14 Feb 2026 ‘After 46 years, I received the autism diagnosis I had always needed’
Laura Bill tells candidly of her life-changing autism diagnosis and how she’s now reprocessing a lifetime of experiences...
Laura Bill tells candidly of her life-changing autism diagnosis and how she’s now reprocessing a lifetime of experiences...
Remember September 2005? In the United States, emergency efforts continued to help those impacted by the devastating Hurricane Katrina and the California Senate passed the first bill to allow same-sex marriage, while in the UK the repercussions of the July London bombings continued to play out and England won The...
July 1946, the first summer free of war for many people for what must have seemed like a very long time...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, grabs the pepper for some winter warmers.. What could be better for warming the belly and the soul at this chilly and damp time of year than pepper? Fiery but aromatic, punchy but fragrant – it provides a really tasty way...
It’s a cold and miserable January - in case you hadn’t noticed - but the cockles of your heart can be warm again as we take a look at what is going on in the city centre to keep people safe and well. Cue primary school assembly banger ‘Would You Walk...
Times columnist James Cameron has come up with a new concept for the first month of the year...
It’s been two decades since St Albans had a Labour MP, and the party’s representation in SADC has been in steady decline for years, with no councillors at all serving between 2022-23. But in May 2024 the situation started to change, with decisive victories in London Colney for Emma Turnbull and...
He might not have enjoyed the fairytale ending audiences were rooting for, but for Bailey Smith, the St Albans born-and-bred groom on the recent series of reality show Married at First Sight UK, there certainly aren’t any regrets. “Even though it didn’t end in forever love, I still would have done...
School-based anxiety, also known as emotionally based school avoidance, is a rising problem among young people. It is the significant distress or inability to attend school due to emotional factors, although the ‘avoidance’ label creates a problem for many because it implies that the young person just doesn’t want to go...
With page after page of news and features every issue, is perhaps easy to forget everything that the St Albans Times has reported on across the district over the past 12 months, which is one of the many reasons why we take a look back over this period for our...
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