Forget about England's impending Euros final, there's a local team who are worthy of celebrating for their own finals achievement. Fleetville Junior School's girls' football team excelled in the Premier League Primary Stars competition, a primary school education programme which uses the appeal of football to inspire children aged five to...
It's the news hundreds of people across St Albans have been waiting for - leukaemia patient Ben Collins has received the bone marrow transplant he so desperately needed to save his life. But it was a tense and complicated process, as the vital treatment relied on another donor from Germany -...
Council bosses are ploughing ahead with their plans for a seven-day markets operation in St Albans city centre, despite strong opposition from local businesses. The council wants to provide pitches for at least 10 stalls every day throughout the week, operating as additional markets instead of stand-alone street traders. But questions have...
Looking at the national picture following the General Election, we were keen to understand what the St Albans and Harpenden candidates make of the current state of British politics, and what they think will happen to the Conservative Party in the wake of its devastating defeat. St Albans Tory candidate James...
So Labour wins, with the largest Labour majority since 1997, 64 per cent of seats, but a vote share of only 34 per cent, less than Corbyn in 2017. The electors defenestrated the Tories, turning to the protest parties, Reform and the Lib Dems. However, with 121 seats, the Tories remain...
An effective retirement plan can help you accumulate wealth tax-efficiently, and ensure you are in the best possible shape for retirement. But there are pitfalls to watch out for. Martin Cotter, managing director of Lumin Wealth, highlights some common retirement mistakes. Savers are often tempted to manage a retirement/investment plan themselves,...
Is it time for the UK to change the way people vote in General Elections? Under the existing First Past the Post system, the candidate with the largest number of votes in a constituency is elected as MP. This means that even if millions of voters support the same party across the...
Hollywood came to The Company of Ten on Thursday in the shape of A-lister Simon Pegg. The Mission Impossible and Star Trek star popped in to say hello when he dropped off a family member who was supporting one the Company's Festival of New Writing shows last night. The two-week-long, one-act feast...
The first time I saw up-and-coming St Albans actor Asha Banks performing publicly was at a late-night Christmas market, when she was belting out ‘Let It Go’ on repeat outside Christopher Place. “That's so funny,” she says when I remind her. “It was Martin [Robinson] from the Fighting Cocks on the...
The ballot papers have been stored away, the Champagne bottles and campaign posters are in the recycling and sleep-deprived supporters, volunteers, council officers, journalists and candidates are starting to feel normal again after a weekend spent recovering from the overnight count. So what now? With Daisy Cooper and Victoria Collins having...
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