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The Watford Observer has again linked up with its friends at Watford Museum to look back at structures, objects or businesses from the town’s past that have either disappeared or been relocated and this week we recall a parade of shops that overhung a …
Britain’s first motorway service station[1] opened in November 1959 to much fanfare – and hesitation. As car-fever was at its peak in the UK, and after much to-ing and fro-ing from planning to completion, names such as Watford, a local village not…
Watford Gap: M1 services that hosted Stones and Beatles faces demolitionUK’s oldest service station, which Jimi Hendrix mistook for a nightclub, to be replaced by EV-friendly developmentIt has been a place of dubious welcome for countless drivers and …
Britain’s oldest and most historic motorway service station faces demolition under plans to build a low-carbon replacement that can cope with electric vehicle drivers.Watford Gap Services on the M1, which was Britain’s first service station when i…
Commuters walk past a shuttered entrance to Victoria Underground Station (Justin Tallis / AFP via Getty Images)Next week will see a number of Underground lines[1] closed for several hours.The move is expected to cause major disruption[2] to passengers …
Developers who want to turn a remote pub into a house have submitted a planning application – just months after a council blocked their previous effort. The Old Fox near Garston closed in 2017 and has been shut ever since, according to documents handed…
A person has been taken to hospital after flat bed lorry has collided into a pub in Colney Heath. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning (October 31) when Herts Police were called at 4am to a report of collision on the High Street in Colney Heath.
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A woman has died after a van and lorry collided on the A5 Watling Road in Northamptonshire. The incident happened near the village of Watford yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, October 24).
According to Northamptonshire Police, at about 2.20pm, the driver o…
A woman sadly died following a collision on the A5 in Northamptonshire between Watford Gap and Crick. (Photo: Google)
A woman in her 60s died at the scene of a fatal collision on the A5 in Northamptonshire, police have confirmed.
The incident happe…
A near £1bn funding pot for expanding the UK’s rapid charging facilities on motorways and A-roads remains unallocated more than three years after it was first announced.
Some industry stakeholders have said that support is vital to accelerate charging…