The first signs of the budget-balancing challenge faced by St Albans district council in the coming year have been revealed. Wednesday’s meeting of the housing and inclusion committee highlighted SADC’s financial position for 2024/25 and prospects for budget setting for 2025/26. It is the first opportunity for a council committee to consider...
A stunning crochet poppy wreath has brightened up St Albans Abbey Station to mark Remembrance Day. It came about thanks to a partnership between Leeanna’s Wish Create & Craft Group and the Abbey Line Community Rail Partnership. A dozen community members of all ages have spent the past month crocheting individual poppies...
Local business leaders have responded negatively to the Budget, fearing its impact on companies already struggling to survive. Steve Bedford, executive director and business advisor for STANTA (St Albans Enterprise Agency), said it looked like a gamble. “The gamble is that investment in public sector projects will stimulate growth in the private...
The inaugural Alban Film Week - a collaboration between St Albans Cathedral and St Albans Film Festival - packed in cinema-loving fans for a host of different events. Highlights included Wallace and Gromit model-making workshops, Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell taking part in a Q&A after a screening...
Local Lib Dem MPs Daisy Cooper and Victoria Collins joined campaigners at St Albans City Station on their way to the March for Clean Water on Sunday. They were joining thousands of other demonstrators all dressed in blue, marching for clean water from the Albert Embankment to Parliament Square in London. The...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, reveals her ever-changing recipe for stuffed butternut squash...
There remains a great deal of uncertainty surround the new Government’s support of local councils, despite promises in the Autumn Statement. SADC leader Cllr Paul de Kort said he is still waiting for the details of many of the announcements before he can say whether the council will be better off...
High Sheriff of Hertfordshire Annie Brewster has been presented with the prestigious Paul Harris Award by St Albans Rotary Verulamium Club. Named after Rotary’s founder, the award was created to recognise individuals who have significantly contributed to helping communities, supporting charities, and furthering Rotary's efforts to eradicate poverty. It is rarely awarded...
Every year in November, the country pauses and takes a moment to remember our war dead. And while crowds gather around St Peter’s Church War Memorial, poppies are also quietly placed on small, but equally significant, memorials in the streets of St Albans Abbey Parish. Because from this parish, over...
St Albans MP Daisy Cooper has urged the Government to make sweeping changes in its proposed Planning and Infrastructure Bill. “First and foremost, I want to see local authorities given the powers and resources to force big developers to build infrastructure before or at the same rate as they build houses....
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