As people returned to work after the new year in 2019, protesters gathered outside Watford Junction station over rising rail fares.

Rail fares increased by an average of 3.1 per cent as punctuality was at a 13-year low.

Labour' East of England MEP Alex Mayer slammed the £96 Watford to London season ticket rise, saying: “Why should British commuters pay five times as much as other Europeans just to get to work each day?”

Conservative Watford MP Richard Harrington said a new deal promised significant investment and service improvements - 98p in every £1 on rail fares will be invested back into services.

A court heard that a man had shot a doctor in the stomach with a crossbow in an irrational act of revenge for the death of his father.

Mark Waterfall, 46, of Fairhaven Crescent, South Oxhey, had fired the weapon at Dr Gary Griffith at Suthergrey House Medical Centre in St Johns Road, Watford, saying “You killed my father and I am going to kill you.”

Miraculously, the doctor survived because the bolt had to travel through four layers of cotton shirt before it hit him.

And the remains of six people murdered in the Holocaust were laid to rest at Bushey New Cemetery.

The remains, which came from Auschwitz concentration camp, were given to the United Synagogue by the Imperial War Museum after it was sent them in 1997 by a private donor, thought to be a survivor.

The single, small coffin was accompanied to the grave by 50 Holocaust survivors.