When compensation is awarded following a serious injury, it is intended to provide long- term financial support, often for life. However, receiving a lump sum of damages can have unintended consequences, particularly where the injured person relies on, or may need to rely on, means-tested state benefits. A personal injury trust...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, grabs the pepper for some winter warmers.. What could be better for warming the belly and the soul at this chilly and damp time of year than pepper? Fiery but aromatic, punchy but fragrant – it provides a really tasty way...
The de Havilland Aircraft Museum has now reopened following a £30,000 refurbishment of the café and Aeroshop. The café now includes fixtures and fittings from a BAe 146 and Trident, both built at the Hatfield factory, alongside new and enlarged shelving offering improved display of clothing, model kits, books and memorabilia. The...
Hi, I’m Harry. I’m an entrepreneur who cares fanatically about education and co-founder of The Degree Gap, an award-winning tutoring company specialising in the British curriculum. Over the past few years, we have grown into a team of more than 100 tutors. Each one is chosen not just for strong...
It’s a cold and miserable January - in case you hadn’t noticed - but the cockles of your heart can be warm again as we take a look at what is going on in the city centre to keep people safe and well. Cue primary school assembly banger ‘Would You Walk...
Markyate Scout Group is at risk of imminent closure unless volunteers come forwards to take over as leaders. After an extensive appeal for help, only one person has come forwards, and that was to run the Beavers. Secretary Kyle Gamble said: “We have been trying for the best part of a year...
St Albans City 2 Cray Wanderers 3 (Isthmian League Premier Division)From Jess Unwin at Clarence Park, photos by Jim Standen. A third defeat in a row, leaving St Albans City 12 points behind the play-off places, prompted Saints manager Gary McCann to concede that promotion back to the National League South...
Community campaign group Keep Chiswell Green has lodged a High Court claim challenging SADC’s decision to grant planning permission for 191 homes in the village. The development is part of a site on land south-west of Chiswell Green Lane which already has outline planning permission for up to 391 homes, a...
A new exhibition looking at Harpenden's role during the Great War opens in the town's museum this week for a three-month run. Harpenden was a vital training ground for thousands of troops during the conflict, with more than 4,ooo soldiers from the Sherwood Forresters billeted locally from August 1914. Harpenden Common saw...
St Albans Abbey Theatre’s Company of Teens will be bringing fresh urgency and youthful power to a subversive retelling of a classical Greek myth. Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad revisits Homer’s Odyssey from the perspective of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, alongside the chorus of her maids whose fate has long been relegated...
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