Summer months are filled with festivals, exhibitions, shows and seasonal celebrations for all ages to enjoy, plus parents need not fret as historical and contemporary attractions such as St Albans Museums and St Albans Cathedral offer enticing programmes to keep the whole family entertained – including lots of free things...
Harpenden Photographic Society has announced the winner of its biggest annual accolade. The society, now in its 88th year, holds five internal competitions throughout the season, where HPS members enter colour prints, monochrome prints or digital projected images (DPI). The top scoring images in each competition, as determined by an external judge,...
Forget No Mow May, we’re now in July and the state of grass verges across the district leaves much to be desired. When the district council was forced to make harsh decisions to balance its budget earlier this year, these included various items relating to parks and green spaces. Cost-saving measures included...
The St Albans Tour Guides welcomed the Mayor of St Albans, Cllr Jamie Day, and the Deputy Mayor, Cllr Jenni Murray, to a dinner celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tour Guides Association. The organisers of the 1964 St Albans Festival decided to recruit volunteers to help show visitors...
Pounding the streets, knocking on doors and engaging with the voting public is an essential part of most candidates’ election campaign… From the moment Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the date of the General Election, political parties of all persuasion have been actively targeting constituents in a bid to sway their...
Campaigners fighting the proposed rail freight terminal on Green Belt land in St Albans will decide later this week whether to lodge an appeal against a High Court decision that denied their application for a judicial review into the way the land was sold by Herts county council. "We still believe...
It was the culmination of two years' hard work, a fashion show "full of confidence, sass and style" which saw Oaklands College highlight the talents of its fashion, art and design students to an audience of more than 300 people. Students had produced collections inspired by sustainability and ethical and social...
Following on from the Harpenden hustings, and with tongue still planted firmly in cheek, we’re back to see what happened at the St Albans Cathedral event...
The issue of on-street parking around the city centre continues to fuel controversy as a public consultation exercise enters its last week. As previously reported in the St Albans Times, residents living in Victoria Street (pictured) and Lattimore Road fear the replacement of single yellow lines with doubles will prevent them...
Our very own River Ver took part in the Restore Nature Now demonstration in London on Saturday. The banner, to represent our local chalk streams, was made by St Albans Extinction Rebellion, who joined with other environmental groups from the district, including the River Ver Society and Herts and Middlesex Wildlife...
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