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Festival flowers
Elstree will play host to a horticultural heaven on Saturday, when the Town Festival Summer Flower Show will be held at Allum Hall. Organised by the Elstree and Borehamwood Garden Crafts Society, the event always attracts a range of beautiful flowers
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Hertswood to showcase its art talent
Hertswood School students will present an extravaganza of art, dance, drama and music in their Summer Showcase 2004. All kinds of art and a range of performances will be on show at the event on Thursday, July 15 from 7.30pm. So why not go along and
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Firefighters invite you to their 50th birthday party
There will be fun for all the family when Borehamwood Fire Station holds its special 50th Anniversary Open Day on Saturday. Famous movie star Janette Scott opened the station in 1954, making it Britain's most glamourous and unusual station. Since
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Fury at late bid to block skaters
Killjoy neighbours hope to scupper plans for a skateboard park in Borehamwood. A group of people living around Aberford Park, led by Croxdale Road resident Gary Jacobs, are launching a campaign and putting together a petition in a bid to stop a proposed
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Firefighters save house in fat blaze
A Borehamwood family had a lucky escape recently when a chip pan fire threatened to destroy their home. At 4pm on Thursday, June 17, firefighters from Borehamwood and Potters Bar rushed to the terraced house in Buckingham Road. Using breathing apparatus
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Saffron Green is fifty years young
Children celebrated 50 years of Saffron Green School this week with a special fancy dress day and a party. Almost all the pupils and teachers came to school dressed as their favourite characters from books, and enjoyed a fun magic show in the afternoon
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More please!
A fabulous Summerswood school performance of Oliver Twist left impressed parents asking for more. Pupils from the Furzehill Road school's Year five and six classes put on two evening performances of the famous musical last week. Teacher Simon Fell
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New homes will overstretch local services concern
Detailed plans have been put forward for the new estate to be built at the former Lyndhurst School site in Gateshead Road. Developer George Wimpey wants to build 152 new homes on the former school site, including 38 four-bedroom houses, 39 three-bedroom
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New flats plan worries
Two blocks of flats could be built in Radlett creating 65 new homes on a former industrial site. Plans for a new estate of three and four storey apartment blocks in Watling Street have recently been submitted to Hertsmere Borough Council. Buildings
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Shock figures reveal huge rise in violence
The number of violent crimes in Hertfordshire has risen yet again over the last year the latest in a series of big increases since the late 1990s. Unpublished Home Office figures, obtained by a national newspaper this week, confirmed that Hertfordshire
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FLOWER EVENING
An evening flower show featuring roses, sweet peas, delphiniums, raspberries, strawberries and other summer flowers will be held by Radlett Horticultural Society at Newberries School on Thursday, July 1, at 7.30pm. Admission, costing £1, includes a glass
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Angry team pick up the trophy
Twelve teams entered a hard-fought Town Festival five-a-side competition on Sunday at the Hertswood Centre. The winning team, after six hours of matches, was the Angry Beavers who were awarded a trophy by Town Mayor Peter Hedges. Runners-up medals
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Path leads to broken bones
Dangerous cracked pathways in Borehamwood are being left unrepaired while people suffer bone-breaking injuries, it emerged this week. Helena Southward has a titanium plate and ten screws below her knee after falling on the path outside her Ayot Path
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Jabs doctor fights to save reputation
An Elstree doctor who was caught up in an MMR jabs scandal early last year is fighting for his reputation in court. Dr David Pugh ran the Elstree Aeromedical Centre at Elstree Aerodrome, where he charged £70 to administer single jabs for measles, mumps
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Good day for special people
A parents' group campaigning for a new children's centre in Borehamwood held its launch party in Shenley Road at the weekend. The group, called Ohana, hopes to set up a new centre where children of all abilities can learn and play together, and launched
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DANCING CASH
Students from Lynn's School of Dance held a collection during the Elstree and Borehamwood Festival Parade on Saturday and raised £378, which is being donated to the NSPCC.
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Peace in the house
Borehamwood Police, Endemol and Channel 4 are taking steps to ensure there will be no more violent arguments at the Big Brother house at Elstree Studios. Tempers flared at the house in the early hours of Wednesday, June 16, when producers cut the live
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Carers cared for at a party
Carers from the area were rewarded for their hard work at their very own afternoon tea party recently. To celebrate National Carer's Week, and salute the efforts of those who care for family members and friends, a party was organised at Elstree retirement
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Festival parades back to its best
Star Wars Stormtroopers and Doctor Who Daleks invaded Shenley Road on Saturday during the stunning Elstree and Borehamwood Festival Parade. Organiser Paul Welsh, from the town council, said the parade was one of the best yet, with more entries, more
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Everything stops for tea
People working at Hertsmere Borough Council's offices in Borehamwood took a well-deserved tea break recently to raise money for the borough's hospice. Council officers from Hertsmere Borough and the county council's Adult Care Services department took
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Kids enjoy all the fun of the fair
More than one hundred children with special needs from Noah's Ark playscheme were treated to a fun packed day at a funfair in Borehamwood. The trip, organised by Hertsmere Council and childrens' organisation Noah's Ark, took the children and their families
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Hundreds keep up old village tradition
Nearly one thousand people turned out for the annual Shenley Fete and Carnival on Sunday helping to keep alive an old village tradition. The large number of people attending on the day "was absolutely amazing for a village fete", said Shenley Fete and
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Politicians urged to campaign against anti-Semitism
Hertsmere's MP James Clappison recently visited victimised Jewish communities in France, as part of a campaign against anti-Semitism. Mr Clappison visited France on behalf of the Inter-Parliamentary Council against anti-Semitism, alongside the Labour
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NO WASTE
The June 4 story Council's recycling effort is rubbished stated that a waste transfer station had been built in Potters Bar. Hertsmere Council would like to point out that the facility is a depot for dustcarts, and no waste will be processed there.
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GREEN WARNING
A Hertfordshire MP is warning that under new Government planning guidance, land in expensive areas such as Hertfordshire can be taken out of the Green Belt, in exchange for land in other parts of Britain being protected. In a letter to the Campaign to
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Bar Mitzvah boy goes back to his roots
A Borehamwood boy was given a certificate for Jewish Studies by the heritage group JGSGB recently. Joshua Levy from Borehamwood United Synagogue was presented the certificate for his work on the project My Chosen Ancestor. He was one of only two Bar
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CURZON WINNERS
The lucky winners of last week's Borehamwood and Elstree Times Curzon Cinema competition are as follows: Nicola Jarvis of Penscroft Gardens, Borehamwood, Paul Haylock of Hollywood Court, Elstree, Kate Arnold of Tilehouse Close, Borehamwood, Kevin McManus
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Jeff comes up trumps for charity
An Elstree man beat 330 people to win this year's Cancer Research UK Bridge Tournament. Jeff Harris from Elstree and his bridge partner, Ellard Roberts from Oxhey, won the 27th Bridge Tournament organised by the charity, held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel
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Men hater sought
Men in Borehamwood are being warned to look out for an African with a Geordie accent, a bad temper and a dislike of the male sex. Worried Shaun Tierney from Gregson Close lost his African Grey parrot recently, and said the 11inch-long bird, which has
