We’ve tried to come up with a vision related link to the radio – but sometimes even we’re stumped. Answers on a postcard (or in person) to 63 The Quadrant please…Anyway, if you’ve had the radio on recently, you may well have heard the new advert for Essilor’s Varilux XR...
A much-loved name in fried chicken is coming to St Albans, as Chicken George Jnr prepares to open its first city restaurant in The Maltings Shopping Centre. Their new venue will be on the corner of the centre recently occupied by Locked Rooms - opposite flagship SADC development Jubilee Square. It's a...
One of the district's most popular Christmas traditions is back for another year as Willows' Activity Farm's legendary Santa Spectacular opens this weekend. From Saturday November through to Christmas Eve, visitors will be able to step through a 'polar portal' and find out whether they're on the naughty or nice list...
It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas in St Albans, as the city enters the festive season in style with its annual street festival spectacular. This year's Christmas Cracker saw St Peter's Street closed to traffic on Sunday for a day of family fun including live music, fairground rides, a...
Following the sudden and disastrous closure of Halloween Haunt Fest in Redbourn, which left a large number of actors and managers unpaid and cost contractors and the Hertfordshire Agricultural Society tens of thousands of pounds, local businesses and volunteers have come together to salvage something positive from the ashes of...
St Albans' next Blue Plaque commemorates John Chapple, who saved St Albans Cathedral's tower from collapsing during the Victorian age. It will be installed at 2 Romeland at noon on November 22, the house where Chapple lived during the Cathedral restoration works (1871-1878). The plaque will be unveiled by James Gaffney, who...
The deputy leader of St Albans district council has insisted that imposing parking charges in Harpenden has been seen as a good thing in the town. Speaking at last week’s public realm committee meeting, chair Cllr Helen Campbell, who is also SADC’s lead on parking, responded to suggestions that residents and...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Alex Duggan, a former police officer turned writer, whose new novel Fortunes Fools is the story of two people who win the lottery in 2015, one from St...
It might have been one of the mildest on record, but that shouldn't take anything away from the achievements of the 150-plus people who took part in this year's St Albans Sleepout. They swapped their beds for cardboard at Oaklands College last Friday night to raise funds and awareness for five...
A veteran district councillor has come out in support of the campaign fighting for a parish council representing the city of St Albans and surrounding areas. Cllr Robert Donald has spoken out ahead of a meeting of SADC’s strategy and resources committee next week, which will be considering the results of...
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