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Saturday morning youth sport doesn't just involve kicking balls around a pitch! St Albans Cycle Hub hosts Verulam Cycle Club's youth training sessions every Saturday morning. Professionally qualified instructors Davinder and Rachael train youth members in the bike skills involved in cyclocross, an off-road circuit racing event involving riding on grass,...

A long-running campaign to secure a 3G sports pitch at a Harpenden secondary school reached fruition with the official opening of the facility last week. The Katherine Warington School Community Pitch was opened by special guests Mick Harford, the former Luton Town FC player, manager and ex-England international, Annie Brewster, who...

We’re not going to go down the Blue Monday route. Although we have some great blue frames in store at the moment if they’re your thing. Yellow Tuesday – well, it’s a bit tenuous but seeing as our other title was ‘EYES on another collaboration’ we thought we’d mix things up a...

There’s something quintessentially English about sipping Earl Grey and nibbling on finger sandwiches in the environs of a village tearoom, and the same could also be said about Nigel Gardner. The Conservative Party’s Parliamentary candidate for the newly created constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted has an intrinsic quirkiness and flamboyance about...

One year ago this week, a group of concerned residents held a public meeting to discuss plans by Herts county council to sell 300 acres of valuable Green Belt land south of St Albans to developers proposing to build a huge rail freight terminal. Even though planning permission had been granted...

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