The A414 North Orbital will be closed tonight for emergency road works to repair damage caused by the recent bad weather. The closure starts from 8pm and will affect the westbound lane between the longabout and the London Colney roundabout.
Firefighters were called to a garden bonfire in Garston after smoke started billowing onto the M1. Crews from Garston Fire Station attended the address in Bucknalls Lane at around midday today. Firefighter Stuart Grant-Salmon said the occupants
Saracens are understood to be considering staging games next season in South Africa and Belgium in addition to five matches at Vicarage Road. The Premiership rugby club have confirmed their first game at their new home in Copthall Stadium will
Hertfordshire Constabulary is keeping tight-lipped about whether a plan to outsource back office functions to G4S will be scrapped in the wake of the Olympics security shambles. The three forces had been planning on using the company to provide
Watford players will no longer be sold to fund operating loses, according to the club’s chief executive Scott Duxbury. The Hornets have made no secret of the fact they needed to sell players to balance the books in recent years and there are noticeable
Oxhey Jets have taken an unusual step in readying the squad for the new campaign as the squad reported back for pre-season training. The Spartan South Midlands Premier Division side will be looking to finish higher up the table this season but
A pensioners’ group is having social trip to Stratford-upon-Avon funded by Hertfordshire County Council . North Bushey Pensioner’s Voice, a social club for pensioners aged 70 and over, is due to receive £470 to make the trip to see the birthplace
A Kings Langley mother who won the support of MPs and politicians in a bid to raise awareness about her daughter’s rare heart condition is to appear on BBC daytime program The One Show. Alexandra Smith, 33, took her case to parliament after doctors
A man has denied assault in connection with an incident where a woman travelling in a car in Garston was allegedly attacked. Jamie McCarville, from Lord Street, appeared at St Albans Magistrates' Court yesterday, charged with assault and using
The most common divorce questions answered. Do I get an automatic divorce after 2 / 5years? NO. You will still need to file a petition, pay a fee and do exactly what you would do if you were divorcing straight away based on adultery or
Garston Ladies took on a touring side from New York last Friday as they stepped up their preparations for their forthcoming American tour. The girls entertained a team representing NOGA Soccer (which stands for No Other Game Around) but fell to
A teenager raised £520 for charity by completing the London to Brighton cycle ride. Lewis Barton, 14, a pupil of St Michael’s Catholic High School in Garston, was raising funds for his school’s ongoing charity for Rwanda. He managed to complete
Benefit cheat Patricia Blankson claimed £13,000 even though she owned four properties. The £300-a-day IT consultant failed to tell the authorities about the homes she had bought with her late husband, St Albans crown court heard today.. Blankson
A Kings Langley mother who won the support of MPs and politicians in a bid to raise awareness about her daughter’s rare heart condition is to appear on BBC daytime program The One Show. Alexandra Smith, 33, took her case to parliament after doctors repeatedly
WE tend to opt for the guided tour round the bigger cities and we find it extremely beneficial many more times than not. We took a trolley trip (another bus with a diesel engine called a trolley) round Santa Fe, which of course is the end of the
The Herts Air Ambulance fundraising team is looking for supporters to embark on the charity’s next big challenge – trekking the Dead Sea to Petra. From November 3 to 10, 2013, volunteers will face the challenge of a lifetime, taking on Jordan’s
Watford defender Martin Taylor believes former Hornets boss Sean Dyche “couldn’t have done any more” during his time as manager but stated his dismissal is “the way football works”. Dyche’s sole season in charge at Vicarage Road was an undoubted
Inspired by the forthcoming Olympic and Paralympic games in London members of DRUM (Disability Recreation Unity Movement) have taken part in an art challenge which was exhibited to the public at the latest Drumworks exhibition. Members of DRUM
Sun Postal Youth Football Club are on the hunt for new players for next season’s under-nines team. Boys currently in Year 3 at school interested in joining a team are invited to come along to an open training session being held tomorrow (Saturday
Officials from Kings Langley will be presented with a plaque tomorrow to celebrate their village of the year success. Last month, Kings Langley won the regional award for the west of Hertfordshire. The plaque that the village won will
A Watford borough councillor who was kicked out of the town’s Conservative Party for the second time in two years described the decision as a “blow for diversity”. Park ward councillor Malcolm Meerabux had his membership terminated by a vote
The Watford Health Campus became embroiled in a political row this week as borough councillors split over whether allotment land should be used in the project. At a full Watford Borough Council meeting on Wednesday the opposition Labour party
While the nation’s eyes are fixed firmly on the Olympic Torch Relay crossing the nation, for one Watford resident there is an alternative. Eight-thousand people are carrying the Olympic Flame towards Stratford in time for the Opening Ceremony next
A great grandmother from South Oxhey, one of the estate’s renowned characters, passed away on Monday, July 9, after suffering a stroke the week before. She was 79 years old. Rita Braine, of Hayling Road, moved to South Oxhey in the 1950s. She had
Highly-respected football director Ross Wilson is set to leave the Hornets, the Watford Observer can exclusively reveal. Wilson joined the club last summer from Falkirk and made an immediate impact, with Hornets legend Graham Taylor quickly claiming
