This week I’ve been preparing myself for the UK alcohol duty changes coming into effect from 1st August 2023. Here's a breakdown of what you need to know - for still wine with alcohol content between 11.5% and 14.5%, the price for still wine falling within this alcohol range will see...
Imagine if you lived in Tudor St Albans. Would you mourn Henry VIII’s destruction of its Abbey? The loss of centuries of scholarship, as well as its infirmary? The disappearance of the pilgrimage trade which had brought prosperity to the town? Or would you celebrate the new found freedom from the...
A seven-year-old eco-warrior is calling on the district council and its contractors to do their job and clean up the streets where she lives. Grace Gaskin, a pupil at Garden Fields School, has been collecting rubbish in the New Greens area for almost two months, and has recruited an army of...
“We have to be thin but not too thin, and we can never say we want to be thin you have to say you want to be healthy. But also you have to be thin.” – The Barbie Movie (2023). Having seen an ‘are you summer ready?’ type advert locally, we...
Did officers at St Albans district council impose a gagging order on any discussion of a serving Liberal Democrat councillor facing accusations of child sex offences? Disgraced former Sopwell Ward representative Shakir Rahman, 46, of Creighton Avenue, St Albans, has now been convicted of the rape of a child under 13...
Hundreds of classic cars, motorcycles and scooters parked up on Harpenden Common for one of the biggest events in the town's calendar. Highlights of this year's show included a Chevy Bel Air rubbing shoulders with a 1927 Trojan, and a rare 1978 Matra Bagheera with a 1959 Berlinetta. Organised by Rotary in...
A public consultation is underway looking into road safety measures on a stretch of road which has seen various serious accidents in recent years. The scheme, for the St Albans Road in Sandridge around the junction with Sandringham Road, includes a plan to introduce two new split islands, an upgraded refuge...
All aboard! Deborah Heath travels back to the golden age of steam at St Albans Roman Theatre...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, experiments with lavender in a variety of recipes...
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