The Victoria Street entrance to The Maltings Shopping Centre car park has been temporarily closed while a major refurbishment project is carried out.Improvements include wider lanes, upgraded lighting and renewed road surfaces. The refurbishments are designed to make the entrance easier to use and offer enhanced parking in St Albans...
More than 550 people have signed a petition calling for the reopening of public toilets in Verulamium Park instigated by nearby pub Ye Olde Fighting Cocks. The loos closed last year, and SADC plans for a Community Toilet Scheme have yet to emerge. YOFC say the closure is placing a burden...
A father and son acoustic guitar combo are performing a free gig to encourage more customers to visit their local. Mark Lomax and dad Paul - who perform as Lomax and Lomax - are playing at The Rat’s Castle in Fleetville on Saturday from 8pm. Mark explained why they agreed to perform:...
Welcome to this week’s Wine Times which is dedicated to celebrating the fantastic wines from Bordeaux. I must admit though, it wasn’t my idea! Penny Edwards and her team at Cellar Door Wines are helping customers to discover Bordeaux wines throughput the whole of September and very kindly sent me a...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This time: canine coach Lisa Sinnott of St Paws Training Academy. What was your first job? My first job was in a hairdressers washing hair at 15 on a Saturday! It was...
Skilled local drone pilot - and regular contributor to the St Albans Times - Andy Lawrence has captured this bird's eye view of Pub in the Park. He took the images on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, when crowds at the Verulamium Park event were enjoying the September sunshine. ...
James Cameron discovers a new initiative to support the city’s restaurant trade...
The festival season reached a fitting finale this weekend with the return of Pub in the Park St Albans. The annual celebration of food, drink and music was hosted by celebrity chefs Tom Kerridge and Ainsley Harriott, and featured performances from the likes of Rudimental, Craig David and UB40 featuring Ali...
A push to expand London Luton Airport to become at least as big as Gatwick has been opposed by a community group. The Harpenden Society has set out its objections to plans for LLA to increase its capacity from 18m to 32 million passengers per annum (ppa) - just under the...
Residents living on the Verulam Estate are suffering a ‘double whammy’ of misery courtesy of St Albans district council. Everyone needs nature. And people know what’s fair, what’s just and what’s right. Significant encroachments on green space proposed, prompted (and not prevented) by SADC are abhorrent to every right-minded person living...
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