26 Jul 2023 A touch of the ultra-violet
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, experiments with lavender in a variety of recipes...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, experiments with lavender in a variety of recipes...
The heavens opened with a deluge for the installation of a blue plaque commemorating where the artist Edward Robert Hughes lived at 3 Romeland, St Albans.Despite appalling conditions, some hardy members of the public gathered outside the house of 'The Last Pre-Raphaelite' for a talk by Professor Geraint John, who...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena looks at the diverse dishes you can make using the humble strawberry...
If you were able to travel back in time nearly 2,000 years to the streets of Verulamium, you would probably stroll past scurrying slaves, braying goats and soldiers doggedly marching northwards. You might also expect to see Romans draped in snowy white togas. However, you would have been much more...
Quaint coaching routes and cute cobbled streets might be a charming characteristic of our city but what is it like to navigate one’s way through as a wheelchair user? St Albans mum Liz Boulter and her son Ben Jones explained some of the challenges faced by wheelchair users and the work...
St Albans church leaders have refused to be drawn into a row over the safeguarding of local youngsters. The controversy follows the investigation into Mike Pilavachi of Soul Survivor Watford over allegations made about his past conduct towards young people. He was suspended on May 20, six weeks into the launch of...
Elena Hogg, founder of St Albans culinary company FOOD by Elena, is firing up the barbie...
Stacey Turner, founder of mental health care and wellbeing charity It's OK To Say, talks to the award-winning thoughtful baker and mental health advocate Liz Burnett of Bu Bakes, who says she has the secret to happiness! And then meets up with Theo Michaels and Tom Rhodes, two of the...
In the centre of St Albans, where the Museum + Gallery now stands, once stood the Moot Hall. Within its timber framed walls and under its thatched roof, the Abbey of St Albans – that great Benedictine Monastery which stood on the site of today’s Cathedral – controlled every aspect...
Left over middle, right over middle, left over middle… There’s something almost mesmeric about plaiting hair, as your conscious mind relaxes control over your fingers and lets instinct take over. In fact, the very process of learning to braid rewires the brain in the same way that learning to drive does,...
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