10. Mary Portas used to live in Bushey.
10. Former children’s laureate Michael Rosen attended Watford Grammar School for Boys in the 1960s.
11. Watford has made huge contributions to the printing industry. Rotary photogravure was a technique which was first used in Watford to reproduce very fine, high quality fine art prints and then it went on to be used to produce colour magazines. All the ladies’ colour magazines, like Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Own, were all printed in Watford, as well as most of the colour supplements for the Sunday newspapers.
12. Melanie C aka Sporty Spice lived in Watford for a spell.
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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 workers, capable of telling them within an hour of their test whether they have Covid or not. With 1 in 3 people with Covid showing no symptoms, the tests are a quick and useful way of finding people who are infectious who don’t realise they are.