belts to the point where it’s difficult to breathe and to top off the gloom, the nights are just about to get a whole lot longer and darker, but thank heavens we’ve still got
Festive cheer will fill Watford high street, when the annual Christmas lights ceremony takes place. The event, on Thursday, November 6, starts at 6pm when Jeff Brazier introduces a number of special guests, including Watford's X Factor star Amy Connelly
Learning how to recite Shakespeare backwards is all in a day’s work for the performers from Hertfordshire County Youth Theatre who bring Tom Stoppard’s tongue-twisting Dogg’s Hamlet Cahoot’s Macbeth (DHCM) to Watford Palace. The production consists of