Much of the focus of recent months has been the negative impact of the Government’s new house building targets on the St Albans district. Here, Tom Martin, Ambassador for the East of England at Lloyds Banking Group, explains why St Albans actually cannot afford to wait for affordable homes...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, explores the versatility of the aubergine.. It’s not often that we can draw links between nicotine and vegetables, but in the case of the aubergine, we can, what with it belonging to the tobacco family of plants. Thankfully, this doesn’t mean...
St Albans MP Daisy Cooper has invited her fellow Parliamentarians to come to the city and sample its historic Alban Bun. The Alban Bun has been a key feature of Easter celebrations at St Albans Cathedral for 700 years but has only just had what is believed to be its first...
When I first started writing for the St Albans Times back in 2023, my first piece on International Women’s Day featured an interview I held with Penny Edwards, co-owner and director at Cellar Door Wines in St Albans and Hatfield House. Penny has been running Cellar Door Wines since 2017 and...
Hannah Kokri, who runs the Herts and Beds branch of Manor Tutoring and is involved in one-to-one SEND support, mentoring and behavioural interventions locally, looks at the challenges faced by pupils transitioning into secondary school...
Starting out in Camden in 1999, It’s A Sin was reborn in 2022 ,bringing an alternative, indie edge to the eighties night roster - proving not only that the decade’s tunes endure over 40 years later, but that they’re reaching new audiences. And that you don’t have to wear fancy...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Stephen Potter, St Albans Town Crier, city tour guide, Cathedral guide, Roman soldier, ghost walker and Brother Thomas Rockcliffe (originator of the Alban Bun) and Rotarian. He retired...
St Albans Chamber Opera has a truly international cast of soloists for its forthcoming double bill of operas. Singers from Austria, Ukraine, Australia, Armenia, the USA and the UK will be performing Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini at the Abbey Theatre in St Albans from...
An inaugural International Women’s Day event at St Columba’s College focused on the theme of ‘accelerating action’. The event featured St Albans MP Daisy Cooper, owner of the award-winning Dressing Room boutique Deryane Tadd, head of fundraising at cancer charity Look Good Feel Better Nicola Ellul, Kendalls Florist owner Louise Wilkes...
Could families living in affordable homes on one of St Albans’ proposed new housing developments be sitting on a ticking timebomb of flooding? That’s the fear of campaign group CLASH, which has been fighting against the development of north St Albans for around 15 years. As the district Local Plan enters the...
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