If you want to make 2025 your year to take up - or improve - your running, then you are living in the right place. St Albans has a plethora of interesting running routes and clubs to help keep you motivated. Here’s our pick of some of the best...
Veganuary has inspired and supported millions of people to try vegan since 2014 – with participants from almost every country in the world - and now Laura Bill is joining their ranks. But what has led her to making this huge step? I’ve always been an animal lover. My dad was....
One day earlier than expected, the Museum of the Moon installation has risen above the pews of St Albans Cathedral. Measuring seven metres in diameter, the Moon features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. The installation by artist Luke Jerram is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound...
The second half of 2024 began with the long-awaited General Election, as St Albans MP Daisy Cooper retained her seat, now joined by fellow Lib Dem Victoria Collins in Harpenden and Berkhamsted, and we followed up the result with in-depth analysis across the political spectrum. We asked whether police were doing...
The St Albans Mummers were back out for Boxing Day, continuing a tradition first performed in 1967. A group of friends from St Albans Morris Men chose a play which had been modified from an earlier text by “Neggy” Wilson, a schoolmaster in the village of Croxley Green, about 50 years...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Mezzo-soprano Deborah Holborn, who performs both fully-staged operas and concert-staged productions of song and oratorio, and is joining St Albans Chamber Opera as the mother in their production...
Word to the wise, trying to take photos while careering around an electric karting circuit and attempting to hold your own against three highly competitive opponents is not going to produce quality images. In fact, the blurry consequences of my efforts are really only worth publishing to highlight just how much...
Mathieu Billecart doesn’t tell you he’s going to be making changes, he makes the changes and then tells you. And that’s very much what he did when I met him for an exclusive masterclass at 67 Pall Mall, in London. In its unwavering pursuit of excellence, Masion Billecart-Salmon has taken...
James Cameron gets his walking boots on to visit the country pub...
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