A crusading councillor is leading a campaign against the scourge of fly-tipping in a bid to make the whole community take responsibility for the problem. Dr Allison Wren, who represents Harpenden North and Rural on St Albans district council, is also the lead councillor with responsibility for waste, and has spent...
James Cameron checks out the new bistro everybody's been talking about...
Little did Mandy Gray realise that days after saying a final farewell to her beloved mother she would be facing the prospect of bidding goodbye to her home of 56 years. Council bosses want to move the disabled tenant out of her modified two-bedroom house in Howland Garth and into a...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has been juggling visits to A&E with trying to run her own business...
Shocking new revelations uncovered by St Albans MP Daisy Cooper suggest a lack of action by Herts county council to oppose the controversial rail freight depot. It is feared the proposal, for Radlett Airfield near Park Street, will not only devastate Green Belt land, but will choke local roads with thousands...
It's the final chance for residents of Chiswell Green to have their say and prevent a staggering 721 new homes from being built on their doorsteps. Developers want to stick the housing on Green Belt land at St Stephen's Farm and south of Chiswell Green Lane, adding 1,800 new residents to...
The government has failed to support the hospitality industry in its latest Budget, a St Albans publican has claimed. Sean Hughes, landlord of The Boot and Dylan’s, and co-founder of the Save St Albans Pubs campaign group, says local venues are actually far worse off after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring statement. “The...
A leading planning lawyer has told Herts county councillors they do not have to sell the former Radlett airfield site for redevelopment as a rail freight terminal. The advice, from Paul Brown KC, says HC needs “good reasons” to halt the sale – one of which is if the original planning...
Along Hatfield Road there are two metal mile posts, advising the distances to Hatfield and Reading. Supplying the mileage to Hatfield and Watford is understandable, but why Reading? And what has it to do with the recreation of the well-to-do in the 18th century? For the wealthy elite of society back...
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