1066 was a year of turmoil, bloodshed and momentous change for England. In late September, led by Duke William of Normandy, 7000 men landed on the Sussex coast. Just over two weeks later, on 14th October, as dawn rose over East Sussex, two great armies began a bloody battle for...
Laura Bill literally sheds blood in her quest for the latest innovative beauty treatment...
Gail Jackson from Sustainable St Albans looks at a new project linking local concerns about the environment within a wider global context. Former Mayor of St Albans and honorary alderman Mohammad Iqbal Zia, together with former Mayoress Farhat Zia, have kickstarted a project to tackle a growing plastic pollution problem by...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, explores the delights of the red fruit by taking a look back at her Italian roots...
Sarah Chambers and Alex Assadian look back over 30 years of Open Door with 30 facts you might not know about the facility. 1. In 1992 Kerry Pollard and a team of local church representatives set up a temporary night shelter in Victoria Street, where Open Door began. So successful was...
Stacey Turner, founder of mental health care and wellbeing charity It's OK To Say, reveals her latest initiative. It’s wonderful to see how we are becoming more and more known as a mental health care and wellbeing charity offering counselling, workshops and support groups for people of all ages. Our work...
Imagine if you lived in Tudor St Albans. Would you mourn Henry VIII’s destruction of its Abbey? The loss of centuries of scholarship, as well as its infirmary? The disappearance of the pilgrimage trade which had brought prosperity to the town? Or would you celebrate the new found freedom from the...
“We have to be thin but not too thin, and we can never say we want to be thin you have to say you want to be healthy. But also you have to be thin.” – The Barbie Movie (2023). Having seen an ‘are you summer ready?’ type advert locally, we...
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...
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