In November motorists who claimed to have seen an abandoned spaceship in Leavesden had their hopes dashed.
The unidentified object, which looked like “something that had been left behind by the makers of Star Wars” actually turned out to be a machine for taking aerial photos of the studios.
Local politician David White relocated to Hull – 180 miles away – where he planned to still do his job as an Abbots Langley Parish councillor.
Watford FC faced an uncertain future after a text from owner Lawrence Bassini to the Watford Observer said he was quitting the board.
It was also revealed that despite trying to cut costs by turning off street lights, the county council was ploughing £100,000 a year into a glossy magazine.
Sadly at the end of November, news that a promising 29-year-old soldier from Northwood was killed in Afghanistan.
Private Thomas Lake was the third soldier from south west Hertfordshire to die in the conflict.
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