Bilderberg 2013: The sun sets on Watford

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The Guardian - 6/10/13, Charlie Skelton

Cosy elite get-together may never be the same again after Hertfordshire became the focus of world attention

Michael Meacher addresses the fringe crowd.

Michael Meacher addresses the fringe crowd. Photograph: Hannah Borno

The lens caps are back on for another year. The satellite trucks have trundled off, the police patrols have melted away and the security fence has been forklifted off. Bilderberg has left the building and finally the residents of Old Hempstead Road are getting their verge back.

No one who witnessed it will soon forget Bilderberg Watford. Or "Hertfordshire 2013" as the official security lanyards call it, coyly. (The organisers clearly couldn't quite bring themselves to embrace the name Watford – it hasn't got that blue-chip, billionaire ring to it.)

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