URL redirects

[Timbow]

I am not getting this to work.
I have an old page with the slug front-page now deleted which needs to be 301 redirected to the root (index) of the site.

Tried all these separately and together at the end of the htaccess and after RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^http://www.stickydate.info/front-page/ http://www.stickydate.info/index.php [R,L]
Redirect 301 /front-page/ http://www.stickydate.info/index.php
RedirectMatch 301 ^/front-page$ http://www.stickydate.info/index
RewriteRule ^/front-page?$ http://www.stickydate.info/index.php [R=301,L]

Is there a foolproof way of redirecting one slug to another?