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...
ITV’s popular quiz show, The Chase, recently featured a St Albans blue plaque in a question to contestants. Host Bradley Walsh asked: “A blue plaque unveiled in 2022 in St Albans honoured the priest John Ball for his role in what historical event?” a) War of the Roses b) Magna Carta c) Peasants’ Revolt Both...
Happy New Year from all of us at EYES on St Albans! In that it’s the season of resolutions, we thought we’d add our own little nudge to those of you out there who’ve got prescription glasses – but don’t wear them. Go with us on this one...
The chair of Highfield Park Trust has revealed how the charity has been pushed to its limits in trying to deal with three abandoned horses which have taken up residence in the park. Tim Abbott spoke exclusively to the St Albans Times about the situation, and what efforts are being made...
A St Albans man in recovery from addiction is running a marathon to help give something back to the place that means so much to him. James Telford is competing in this year’s Brighton Marathon in aid of addiction and 12-step based recovery service The Living Room, just off Hatfield Road. James...
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