Mental Health Awareness Week is an annual initiative highlighting the struggles many people face with their mental wellbeing. but for a group of men in St Albans, taking care of themselves is more than a calendar event, it’s a lifeline, as Anisha Kashim found out...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, is whipping up some of her favourite desserts...
Imagine a device, small enough to hold in the palm of your hand, with no internal power source, yet capable of broadcasting half-way around the globe. Then consider how such a gizmo might have been used during the dark days of the Cold War to reveal international secrets which shaped...
For more than 20 years, the Oaklands Wolves Academy has provided an opportunity for young people of all backgrounds to experience sport at all levels, whether it’s just for enjoyment as a respite from their studies, or as a route to becoming a professional athlete. “We look to create an environment...
A week on from the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we look at how the milestone was celebrated across the St Albans district. As the Clock Tower struck nine o'clock on Thursday morning, St Albans Town Crier Stephen Potter read a proclamation marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe which...
How It’s OK To Say is transforming mental health support in St Albans and beyond...
As the 1960s came to an end, the city of St Albans had yet to see the arrival of any major retail centres, with a compact shopping area boasting a variety of independent outlets and hostelries, a handful of which survive to the present day. There are of course those which...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has been cooking up some classic lamb dishes.. I’ve had a flurry of requests recently for lamb. From the client asking about a casual buffet for a family birthday all the way through to the client looking for an elegant tasting...
On three separate occasions during the 20th century, Verulamium Park played host to epic reenactments of key moments from St Albans’ long history, with members of the public stepping into the roles of kings, queens, bishops, anarchists and martyrs. The city’s first pageant took place in July 1907 and involved 3,000...
It’s Hedgehog Awareness Week between May 4-10 and probably everyone is aware of how Britain’s favourite mammal is in trouble. The hedgehog was red-listed as ‘Vulnerable to Extinction’ in 2020, and their numbers continue to dwindle. In the 1950s there were estimated to be around 50 million hedgehogs in Britain, now...
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