Pop quiz… Which actor links three of this season’s most high-profile movies: Digger, Ghosts: The Possession of Button House and Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint? The answer is actually St Albans’ own Annette Holland, co-founder of Best Theatre Arts drama school and boasting a CV that includes Grange Hill, The Bill and...
There was a lot of love all over the place in 1977. Not just in Donna Summer’s no.1 hit I Feel Love, but thanks to the Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee. To the delight of workers and school children alike, Tuesday June 7 was an extra bank holiday. In St Albans,...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has some cookery shortcuts which won’t add to your food waste...
While 700 prisoners across the UK were released from prison last week, a St Albans man was jailed for 13 weeks for stealing £138 worth of food from Aldi. Not everybody who helps themselves to supermarket produce is doing so because they are hungry, but food poverty is real and is...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has plenty of poultry plans for her dinner table...
After reading a LinkedIn post by local business leader Peter Barker about his “portfolio career”, Laura Bill was inspired to find out more about what it involves and the challenges of this phenomenon, only to realise it was also her own journey over the course of her working life...
Panto season has come round very fast and some of the cast of Evolution’s Beauty and the Beast are at the Alban Arena desperate to meet me, including former EastEnder Joe Swash and new pantomime dame Michael J Batchelor. Having barely finished my Gregg’s Vegan Roll, I find myself dazzled by...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has plans for her garden grapes...
Let’s face it, the Seventies were nothing if not eventful. It was a period of strikes, power cuts and economic upheaval. Even the Beatles shocked the nation with their break-up. But despite industrial action, power cuts causing three-day weeks, high inflation and trouble kicking off in various parts of the world,...
Newcomers to Harpenden might be surprised to hear that the town once sustained its own thriving free newspaper, providing grassroots journalism which challenged the dominance of the Herts Advertiser and other paid-for titles like the Luton News. Based on Church Green, The Harpenden Free Press provided vital social commentary, and detailed...
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