A photo taken by a line officer at St Albans City Station has been shortlisted for the national Community Rail Awards photo competition. The picture by Andy Buckley was submitted on behalf of the Friends of St Albans City Station'and titled 'Community + Rail Set in stone'. It shows a community mosaic...
The grounds of Oaklands College's Smallford campus have become the third parkrun location in St Albans - with the first event taking place last Saturday. More than 250 runners, walkers and volunteers took park in the first 5K parkrun with the free community event set to take place every week going...
The construction of a new hospital on the site of Watford General Hospital is not expected to start until between 2032 to 2034. The new Labour Government has announced that the New Hospitals Programme, one of the flagship policies of their Tory predecessors, will now be substantially delayed. The annual report of...
Stark images of rough sleepers and people living in abject poverty have gone on display at St Albans Museum + Gallery. Photographer Marc Davenant spent six years compiling the challenging and compelling stories of people with lived experience of homelessness and substandard housing in black and white images. Now his work has...
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...
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