After the success of last year, the Marshalswick Elf returned to the streets again this year, running 5K every morning around the area from December 1 to December 24. Charity runner Anna Bassil was supporting St Albans Action for Homeless and the St Albans Community Pantry, raising awareness for their Reverse...
Having any sort of meaningful discussion about death is something we should be encouraging more, as Laura Bill discovers...
On Christmas Eve the BBC will show the latest ‘Ghost Story for Christmas’. This is a long-established tradition and, in the past, has featured the tales of arguably literature’s greatest ghost story writer - M. R James who based many of his stories in East Anglia. This year it is...
The voices of those we love can be preserved for generations to come thanks to Caroline Pearce and the Audio Biographers...
In December our beloved Odyssey cinema is showing the much awaited, and much hyped, latest blockbuster by the acclaimed film director Ridley Scott. Dr John Morewood, President of St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, and also Secretary of The Waterloo Association - the UK’s leading organisation dedicated to...
The village of Sandridge has undergone something of a renaissance over the past month, and more positive developments are promised in the weeks ahead. Having closed its doors during the Covid pandemic, the much-loved Heartwood Tearooms reopened for business at the start of November following a major redesign internally, both to...
St Albans actor Anna MacLeod Franklin stars in new film ‘The Mystery of Mr E’, Deborah Heath finds out more...
A lot has changed for one St Albans musician since the days of being dropped off by his parents to sing as a chorister at the Abbey although Mat Taylor maintains that it was that musical education that has led to him finally releasing his own album. Graphic designer Mat has...
Morgan Howell, AKA, Supersizeart, was there for the return of St Albans’ own supergroup...
In 1684, the first ever Duke of St Albans received his title by being dangled upside down outside a window. By his mother. Or so the story goes. But given that the young Duke’s mother was Nell Gwynn and his father was Charles II, it could well be true. Pretty much...
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