It might only be October, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to pick up your calendar for the coming year. And if you’re looking for something with a local focus, there are two very different offerings on the marketplace. The first is from award-winning Harpenden photographer Steve Collins, and features his...
Are SADC’s food hygiene inspectors being unduly harsh on our beleaguered hospitality industry? The past year has seen several businesses awarded potentially devastating Food Hygiene Ratings, only for these to be reversed following a re-inspection just weeks later. An inspection of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in March resulted in a score of...
In June 1948, despite post-war austerity and the continuation of rationing, St Albans held its Millenary Pageant, marking the thousandth anniversary of the founding of three churches, a school and the market. In the midst of Verulamium Park, scenes were re-enacted from key moments in St Albans’ rich history, including one...
Are you one of those shoppers in St Albans and Harpenden who have become increasingly frustrated by the lack of human beings serving at supermarkets as do-it-yourself checkout points seem to be taking over? With the majority of the person-operated tills in Marks & Spencer’s St Peter’s Street store recently replaced...
Things certainly aren’t standing still for OVO’s founder and artistic director Adam Nichols. No sooner has the curtain fallen on this year’s Roman Theatre Festival than he faces a more practical challenge in having to secure planning permission for their new theatre site. The company is bidding to transform the Grade...
Hundreds of parents across the district have signed a pledge promising not to buy their children a smartphone until they are in Year 9, as the Smartphone Free Childhood campaign moves into a new phase. Top of the list for the district, and second in the whole of Herts, is the...
To mark the 90th anniversary of Verulamium Park and Lake, Dr Robert Wareing, who regularly walks the park with his wife Linda, has undertaken a labour of love to research its history and to celebrate its place in the heart of St Albans residents. Significant challenges face Verulamium Park and lake....
“You want to see a magic trick now don’t you?” When it came to preparing for an interview with the headmaster of one of the district’s leading independent prep schools, witnessing slight-of-hand, close-up magic was never on my agenda. But Christian Pritchard, recently celebrating his first year overseeing Beechwood Park School...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, looks for new ways to use her bumper crop of apples...
The Friends of Jersey Lane, formed 18 months ago, and attracting an ever-growing membership, is looking forward to its AGM at 7.30 pm on Tuesday October 29 at Jersey Farm Community Centre, writes Andrew Boxer. The meeting will welcome a guest speaker from Sustainability St. and refreshments will be available. Members...
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