In September, we reported how the family of a grandmother killed in a horrific accident still had not had answers over her death.

Gail Miller was crushed by a skip lorry in Watford town centre on March 12.

She would have celebrated her 60th birthday in September but her family were still consumed with grief.

No date for the inquest had been set and Hertfordshire Constabulary had told the family they would not prosecute.

A teenager admitted to making bomb threats to hundreds of schools and a flight travelling from the UK to the USA.

George Duke-Cohan, 19, of Mutchetts Close, Garston, admitted making the hoax bomb threats from behind his computer screen, at a hearing at Luton Magistrates Court.

More than 400 schools across the country were evacuated in March this year, including Stanborough School in Watford and St Albans High School, following an email sent by Duke-Cohan.

Despite being under investigation, the teenager sent another email to schools across the UK and the USA which claimed that pipe bombs had been planted under the premises, in April.

Still under investigation, Duke-Cohan called San Francisco Airport and claimed to be a father whose daughter had called him saying her flight had been hijacked.

A mother-of-two experienced her “worst fear” when someone tried to snatch her two-year-old son from her side in a busy high street.

Kyle Hammond from South Oxhey was having lunch with his family in Watford town centre on September 7 when a stranger grabbed his arm and tried to walk off with him.

A family felt “traumatised and humiliated” after armed police stormed their house and pointed a gun at an eight-year-old boy and his blind father.

Police descended on Raphael Drive, Watford, after a 999 caller claimed three people had entered a house with three firearms.

Inside the house was a family and friends, who could be heard playing music and laughing – but officers ordered them to open up and armed officers flooded in.

A spokesman for Hertfordshire Constabulary said: “No arrests were made and we apologise for any distress."

“A complaint regarding police response has been made and this will be reviewed.”

Motorway service operators Moto rekindled kindled a proposal originally raised in 2015 to build a new motorway service station at Junction 20 of the M25, at Kings Langley.

And queues stretched round the block for the opening of Debenhams in the intu centre in High Street, Watford.

Earlybird Joan Hunt made sure she was at the front after getting there in the early hours.

There was nobody else in sight as she took her place outside Debenhams’ doors, and waited - for six hours.

“I haven’t sat down since I got here,” she said.