There’s a new team at the top of St Albans District Chamber of Commerce. Wagada Digital CEO Cheryl Luzet has been elected President, replacing Pat Strods in the role, with Paul Rosenthal, sales director of Amthal Fire and Security, as her Vice-President. The decision was made at the Chamber’s annual general meeting,...
Friday night saw the Pioneer Club open its doors for Pioneer Presents! - a new event celebrating all that is great about the music hub. Pioneer CEO Danny Clare said: "As a DIY event, we had an open mic, DJs and garden games all lead by trustees and volunteers, with a...
The Harpenden town councillor who oversees the High Street has reassured retailers that HTC is fully behind local businesses following a backlash against the introduction of new parking charges. The St Albans Times first broke the story about SADC’s budget-balancing plans to scrap free parking bays in Harpenden, prompting impassioned responses...
Members of Keep Chiswell Green are mounting an awareness campaign in the centre of the village tomorrow in a bid to highlight the traffic impact of the Cala and Polo developments . On March 22, the Secretary of State approved the appeals by Cala Homes and Headlands Way to build 721...
John Dowdle, the former Watford councillor who has been the prospective Parliamentary candidate for Reform UK in St Albans since early this year, has stepped down from the role. In a statement sent to supporters, he said: "I volunteered to take on the role of St Albans constituency spokesperson about nine...
Greece has a rich viticultural history dating back to around 3,000 BC. However, until the last few decades, its wines were relatively unknown beyond local consumption or tourist enjoyment. Recently, a renaissance has transformed Greek wine. Producers shifted from co-ops to bottling their own wines, using indigenous grape varieties from diverse...
For 20 years, between the 1970s and 1990s, thousands of innocent sick children were pumped with HIV, Hepatitis C and CJD – and it was covered up until this week. In Caroline Thain’s exclusive interview with a St Albans-based campaigner and victim, we reveal how her horrifying story is finally...
Emergency services were called to deal with a gas leak in Harpenden High Street yesterday which resulted in damage to the pavement. The damage was caused by the release of pressure from the leak, which was close to Sainsbury's supermarket in the town.Resident Steve Collins told the St Albans Times: "The...
The big guns of politics are being brought into play in a bid to win the battleground of Harpenden and Berkhamsted as the General Election campaign finally gets underway. Last Friday saw Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden, MP for Durham, visit the town to show his support for Tory prospective Parliamentary...
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