05 Dec 2025 Aladdin panto stars prepare for this year’s Alban Arena show
Laura Bill drops in backstage at the Alban Arena for a fly on the wall look at the rehearsals for this year’s panto Aladdin...
Laura Bill drops in backstage at the Alban Arena for a fly on the wall look at the rehearsals for this year’s panto Aladdin...
Local environmental charity Sustainable St Albans recently hosted a momentous weekend at Oaklands College to celebrate a decade of its popular Sustainability Festival. Since its inception as Sustainable St Albans Week back in 2015, the festival has helped create and support dozens of projects within the district whilst also providing exposure...
The Foodies Festival is returning to the St Albans campus of Oaklands College next year, and promises to be bigger and better than ever before. With Pub in the Park no longer happening in Verulamium Park, it looks like the rival event is taking full advantage of its demise and offering...
Thousands of people flocked to Harpenden on Sunday for the town's annual Christmas Carnival. This year's event featured a range of Christmas stalls featuring mulled wine and festival gifts, farmers' market food and drinks, Santa's Grotto, free craft workshops, fairground rides and Young Enterprise stalls set up by local students. Live entertainment...
Deborah Heath catches up with OVO’s artistic director and founder Adam Nichols to talk about future productions and the company’s ongoing campaign for a new theatre in the city. When I last saw Adam Nichols during the Roman Theatre Festival, it was impossible to catch a word. Having recently launched the...
One of the district's most popular Christmas traditions is back for another year as Willows' Activity Farm's legendary Santa Spectacular opens this weekend. From Saturday November through to Christmas Eve, visitors will be able to step through a 'polar portal' and find out whether they're on the naughty or nice list...
It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas in St Albans, as the city enters the festive season in style with its annual street festival spectacular. This year's Christmas Cracker saw St Peter's Street closed to traffic on Sunday for a day of family fun including live music, fairground rides, a...
Following the sudden and disastrous closure of Halloween Haunt Fest in Redbourn, which left a large number of actors and managers unpaid and cost contractors and the Hertfordshire Agricultural Society tens of thousands of pounds, local businesses and volunteers have come together to salvage something positive from the ashes of...
It might have been one of the mildest on record, but that shouldn't take anything away from the achievements of the 150-plus people who took part in this year's St Albans Sleepout. They swapped their beds for cardboard at Oaklands College last Friday night to raise funds and awareness for five...
St Albans City Centre BID is lighting up the city with Christmas decorations and a new family-friendly Bauble Trail. Between November 15 and December 28, families can collect trail maps from the St Albans Museum + Gallery and set off to find 12 colourful Christmas baubles hidden across the city centre....
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