It’s become a British institution. What better way to start a lazy weekend than sticking on Saturday Kitchen after breakfast, watching Matt Tebbutt banter with celebrity guests while whipping up a culinary feast ahead of the latest omelette challenge. With the show off-air over the summer, Matt has been taking a...
Ginny Cooper, the face of STANTA (St Albans Enterprise Agency) for 24 years, has recently retired from her role. Here she looks back on the highlights of her time working on behalf of the local business community. I am feeling a mixture of excitement and sadness as I will certainly miss...
St Albans Times Theatre reviewer Deborah Heath has had a great summer experiencing the best that the district has to offer, but she recently went a bit further afield to see some of her own writing. She popped up to the Edinburgh Fringe for the day to see her short...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, revisits the food of her native Italy. I have just returned from four days in Italy, where I went with my choir on a tour of northern Tuscany. Aside from the fact that Italy is blisteringly hot by this point in...
In the General Election, a post-polling analysis of 35,000 voters found the Conservative vote was only 8%, whereas 9.5% of young voters supported Reform and almost 18% voted Green. This is remarkable, not because of the young voting Reform or Green. The popularity of right-wing insurgent movements has been seen all...
A St Albans dad who was tired of his daughters destroying expensive trainers by standing on the backs to take them off has launched the world’s first lace-free performance slipper - engineered specifically for women’s feet. Fourth-generation shoemaker and Nash Mills village resident Martin Dean, 46, spent five years perfecting the...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, celebrates the lemon’s versatility in dishes sweet and savoury. Very little looks, smells and tastes as summery as lemons. It’s a trifecta. Just a glance of the vivid, dimpled skin transports me directly to the Sicilian lemon groves, the Mediterranean heat...
A hit for Jeff Beck in 1967. Yes, welcome to the sixties. These arrived in a blaze of full, glorious technicolour and things began to change. Young men were finally free from conscription. Women’s long struggle for a strong political voice and equal pay started to bring results. More available jobs...
The first time I saw up-and-coming St Albans actor Asha Banks performing publicly was at a late-night Christmas market, when she was belting out ‘Let It Go’ on repeat outside Christopher Place. “That's so funny,” she says when I remind her. “It was Martin [Robinson] from the Fighting Cocks on the...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, finds greater value in labour-intensive cooking...
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