The Company of Ten continues its 90th anniversary season with The Father by Florian Zeller. The play, staged in the intimate setting of the Studio at the Abbey Theatre, is a moving observation of the challenges of dementia. A challenging subject matter, but in the hands of the talented team of...
Indie club night Common People have picked their charity partner for their next event on Saturday October 12 at The Pioneer Club. The night, which started life as a fundraiser, has always donated 10 per cent of proceeds to a local charity and the next event is no exception with the...
Deep in the hallowed halls of Westminster Abbey, alongside kings and queens, scientists and explorers, poets and authors, is the final resting place of an unidentified soldier killed on the battlefields of the First World War. The Unknown Warrior represents the thousands of individuals killed during the conflict, but what do...
“You want to see a magic trick now don’t you?” When it came to preparing for an interview with the headmaster of one of the district’s leading independent prep schools, witnessing slight-of-hand, close-up magic was never on my agenda. But Christian Pritchard, recently celebrating his first year overseeing Beechwood Park School...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, looks for new ways to use her bumper crop of apples...
St Albans publicans have urged MP Daisy Cooper to persuade the new Labour Chancellor to introduce measures in the Autumn Budget which ensure their future survival. More than 40 of the city’s independent watering holes are calling for a 20-year plan for growth, training and prosperity to ensure this quintessential British...
Cllr Matt Cowley, who has been a district councillor for Harpenden South since May 2024, responds to MP Victoria Collins’ comments on the parking controversy in last week’s St Albans Times. The introduction of parking charges by the Liberal Democrats represents the single biggest change – and threat – to Harpenden’s...
Community campaigners presented their case opposing plans to build 95 houses on Green Belt land in Park Street at a five day planning inquiry which ended recently. Appellant Scott Properties employed two barristers, an experienced planning company and a range of consultant companies, including Atkins, to argue why it should be...
Almost half of all council-owned garages are sitting empty – should they be redeveloped for much needed housing? A report to SADC’s housing and inclusion committee highlighted how only 51 per cent of all of the council’s 1,287 garage spaces – which cover more than 100 different locations - was currently...
The district councillor in charge of parking has revealed what measures SADC is proposing to defuse the long-running row over proposals to charge for on-street bays in Harpenden. Cllr Helen Campbell, chair of the public realm committee and lead councillor for parking, contacted the St Albans Times with details being suggested...
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