Harpenden Photographic Society’s annual exhibition has been announced for Saturday April 27 at High Street Methodist Church, Harpenden. The event features inspirational work from HPS members, with images including landscapes, macro, street, abstracts and the natural world, and features many award-winning images on display, including prints from the society’s Photographer of...
Local blogger and mum of two Steph Curtis has recently celebrated the launch of her much-anticipated book, ‘PDA in the Family’, about her fight for support for the rare condition Pathological Demand Avoidance. Steph began her blog Steph’s Two Girls 14 years ago, on the day her younger daughter was diagnosed...
St Albans High School for Girls (STAHS) marked the rich diversity of its community in style earlier this month with a week-long celebration of language and culture. Organised by the Modern Foreign Languages Department, the Senior School's Festival of Language and Culture included Spanish and French plays performed by native actors,...
Parents who moved into the catchment area for Beaumont School have been shocked to find the boundaries drastically reduced for next year's intake of secondary school pupils. On instruction from Herts county council, the hugely popular 'Outstanding' school has reduced its intake from eight back down to seven forms following a...
Using up unused annual allowances from previous tax years can provide a healthy boost to your pension. But any remaining annual allowance from 2020/21 must be used before April 6. Martin Cotter, Managing Director of Lumin Wealth, explains more. The standard pension allowance, the maximum amount that can be contributed into...
A new district sustainability and climate crisis strategy which aims to achieve net zero by 2030 needs greater urgency and maximum public engagement to succeed. That is the warning of Green councillor Juliet Voisey in response to the strategy for 2024-2027, which sets out measures to cut harmful emissions and improve...
All the levers on the Liberal Democrat campaign machine are set to full speed ahead, inexorably focused on seizing control of the newly-created constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted by ensuring the election of candidate Victoria Collins as MP. Although a General Election is still potentially months away, the fight for the...
The winter winds blow through the narrow walkways and around the edifices of a deserted Jubilee Square. The familiar security barriers still surround the Victoria Street site, but now the sound of workmen has faded, and the landmark city centre development remains empty, weeks after it was handed over by contractors...
A Harpenden businessman decided to block a major road after another torrential downpour caused further flooding outside his property.Barrie Woolston, who owns Molasses House art gallery in the town’s Station Road, has run out of patience after Herts county council refused to tackle problems with a blocked drain in the...
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