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...
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...
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