If you were to sit down with a blank sheet of paper to come up with ways of celebrating Christmas, I bet you wouldn’t think of setting fire to a pudding, dressing a portly gentleman in a red suit and bringing a tree into the living room. But then the...
WARNING: This article contains images of surgery some readers may find distressing. “Gentlemen, we have the technology…” TV’s Six Million Dollar Man might have had cybernetic parts implanted into his body, but today’s surgeons are using robots to assist in carrying out operations with a skill and precision impossible to achieve with...
A much-loved toy reindeer which belonged to a brave St Albans teenager before he passed away from cancer has been skilfully restored and given a new home at a local forest school. Bailey “Bay” Hedingham Jones was just four years old when he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma stage 4, a rare...
Laura Bill meets the cast of Cinderella, this year’s St Albans pantomime, as they prepare for opening night on December 12...
A groundbreaking new exhibition promises to cast a light on the Romans’ approach to health and disability and how they compare to modern perceptions. Mapping an Uneven Path at Verulamium Museum explores what good health and healthcare meant to our ancient ancestors, how they understood their bodies and minds, and what...
Riddled across St Albans city centre and further afield is a network of cut-throughs and alleyways providing pedestrian access between roads and estates which you might not realise are there. Of course the most well-known and well-used of our walking and cycling routes is the Alban Way, which connects up various...
On 22nd May, 1455, for a few bloodsoaked hours, St Albans became the most important place in the kingdom. The sound of clashing swords and war cries rang through the town. Our eye witness wrote that “sword wasagainst sword, shield against shield, the wounded with arrows in their throats, the whole...
Life matters, doesn’t it? But surely, so too should death? A new Private Member’s Bill giving some terminally ill adults the right to end their lives prematurely is to be debated in the Commons today. Under the proposed legislation, anyone over 18 (in England or Wales) registered with a GP for at...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has been preparing some delicious and healthy breakfasts...
The Big St Albans Sleep Out took place at Oaklands College last Friday. One family have made the event an annual tradition to remember how homeless charity Emmaus helped a friend. Dad, Damian GaskIn, tells their story. The first time we slept rough for the St Albans Sleep Out, my sons...
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