As the leaves turn golden and the air grows crisp, our palates naturally gravitate towards the rich, warming embrace of autumnal red wines. This season, it’s all about savouring the deep, complex flavours that mirror the changing landscape around us. From the robust and spicy to the smooth and velvety, autumnal...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Mix 92.6FM presenter Ruth Cooper-Dickson. Ruth presents the Mix Breakfast show on a Monday morning (6am-9am) and reports on wellbeing events and themes for the Morning Show. Where do...
For the first time, St Albans Pub in the Park is offering festival-goers the chance to get up close and personal to their music icons. Anyone who buys a general admission ticket for the event at Verulamium Park on September 5-7 2025 can upgrade their ticket to a pit pass which...
The Big St Albans Sleep Out took place at Oaklands College last Friday. One family have made the event an annual tradition to remember how homeless charity Emmaus helped a friend. Dad, Damian GaskIn, tells their story. The first time we slept rough for the St Albans Sleep Out, my sons...
Three years after losing his dad after a short battle with depression, a St Albans runner is aiming to complete a gruelling seven marathons in seven days in support of Mind, a mental health charity. Tom Toyer, 29, a quantity surveyor for a local construction company, is marking the anniversary by...
The Tesco festive advertisement filmed in St Albans' Market Place back in September is now available to view. As reported by the St Albans Times, The Boot pub was transformed into The Gingerbread Arms, complete with fake snow and gingerbread boardings, a Christmas tree was erected outside Christopher Place, and shop...
Harpenden held its own moving Remembrance Sunday service, attended by service personnel, voluntary organisations and representatives from the town and county councils. Recently elected MP Victoria Collins attended her first service in the role, joining dignitaries in the parade through the centre of town from the entrance to Rothamsted Park up...
The appeal by developers against the refusal of planning permission to build 95 houses on Green Belt land in Park Street has been allowed by the Planning Inspector. The public inquiry over the proposals, which are for land opposite the BP garage, ran for five days in September with community group...
St Peter's Street fell silent as district dignitaries, service personnel and members of the public paid tribute to the fallen in conflicts spanning more than a century. In the year which marks the 110th anniversary of the start of World War One, there was an added poignancy to the already moving...
A cross-generational dance partnership is wowing audiences across the district. Keely Rolls, 40, and her nan Mary, 83, have teamed up to present a tap dancing routine with a difference – they’re both sitting down. Keely explained: “My nan and I share this incredible bond and a love for dance. My nan's...
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