Around 60 adults and kids took part in a charity bootcamp in aid of Bliss, which provides support for premature babies. Vicki Senanayake, who runs Fit With Vic, chose the charity because bootcampers Alyse Hart and Amie Noble had their babies at 24 weeks - twins Polly and Rosie and daughter...
It’s fair to say that St Albans MP Daisy Cooper is a regular at Victoria Street café Baked Nation. I’ve personally met her there on several previous occasions, and she greets the staff by name when stepping out of the chill December morning into the warmth of its cosy environs. Every...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This time: Local Instagram legend and cake decorator I Am The Disco Cake Queen (iamthediscocakequeen) Jessie Grant...
The month January takes its name from the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions. Doorposts and gateways in the ancient world were often carved with his image. It was unmistakable because Janus had two faces, one looking backwards to where you had just come from, the other...
Laura Bill reveals why she’s glad to be bidding farewell to the current year...
With the right planning, and careful use of allowances, a couple can significantly lighten their tax load in retirement, as Lumin’s Managing Director Martin Cotter explains. Most retirees can substantially reduce their tax burden once they stop working. With careful management and disciplined use of allowances a couple could be able...
Whether food, music, arts and culture, comedy or dancing is your passion, St Albans has it all covered with a packed calendar of events and festivals in 2024. Marvel at Peace Doves, an incredible art installation by Peter Walker Sculptor at St Albans Cathedral, in which 10,000 paper doves will hang...
“Sing along with the common people… Sing along and it might just get you through…” Five years ago a collaboration of unrepentant and maturing indie kids decided that what St Albans really needed was a celebration of the music they grew up listening to, from Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine...
Local cycling centre St Albans Cycle Hub will be hosting British Cycling’s Sofa to Saddle training programme in January and February. Led by British Cycling instructors the course will teach cycling skills at the Hub to women who are absolute beginners on bikes or who are returning to cycling. The first sessions...
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