With nominations flying in for the second Ember Designs Eco Award of the year, the judges have claimed it was the toughest decision to date. After much deliberation, congratulations go to Anna Barrett, eco-lead of the United Reform Church in Chiswell Green. Anna is a tireless champion for all things ‘green’ and...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, celebrates the cooking opportunities from her best frond...
Football icon Mick Harford, one of the fastest bowlers in the history of cricket Jeff Thomson, and EastEnders' Max Branning, aka Jake Wood, will be taking part in a special signing event as part of The Maltings Shopping Centre's Summer Sounds. The free evening of music, food, drink and entertainment takes...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: St Albans singer-songwriter Grace George, who has enjoyed in excess of 30 million streams on Spotify in the past three years alone. Her music has featured on reality...
For more than 60 years, the St Albans International Organ Festival has been known in organ networks as "the friendly festival". Partly this is because the competitors bind together to form a mutually supportive community – celebrating each other's successes, and commiserating others when they have not been selected by the...
It’s fair to say that there’s nowhere else in the world where you can watch two giant eyeballs parading through a city centre alongside a cohort of Roman legionnaires, two giant birds of prey and assorted local dignitaries. The event is, of course, St Albans’ annual Alban Day, which honours the...
St Albans got a little cleaner – and a lot more fun – thanks to a fantastic community effort led by local councillor Matt Fisher and some enthusiastic St Albans Beavers. Cllr Fisher rolled up on the Greener Together-provided cargo E-bike, fully loaded with litter-picking hoops and bags, ready for action....
Almost 50 women from Soroptimist women's groups across the London Chilterns Region gathered in Redbourn Parish Centre for their summer conference, hosted by the St Albans and District Soroptimist Club. Regional President Kate Belinis’ theme for 2024/25 is ‘Impactful Women’ and the event also marked World Environment Day with the 2025...
A motion which could have restricted the scrutiny of planning applications at SADC has failed to succeed. A group of Lib Dems including Cllrs Edgar Hill, Jamie Day, Sharon Hollingsworth and Josie Madoc wanted to limit both the number of councillors who could speak at the planning policy and climate committee,...
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