More than 15,000 people flocked to Harpenden on Saturday for the annual Food and Drink Festival. Food stalls ran through the High Street and Harpenden Common, offering fresh market-stall produce and an array of street food. Bar areas, ferret racing, outdoor community seating areas, DJs, a live Music Stage and the...
Two years after water voles were reintroduced to the River Ver, the geographical range of the animals has approximately doubled year-on-year. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, in partnership with the Ver Valley Society and a number of private landowners, reintroduced the rare mammal to a stretch of the river west of...
Later this month the 44th Ryder Cup will be held at the Marco Simone Golf Club near Rome. This bi-annual golf tournament between Europe and the United States will attract millions of golf fans the world over – but did you know that it all started here in St Albans? The...
The decision to rescind certain road closure measures in St Albans city centre and implement a third phase of the pedestrianisation experiment has met with mixed reactions from retailers, councillors and residents alike. The trials are a joint initiative between SADC, St Albans BID and HCC, with monitoring and evaluation taking...
The inclusion of Bedmond Lane Wildlife Meadow in SADC’s draft Local Plan would make a mockery of any environmental credentials the council professes to promote, a senior wildlife expert has declared. Matt Dodds, planning and biodiversity manager for Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, has urged the district council to see sense...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: tongue-in-cheek X (formerly Twitter) feed and secret satirist St Albans Voice (Parody). Where do you walk when you want to think? Trent Park in Enfield. It's just up the road...
Walking from Ye Olde Fighting Cocks to St Albans Cathedral and back again is how a 75-year-old former social worker is training for a French Three Peaks Challenge. Miranda Phillips, who survived severe spinal injury, is walking up three mountain peaks in the French Alps to raise money for the Spinal...
St Albans City is one of the country's busiest stations for bike parking - but it also suffers from the highest number of cycle thefts. New research by Direct Line Insurance has revealed bike thefts at UK train stations is up 39 per cent year-on-year, with St Albans City reporting 260...
A community meadow which was home to a huge array of plants and wildlife has been destroyed by council contractors. Martyr mini meadow – between Creighton Avenue and Martyr Close in Cottonmill – was mown down in error by workers from contractors John O’Connor, leaving volunteers heartbroken. The meadow was created by...
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