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Nearly 1,500 people in Watford were contacted by the NHS Covid-19 app and told to isolate in the latest week, figures reveal.

After a challenging year, students are seeking out a university experience that works for them.

Kiko Femenia is close to returning to fitness and wants to play in Watford's opening match of the 2021/22 season.

New guidance on hybrid working has been published by ACAS to help employers consider, discuss and introduce this flexible way of working in their workplace.

An £820 million film and TV studios facility is set to be built in Hertfordshire and will create more than 4,500 jobs.

The following announcements were carried in the Watford Observer last week:

The pub pictured at the top of the page was demolished more than a century ago but it was located close to what became one of Watford's best known family businesses.

Watford supporters on average are not too optimistic about the club’s upcoming Premier League campaign, new figures show.

A trainee accountant has scooped a £190,000 prize including a brand-new Bentley in the online competition BOTB.

Max Whitlock rose to the occasion once again to successfully defend his Olympic pommel title at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo.

A weeklong ‘religious festival’ in Sarratt attended by travellers has finished.

Firefighters were rushed to an address in Rickmansworth as a fridge had caught fire.

Planning applications for Watford this week include the conversion of Rift & Co bar in High Street to an adult gaming centre.

Hi, my name is Ozzy, this is my best friend Gilmore, and we’re a pair of sweet six-year-old boys looking for a home together. We came to the National Animal Welfare Trust in May when our owners moved and couldn’t take us with them.

Well here we are again and thank you for joining me on a ramble down Memory Lane. I must start by explaining why I so often refer to films and television made in Elstree and Borehamwood rather than at Pinewood, Shepperton or Leavesden.

The licence fees existence is guaranteed until at least 31 December 2027 by the BBC's Royal Charter.

Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen a massive increase in people choosing to start up an additional business venture.

Watford welcomed supporters back to Vicarage Road last weekend with a 0-0 draw against West Bromwich Albion.

In the early 1950s my father attended an auction at Oxhey Place in Oxhey Lane, a mansion then owned by the well-known Blackwell family of Crosse & Blackwell.

An innovative online jobs fair was popular with employers and employees alike after it was attended by more than 350 people and 29 job positions were offered on the spot.

Watford's MP and mayor could be set for a showdown meeting after a blazing row over the borough's housing policy.

A new virtual production stage on the outskirts of Watford is set to change the way films are made, the excited head of studio operations at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden believes.

Residents have raised concerns over plans for a new gambling centre at a former pub site.

Whether it's the energy of a waterfall or a peaceful scene of a village pond on a summer's day, water has again inspired more impressive pictures from members of the Watford Observer Camera Club.

Space: the final frontier - unless you are a pampered billionaire where this supposed ‘frontier’ is breached twice in little over a week. So finally, after years of planning and preparation, the Amazonians only managed to come in second place aft...

According to research, Brits spend £1,000 per year on takeaways averaging at £80 per month. (PA)

Rennes defender Brandon Soppy is being targeted by the Pozzos and could end up at either Watford or Udinese.

Of the UK drivers surveyed, 17% wanted the maximum legal speed in wet conditions cut to 65mph.

Doubt has been cast on plans to develop Watford General Hospital after the Government ordered trusts to submit schemes with slashed budgets.

A Borehamwood man has been sentenced after a woman in her 20s woke up to find him "licking her feet" in her hotel room in Hertfordshire.

Police have issued an appeal asking for help tracing a wanted man from Rickmansworth.

County councillors have been formally advised that they must isolate – and NOT attend county council meetings – if they have been ‘pinged’ by the NHS ‘Test and Trace’ app.

THE number of fly-tipping incidents increased across Hertfordshire last year – by more than 50 per cent.

The second week of open air performances in Watford’s Cassiobury Park is here and here is a roundup of what is in store over the next nine days.

Councillors in Dacorum have delayed publishing their final local plan after admitting “a lot of work” still needs to be done on the proposals.

HIGHWAYS bosses have vowed to monitor temporary traffic lights after failures caused long delays and major traffic congestion.

Progress towards a revamped Watford General Hospital looks increasingly unstoppable after Watford Borough Council unanimously granted outline planning permission for it to be redeveloped.

A nine-year-old boy has written to the Queen pleading for help after the draining of a reservoir has sparked fears for wildlife.

Train passengers and commuters are being warned of "severe disruption" as rail workers are set to strike for four days.

Proposals have been unveiled for an adult gaming centre for a former high street pub.

Morning commuters are facing "long delays" in busy city centre roads today.

A shortage of drivers with many self-isolating is causing a struggle of staff in waste collection services across Hertfordshire.

Traffic in Watford is facing disruption from next week when a busy road is closed while roadworks are carried out.

An inquisitive otter was spotted

Watford will go into the 2021/22 Premier League season with a point to prove, with bookies making them favourites for relegation.

Anthony Matthews’ article, accompanied by William Coles’ postcard of Lower High Street c1900, prompted me to add my tuppence worth.

Watford are yet to make an approach for Blackburn Rovers striker Adam Armstrong, contrary to reports.

The viral clip features a Nationwide Building Society cash point although any ATM could be affected including major banks and supermarkets.