We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This time: manager of Christopher Place Shopping Centre Catherine Morris. CD, vinyl, download or streaming? Streaming, however one of my biggest regrets is ditching the vinyls and record player when clearing...
We get it. The last thing you’re probably thinking about if you’re off on a holiday flight this month is looking after your eyes. However, there are a few things that you can do that should mean those dry, gritty eyes that you get after flying can be avoided which...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: owner of Leafy in Christopher Place, Oliver Zissman. What's the first thing you do after you've woken up in the morning? That’s normally my six year old coming in waking...
As I write this article I’m sitting at the dining table in a beautiful barn conversion in Devon, listening to the rain hammering off the windows, wishing we’d gone to Spain or somewhere warm and sunny for our summer holidays. Every cloud has a silver lining and this one has Sharpham...
It was a noble vision. A plan to build the world’s largest butterfly house, featuring 10,000 of the creatures fluttering beneath a 300ft dome, promoting an ecological message while also providing St Albans with a major tourist attraction. But despite the backing of conservationists Sir David Attenborough and David Bellamy, and...
St Albans council is taking a 'serious look' at a new strategy aimed at protecting the nation's precious heritage. The Heritage Alliance, England’s coalition of 200 heritage organisations, has published a new manifesto demonstrating how heritage provides solutions to a range of public policy challenges and setting out a vision for...
Sarah Chambers and Alex Assadian look back over 30 years of Open Door with 30 facts you might not know about the facility. 1. In 1992 Kerry Pollard and a team of local church representatives set up a temporary night shelter in Victoria Street, where Open Door began. So successful was...
A popular back street boozer is set to re-open for trading. Community pub The Hare and Hounds in Sopwell Lane, Cottonmill, has been closed for several weeks following the departure of its most recent tenants. Customers have told the St Albans Times they left following an unsustainable increase in their rent, but...
Pub in the Park returns to St Albans' Verulamium Park for another year on September 8-10, and includes a new feature on each menu - the Chef’s Special, a dish that first inspired our chefs or conjures up a personal memory. Whether reimagining a family favourite or taking inspiration from...
Another deadline has come and gone for the city centre's beleaguered Jubilee Square - the development once known as CCOS (City Centre Opportunity Site) South. Having previously been promised for completion last October, then March, and more recently the end of July, it now seems unlikely to be completed until next...
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