Watford, England News

EMERGENCY access to A&E in Watford is to be revolutionised after hospital chiefs were handed 7 million to pay for a new link road.

Shoppers in The Harlequin were serenaded by the dulcet tones of Let Me Entertain You finalist Aaron Norton over the weekend.

A fifth man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of Watford father Mohammed Khan, who was gunned down in his home last year.

A new-for-old scheme at a Watford shoe shop is offering a A 10 voucher to anyone who donates an old pair of shoes.

Taxi drivers are to be allowed to drive in certain bus lanes around Watford after proposals for a pilot scheme were backed by councillors this week.

Watford MP Richard Harrington has held a meeting with health secretary Andrew Lansley to stress how important the Health Campus project is to the future of Watford.

Friends, neighbours and family have joined together for a surprise birthday party for a 90-year old Garston great-grandmother at Stanborough Park Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Highways bosses have urged councillors to support plans for a pilot scheme enabling taxis to use certain bus lanes in Watford.

On Saturday night police were called to Aldenham Road after an articulated lorry became stuck between Vale Road and Chalk Hill.

Criminals stole from Watford shops on average more than two times a day in the months leading up to Christmas, police figures reveal.

Politicians in Watford have hailed a government cash pledge as a "critical stride" towards the A 1bn redevelopment of the hospital site.

A scathing report into the appearance and commercial viability of South Oxhey's shopping centre said many of the buildings were "derelict, redundant and defective". Lambert Smith Hampton was commissioned to write a report on the suburb's centre, the precinct, focussing on the potential for repair and refurbishment.

A father gassed himself to death in his car in a Watford car park as he felt his family's lives would be better without him, an inquest heard.

Part of Hempstead Road was sealed off after the accident between a blue Yamaha and red Land Rover Discovery at the junction with Grove Mill Lane at around 7.30am. Gary Sanderson, a spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service , said: "A man was treated at the scene by the ambulance crews before he was taken to Watford General Hospital with ... (more)

A trio of robbers who attacked a man in Bushey with a metal bar before stealing his phone and wallet have all been sentenced to prison.

Pupils at a school in Watford have presented a cheque for A 700 to a charity helping to provide education for children around the world.

An 89-year-old man died a month after being knocked down as he crossed a road in Watford using his walking frame, a court heard yesterday.

Friendship has forged the songs on Navaro's astonishingly beautiful new album, Home Is Where The Heartland Is.

Cyclists in north Watford will be able to get their bikes security marked for free at a police run event next month.

Born in 1938, he grew up in Carpender's Park, attending Watford Field School and later Watford Boys Grammar School, where he discovered his love of music.