More than 500 people personally and a further 1,000 registered online to take part in a Swabbing Day in aid of a sick St Albans man. As first revealed in the St Albans Times, Ben Collins' family and friends organised a Swab Day at Old Verulamiums Rugby Club to help find...
The biggest community event of the year - a huge celebration of the city's patron saint - took place in St Albans on Saturday. For the first time, the Alban Pilgrimage and the Alban Street Festival were held on the same day, providing the perfect opportunity for the whole city to...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, is inspired to embark on a week of research and experimentation. After a recent family trip to London to see a matinée performance of ‘Spirited Away’, we found ourselves wandering the West End streets looking for a place to eat: somewhere...
A.R Gurney's production comes to the Abbey Theatre Studio - Deborah Heath puts pen to paper afterwards...
New Greens’ litter picking success story, the Saturday Pickers has celebrated its first birthday - that’s 52 Saturdays of consecutive rubbish collecting in AL3, and what a difference it has made! The group started when the father and daughter team of Damian and Grace Gaskin embarked on a litter-picking walk, and...
No sooner have they finished their A-levels, but a group of five Sandringham School students are heading off to tackle the Three Peaks Challenge. Oliver Philpot, Harry Cooke, Jack Lambe, Jack Barnett and Jason Tsangari want to bring attention to the fight against prostate cancer. They will start off by climbing Ben...
The environment took centre stage earlier this month as the Alban Arena hosted the district’s first ever Sustainability Festival Expo. The event, which was organised by Sustainable St Albans, hosted more than 40 different sessions in five dedicated ‘zones’, and initial comments are that it lived up to the promise of...
Make it Beautiful Theatre Co present a modern interpretation of the Arthurian tale at the Roman Theatre Festival. Deborah Heath is on a quest to find out more...
A St Albans pub has been exonerated of allegations that two women had their drinks spiked while out on a Friday night early in January. The victims, who we are not identifying, had been watching a friend’s band in The Horn when they apparently collapsed, and needed to be collected by...
Rev Peter Crumpler, associate minister at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville, looks ahead to the imminent General Election. Politicians love to tell bishops and vicars to keep out of politics – unless they’re speaking up to agree with what they are saying. And it’s a brave priest who speaks out in the...
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