A Watford pub has been granted permission to increase its number of gambling machines.

Councillors on Watford Borough Council ’s licensing sub committee voted to allow Columbia Press, in The Parade, to add a sixth machine to ones it already has.

Licensed premise have to apply for every extra gambling machine once they have more than four in their establishment.

The decision was voted through at the hearing on Friday by Liberal Democrats councillors George Derbyshire and Ian Brown and The Green Party's Ian Brandon.