After 16 years as Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith is preparing to hand over the crozier and begin a new chapter. From village churches and cathedral services to debates in the House of Lords, he has spent more than a decade and a half serving both the local and national...
Representatives of St Albans City Football Club have met with Chiswell Green Residents Association to discuss their ambitions to build a new stadium off Noke Lane. Last night's annual CGRA meeting saw club representatives share their early thoughts on the need for improved facilities and discussed how a new home could...
A leading St Albans-based home-care provider says it has seen a 22 per cent rise in the number of its clients receiving a dementia diagnosis in the last five years. Abbots Care is Hertfordshire County Council's preferred provider for home-care services, and employs 600 care workers to look after 1,300 clients,...
Alongside a Turner Prize winner and nominees, St Albans School of Art saw generations of artists, designers, academics and creatives pass through its doors. Kim Wilde completed a one-year foundation course there before pursuing her music career and English writer, actor and raconteur Quentin Crisp was a life model at the...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Bestselling St Albans author Rachel Wolf (who also writes as Rachel Blok), whose new book Sun Trap has just been published by Head of Zeus as a paperback...
Plans for an intrusive bridge over the railway line at the site of the controversial rail freight development in Park Street have been scrapped. The project's developers Segro applied for a non-material amendment to their original planning permission, replacing the approved tunnel with a storey-high bridge overlooking neighbouring Napsbury Park. In a...
The Smartphone Free Childhood campaign continues to gain momentum with the news that another St Albans school is set to impose a ban on the devices. Fleetville Junior School headteacher Clare Whitehouse made the announcement to parents at the Hatfield Road school this afternoon. This time last year, when the St Albans...
The St Albans branch of Reform UK is looking optimistically towards the future in the wake of their successful polling in the recent county council elections. Although they did not secure any seats, the party came second in the divisions of St Albans East, North and South and St Stephen’s, beating...
(or How to Protect Your Teen’s Eyesight Without Them Noticing - Stealth tactics for parents of GCSE and A-Level warriors) Ah, exam season in St Albans. The scent of blossom in the air, birds singing merrily — and inside every home, a teenager buried under revision notes, blue light blazing from...
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