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...
For Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, it wouldn’t be Christmas without salmon...
It’s Christmas Eve in medieval St Albans and the people are preparing, not just for the holy season, but also for a time of celebration. For those walking through the Market Place on the way to the great Abbey, the air is full of the smell of gingerbread and marzipan. People...
Instability and uncertainty surrounds the Government’s proposed Local Government Reorganisation plans, with the district council in a state of limbo until at least the spring, says SADC leader Cllr Paul de Kort. The replacement of the current two-tier system of local government with new unitary authorities has prompted heated debate since...
The Party(gate) is over, the Blue Wall has been shattered into brick dust, and locally even the most contentious of policies fail to prevent the ongoing Liberal Democrat dominance of politics at all levels. So what next for the remnants of St Albans Conservatives? Are they doomed to disappear beneath a...
For Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, it just wouldn’t be Christmas without salmon...
As the dust begins to settle on a Budget which has failed to deliver on the hopes of many small companies here in St Albans, politicians and business leaders have attempted to analyse the benefits and flaws in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ autumn statement. First and foremost was the President of St...
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