What is adverse possession? Adverse possession is a method of acquiring legal title to land by occupying it without the permission of the legal owner. It is also used by landowners seeking to remedy their boundaries where legal title does not match up with the land occupied. This is particularly common with...
A football project in St Albans is empowering women in incredible ways. Empower, held at Cottonmill Community and Cycling Centre (playing pitch) and Cotlandswick in London Colney, aims to improve confidence and fitness as well as cultivate camaraderie and friendship and 112 women have taken part so far. The group for women...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, explores the benefits of adding more grains to your diet...
The first full moon of 2025 - the so-called ‘wolf moon’ - coincided with the inaugural event of St Albans Cathedral’s season of lunar-themed events. A yoga class hosted by Ali Parker saw participants build up to the half-moon pose under artist Luke Jerram’s huge Moon installation suspended in the Nave. Yoga...
More than 100 young people from Scout and Guide groups across the district are coming to the end of rehearsals for this year’s St Albans Gang Show. The all-singing and all-dancing extravaganza comes to the Alban Arena between February 12-15, and features many much-loved musical numbers interspersed with short comedy sketches...
Rev Peter Crumpler, associate minister at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville, welcomes the distraction of some new stamps...
To use a football analogy, any decision on the St Albans Local Plan are now firmly in the hands of the VAR, rather than SADC referees. In fact, council leader Cllr Paul de Kort is clear that whatever happens now won’t be politically motivated at all, at least during the examination...
An abandoned skip overflows with festering fly-tipped rubbish, mattresses and car parts litter a roadside ditch, a disused community centre rots away over a decade after it should have been demolished, unwanted garages provide a breeding ground for anti-social behaviour, and a broken estate wall remains unrepaired years after it...
Behind a nondescript door along St Albans’ London Road is an Aladdin’s cave for axemen, strummers, pickers and shredders - or guitarists to you and me. Located in a windowless basement room, The 58 Sound offers vintage and rare pre-owned guitars to those people who know their Les Pauls from their...
Contribute
You can help keep quality local journalism alive by making a one-off donation or set up a regular direct debit. Any contributions will help ensure the long-term future of the St Albans Times.
