St Albans-based Let's Dance Academy is celebrating being selected as an affiliate school of The London Ballet Company for the local area. Established in 1968, LDA has grown to become one of the largest schools in Hertfordshire with approximately 450 students attending classes each week. Becky Sherman, who grew up in St...
There may have been more rain than snow, but the magic of Christmas was still evident at Willows Activity Farm’s Santa Spectacular this weekend. Families should put aside a whole day to ensure they make the most of the vast number of festive activities taking place this year, from writing a...
The biggest celebration of live music and quality food to hit St Albans is preparing to return for its fourth triumphant year - with more on offer than ever before. Pub in the Park St Albans will be back in Verulamium Park next September for another mix of celebrity chefs and...
More than 200 festive fundraisers donned Christmas attire and antlers to take to the streets of St Albans for Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care’s annual Rudolph Run on Sunday, There were two routes – 1.5km and 5km - both starting outside the Waterend Barn pub where each runner picked up a...
Audiences will be spending Christmas in Narnia courtesy of The Company of Ten’s yuletide theatre production of C S Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The classic tale of good versus evil is set in a land of ice and snow, cruelly ruled over by the White Witch and...
The sound of revving engines racing through the streets of St Albans is increasingly commonplace these days - with speeding drivers striving to beat the traffic lights or get through roadworks with little thought for pedestrians, cyclists or other motorists. But what, if anything, can be done to stop them? The...
I recently had the pleasure of attending Cellar Door Wines’ Christmas Wine Fair at Hatfield House – and wow, what a festive show it was! Producers, suppliers and the whole Cellar Door team were on hand to guide us all through a broad range of over 150 wines and get...
Singer-songwriter Seb Wesson is returning to The Horn to promote his new album, ‘The Man from the Moon’. The gig is on December 13 and kicks off at 8pm. Having cut his teeth working with UK band Munkster, Seb is also the current guitarist in the band Captain and contributor to projects...
A St Albans business recognised alongside the UK’s most impressive firms is calling on residents to shop local and support Small Business Saturday.Alex and Gavin Bray of Heartwood Glass were named among the nation’s 100 most impressive small business leaders at a reception at the House of Lords this week.Their...
It may have been built in the 1950s, retaining much of that era’s aesthetics, but retailers at St Albans’ popular suburban shopping centre The Quadrant are determined not to remain stuck in the past, but look instead towards the future. They are keen to build on the success of recent ventures,...
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