18 Feb 2026 Food for thoughts
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, explains how adaptability is a key skill in her business...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, explains how adaptability is a key skill in her business...
A St Albans resident whose career has spanned the West End stage, broadcast journalism, military psychology and senior government leadership - all while raising seven children – has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Hertfordshire. Dr Suzy Walton, who is also a Herts alumna with a...
An athletic team of flippers from Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre beat wealth management firm Lumin Group to win the running event at this year's St Albans Pancake Festival. Pipping Meteor Communications to win the walking title were Wagada Digital, led by St Albans Chamber of Commerce President Cheryl Luzet, The Shrove Tuesday...
A year after St Albans district council imposed controversial on-street parking charges across Harpenden town centre, councillors have finally agreed to introduce major changes to help shoppers and retailers alike. Local Liberal Democrats are proposing to create approximately 40 one-hour free on-street parking within minutes of Harpenden High Street, and have...
Harpenden's Deputy Mayor Cllr Kirsti Wenn visited the new First World War exhibition at the town's museum to find out more about the local impact of the conflict. Cllr Wenn said: “The exhibition is a wonderful tour of how WWI impacted Harpenden, something very few of us see when we study...
A determined team of business leaders from across the St Albans district have set off on their trek up Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro to raise much-needed funds for local charity Youth Talk. The group of 24 includes Amthal's Paul and Amanda Rosenthal, former Rumball Sedgewick owner and ex-Chamber of Commerce President Alistair...
St Albans Cathedral’s spectacular Rose Window has come third in a public competition to find the nation’s favourite stained glass window. The Association of English Cathedral’s Divine Light campaign was based on the latest volume by Janet Gough OBE, author, lecturer and advisor on historic churches and cathedrals, which reveals the...
Emma Wiggins from St Albans-based charity The Living Room marks Children of Alcoholics Week We often speak about substance use as an individual crisis. But in reality, it reaches far beyond the person at the centre of it — into homes, relationships, childhoods and communities. That is true nationally, but it is also...
Since they first launched in Japan back in 1996, Pokémon Cards have been omnipresent in capturing the imaginations of ‘trainers’ the world over, writes Sarah Clarke. Whether you collected them as kids, collected them for your kids, or have never owned a card in your life – you’d be hard pushed...
Laura Bill tells candidly of her life-changing autism diagnosis and how she’s now reprocessing a lifetime of experiences...
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