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Biting attacker rumours untrue, say police
REPORTS of a racist attacker who bites his female victims are unfounded, say police. Since the start of the month police have been receiving calls from residents concerned about rumours of a racist attacker in the West Watford area. Inspector Ron Scales
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Preaching the benefits of Pilates
A BUSHEY resident who broke her back when she was a child has qualified as a Pilates instructor and is setting up local workshops. Trudi Barnett, 30, of Falconer Road, damaged two vertebrae when she was six and suffered pains throughout her adult life
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Schools take part in rock challenge
THREE local schools took centre stage at the Alban Arena in St Albans yesterday (Tuesday) for the annual Rock Challenge. Presenting routines on subjects ranging from teenage pregnancy to modern day love, Francis Combe School and Community College, Kings
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Apprentice for Allenso
Reader Stanley Puddifoot encloses the indenture for Allenso Ltd, the firm recently featured in these columns "This Indenture witnesseth, That Stanley William Puddifoot of 191 Chester Road, Watford in the County of Hertfordshire an Infant of the age
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Seeking lost sweetheart
Peter Schmidt of Bckergasse 39, 93059 Regensburg, Germany, e-mailed the nostalgia section on peterkarl@gmx.de I am searching for a woman I met in 1973 in Bushey Heath. I was 14 and she was 13. She was my first kiss and now I am 46 and think about
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Who else kept in touch with Belgian friends?
Jose Watson (nee Bevan) of Trewinnard, Cornwall, wrote in with memories of a post-war trip to Belgium. I was born in Watford in 1936, went to local schools, parents and grandparents born and bred in Watford. My mother was born and died in Watford
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Memories of Ault and Wiborg
IN response to a request for memories of a firm called Ault and Wiborg, Pat Quick (ne Johnson) of Ashfield Avenue, Bushey, wrote in. I worked there as a typist/telephonist for a short time in the late 1950's. Ault and Wiborg were printing ink manufacturers
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Does anyone remember?
MORE recent questions sent in by readers of the nostalgia pages. Q. 2005 is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. One of the Capels, a younger son of the Earl of Essex, fought under Nelson. For a while he, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Bladen
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New wheels for police patrol
A CAR dealership has provided Watford's community police team with a VW Polo 1.4 to help them patrol the streets. Citygate Watford has sponsored the vehicle, which is in operation across the district. Richard Eagell, operations manager of Citygate
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Society meeting
THE monthly meeting of the West Herts Parkinson's Disease Society Branch is on Thursday, March 3, at St Thomas Church, Langley Road, Watford, starting at 2pm. The guest speaker is Felicity Cox, chief executive of Watford and Three Rivers Primary Care
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New faces
TWO new faces have joined the board of Watford and Three Rivers Primary Care Trust (PCT). Colin Palmer, who has worked in the travel and IT industries, and Michael Sniders, who has a long record working for the public service, have been appointed to
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Moves to prevent transfer crisis
COUNCIL chiefs have pledged to bring in measures to prevent a school transfer crisis for local children, it was revealed this week. The move comes in response to a petition signed by more than 750 people objecting to the lack of school places for children
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Debating tough topics
HUMAN rights, global economics and the eradication of polio were just some of the tough topics debated by pupils from a local boys school at a recent visit to The Hague. The pupils from Haberdashers' Aske's School for Boys in Elstree made the visit
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Status report
A REPORT unveiled in February by Ofsted chief David Bell states that teaching is better in specialist schools and they have a greater "sense of purpose". Queens' School, Bushey, St Joan of Arc School, Rickmansworth, and Watford Grammar School for Boys
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Youth parliament
TWO local pupils have been elected to represent Hertfordshire in the UK Youth Parliament. Wis wang-Koh, 15, from Watford Grammar School for Girls, and Ashley Wilson, 14, from Kings Langley School have been newly elected as members of the Youth Parliament
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Louise is top dog on art competition
A NORTHWOOD schoolgirl has scooped a prestigious prize in a national art competition with a sculpture of a 12-foot-high Chihuahua. The award winning work, entitled Jordan and depicting a massive dog with a bag of Barbie and Ken dolls in its mouth,
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The library in a farmhouse
Memories of the library on the Carpenders Park Estate are evoked in a letter from Carol Males of Northfield Gardens, Watford. I was brought up on the Carpenders Park Estate and we lived right next door to the library at number 62, Little Oxhey lane
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Legends of Tommy Deacon
John Holloway of Garden Close, Watford, wrote in response to a question on how Tommy Deacon's Hill got its name. I HAVE just come across mention of Tommy Deacon's Hill in the 1931 edition History of Watford by W R Saunders and he says that there are
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Memories of ghostly happenings in Cassiobury Court
Mary Forsyth of Watford, writes: "Regarding Cassiobury Court. I have been in correspondence, privately, with the descendants of Hugh Angell who ran a riding stables from this building in the 1930's. "I have permission from one of them, Mrs E Bloxham
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Further memories of Arthur Grimsdell
Dorothy Woodward of Watford, write in concerning a newsagent's shop in Watford High Street. I SET out below some comments which may be of interest to the readers of the Nostalgia page: I would like to clear up one or two misleading comments which
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Hornets stun league leaders
WATFORD warmed the hearts, if not the bodies, of their small but brave number of fans at a bitterly cold Portman Road on Tuesday, February 22 by scoring a shock 2-1 victory over top-of-the-table Ipswich Town. Boss Ray Lewington was the first to admit
