St Albans-based band of brothers Princes to Kings are playing their first hometown headline show at The Pioneer Club in The Suet Yard on Saturday night. The siblings will take to the stage one day after the release of their upcoming EP ‘Too Soon to Cry About’. Over the last few years,...
A grassroots youth football club is on the hunt for sponsorship from local businesses. London Colney YFC has 16 teams across all age groups from U7s to U18s, who compete in both the Watford Friendly League and the Herts County Cup. It is both FA and Herts FA accredited. The club, which...
The Friends of Jersey Lane (FoJL) - a community group established in April - fielded its first volunteer working group last week, as part of its aim to conserve the lane’s natural assets, enhance its biodiversity and support the local Green Space Action Plan. The working group began the process of...
Families will be able to walk through a winter wonderland featuring festive characters, nutcrackers and elves before meeting Father Christmas in his grotto at Willows Activity Farm this festive season. The Santa Spectacular takes place between November 24 and December 24, and every child who meets the man in red will...
Morgan Howell, AKA, Supersizeart, was there for the return of St Albans’ own supergroup...
Councillors have rejected a petition by more than 500 residents to pause the Local Plan process and look again at housing need in a bid to save the Green Belt from development. A meeting of the planning policy and climate committee on Tuesday night called for a halt to the Plan...
This week I ventured into the Larder to catch up with Ed Bevin and find out how things were going in the build up to Christmas. What do you get when you combine cheese, wine, and good company? A perfect pre-Christmas celebration, of course! That’s because Mrs M and I have decided...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This time: ecclesiastical rodent and social media legend the Mouse Bishop of St Albans (@MouseBishop on X/Twitter) Where do you most like to have a picnic in St Albans? Clarence Park, unless...
This week's issue of our fair Times presents something of a milestone for me: it’s column number 20. What a pleasingly round number. When I realised that I’ve preyed upon your patience, dear reader, some 19 times now, I was surprised that I’ve had so much to say. Then I remembered...
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