17 Oct 2023 ‘Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits?’
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, devises some innovative ways to dispose of her excess apples...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, devises some innovative ways to dispose of her excess apples...
Welcome to the new Maltings car park entrance! The main entrance in Victoria Street has reopened after a five-week refurbishment.Improvements include wider lanes, upgraded brighter lighting and renewed road surfaces.The refurbishments are designed to make the entrance easier to use and offer enhanced parking in St Albans city centre.Maltings Shopping...
A new exhibition at St Albans Museum tells the story of Fleetville’s Ballington Hosiery Mill, which manufactured everything from delicate stockings to robust artillery shells between the 1920s and the 1960s. The name Ballito is believed to have originated from the company’s first hosiery mill in Ballington, Tennessee. In the early...
St Albans grassroots venue The Pioneer Club recently hosted its first major event in partnership with Headliner Spaces, with a show-stopping performance from multi-award-winning UK drum and bass outfit Rudimental. The event was the first of its kind to take place at The Pioneer Club since Headliner Space and St Albans...
Rev Peter Crumpler, associate minister at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville, looks at the power of the written word. Sometimes, something you say or write can have a greater impact than you expected. Last time I wrote for the St Albans Times, I asked whether St Albans and Harpenden were good...
Jez is a man of many talents. Not only does he have the ability to pick out the perfect pair of frames for pretty much every customer who comes into the shop and own the most spectacle related shirts available, he also designs and oversees the production of our own...
The only children’s contact centre in St Albans is pleading for a volunteer administrator to come forward in order to avoid closing. The service, run from a Scout hall on Oysterfields, facilitates non-resident parent and child meet-up sessions on the first and third Saturday of each month. There could be a number...
Villagers are up in arms over the loss of a crucial bus service they relied on for access to key local facilities. The axing of the Centrebus 366 service from Luton to Hatfield via Welwyn Garden City has been keenly felt in Harpenden, Batford and Wheathampstead where many residents relied on...
Officers investigating a stabbing near Oaklands College in St Albans have now charged and remanded a teenager in connection with the incident. A 17-year-old boy from Hatfield was today charged with two counts of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm and for being in possession of cannabis. An incident involving...
Oliver Zissman, co-owner of Leafy in St Albans, explains why he thinks we should be openly discussing the actions of Hamas. The recent events involving Hamas - the terrorist group - and Israel have once again drawn the world's attention to the longstanding and complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While international media has...
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