Counsellor, psychotherapist, coach and clinical supervisor indu Khurana specialises in helping people with long-term health conditions like MS, ME, Lupus and Fibromyalgia - but are these conditions actually increasing and what is being done to help? In 2023, a study based on 22 million people in the UK found that one...
“We’ve always said to the audience, our job is to make you leave with a smile. If we've done that, then we've done our job. If they can get up and dance with their mates, great. If they can sing at the top of their voices even better, it's all...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, is already thinking of ways to tackle her Easter excesses...
Hannah Kokri runs the Herts and Beds branch of Manor Tutoring and is involved in one-to-one SEND support, mentoring and behavioural interventions locally. Here she offers suggestions to parents horrified by the content of Netflix drama Adolescence. Netflix’s Adolescence has certainly hit home. In fact, it seems to have got through...
Judith Waiting, head of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) at Beechwood Park School in Markyate, looks at the lessons we can learn from the hit Netflix drama series. Having recently watched the Stephen Graham drama ‘Adolescence’ on Netflix, although a very difficult watch at times, I have been encouraged by...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has been rooting through her shelves...
As the Smartphone Free Childhood campaign continues to gain pace, Laura Bill looks at steps parents are taking to influence their children’s behaviour...
Baby and child sleep consultant Pav Desai is part of Little Dreams St Albans and Herts Central, using evidence-based and gentle methods to work with tired parents and help everybody get a good night's sleep. Here she looks at how to adjust children's routines when the clocks spring forward on...
City centre pub the Alban’s Well may have become the first casualty of the Government’s onslaught of National Insurance, minimum wage and business rate increases. The Young’s pub first opened its doors on the site of the old BHS department store in April 2021, but will be calling last orders for...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, explores the versatility of the aubergine.. It’s not often that we can draw links between nicotine and vegetables, but in the case of the aubergine, we can, what with it belonging to the tobacco family of plants. Thankfully, this doesn’t mean...
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