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FIVE YEARS AGO Shame on you: Application to build two blocks of flats approved A hotly debated application to demolish 10 bungalows and build 32 flats has been approved to shouts of "shame on you" from campaigners. Watford Community Housing Trust’s proposal to build new homes in Hemming Way was voted through despite the fact it will “stick out like a sore thumb”. Watford Borough Council planning committee unanimously agreed planning officers recommendation for approval at a meeting....

Updated This is where you can find a pop-up rapid testing site in south Hertfordshire over the next seven days. Credit: PA The new weekly list of rapid testing locations in and around Watford for people with no coronavirus symptoms has been published. Hertfordshire County Council began its roll-out of the rapid testing programme on January 20, with pop-up sites appearing daily across the county. The lateral flow tests available at the testing sites are primarily for key and essential work...

Police are investigating after wine, beer and a bunch of flowers were stolen from a service station.

Planning applications for Watford and surrounding areas This week we have a property requesting permission for an extra tenant and a new home being built in place of an existing outbuilding in Watford. A new barn is also being built at the Old Cattle Shed in Sarragg and Berkhamsted School would like to keep its marquee for extra learning space. Also, the former Chipperfield Garage could be demolished to make way for nine new homes with car parking. Watford 28 King Georges Avenue, Watford WD...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. The Habits We Picked Up After a year in isolation, hobbies turn to habits, and the longer this goes on, the more permanent they become. Lucky Devil Strip Thru (Wesley Lapointe) Updated December 23, 2020 First, it was puzzles. Then it was baking. And then…it got weird. At the start of quarantine, the hobbies we picked up to ...

Hertfordshire Tier 3 rules: Can you travel between Tier 2 and Tier 3? The whole of Hertfordshire is now in Tier 3 Updated The M25 runs through Hertfordshire (Image: Steve Parsons/PA Wire) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services w...

Hertfordshire Tier 3 rules: Can you travel between Tier 3 and Tier 2 areas? Hertfordshire now has different areas in different tiers Updated Staff collect samples at a drive through test centre in Leicester (Image: Joe Giddens/PA Wire) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendat...

TEN YEARS AGO The flames were really close but we werent scared say fire-fighting teens Five teenagers on the way home from school bravely stepped into a fire in Mill End, calling the fire brigade and helping to save pets and residents from the blaze. Kimo Kirvy, 15 and Jack Miles, 16, were walking home with friends Shannon Wheatley, Michael OBrien and Alfie Stringer when they saw the fire in a house in Clarkfield. After alerting the emergency services, Kimo and Jack rushed to the burning...

Hertfordshire Covid map published by the government. Areas of darker colour are where there are more cases Most of south west Hertfordshire will move into tougher tier 3 restrictions from 12.01am on Wednesday after a rise in Covid cases. Health Secretary Matt Hancock delivered the news, which will come as a blow to thousands of people, in the House of Commons today. It forms part of the tier review that was not expected to be announced until Wednesday. But due to a surge of cases in Lo...

Hertfordshire Covid map published by the government. Areas of darker colour are where there are more cases Most of south west Hertfordshire will move into tougher tier 3 restrictions from 12.01am on Wednesday after a rise in Covid cases. Health Secretary Matt Hancock delivered the news, which will come as a blow to thousands of people, in the House of Commons today. It forms part of the tier review that was not expected to be announced until Wednesday. But due to a surge of cases in Lo...