A long-running campaign to secure a 3G sports pitch at a Harpenden secondary school reached fruition with the official opening of the facility last week. The Katherine Warington School Community Pitch was opened by special guests Mick Harford, the former Luton Town FC player, manager and ex-England international, Annie Brewster, who...
A new charity set up to protect a much-loved area of common land north of Harpenden is appealing for public donations to reach its fundraising target this week. The Friends of Kinsbourne Green Common was established in September 2023 to enable the local community to purchase the land from the current...
There’s something quintessentially English about sipping Earl Grey and nibbling on finger sandwiches in the environs of a village tearoom, and the same could also be said about Nigel Gardner. The Conservative Party’s Parliamentary candidate for the newly created constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted has an intrinsic quirkiness and flamboyance about...
This week we take a look at Harpenden highlights, what’s on in Wheathampstead, and Redbourn red-letter days as part of our preview of events taking place across the whole of 2024. Harpenden Gang Show runs from January 9 to January 13, with the 74th event promising to once again wow audiences...
Local photographer Steve Collins has two Harpenden-based images in the final of the fiercely contested Guild of Photographers Image of the Year Competition. The Guild is a highly respected UK based association for photographers, which has members from overseas as well. Each year it runs an online monthly photographic competition, judged...
There are some spectacular shop window displays across the district this Christmas, and we wanted to recognise the huge amount of effort put in to making them so fun and festive. Our team of volunteer photographers have been out and about snapping shots of as many as possible to showcase...
The indications on the doorsteps were reassuringly positive, but did anybody really expect the Harpenden Rural by-election to see one of the biggest swings ever recorded at County Hall? The resignation of Annie Brewster as county councillor earlier this year opened up her former ward for a fight between Liberal Democrat...
Churches across St Albans, Harpenden and the district around will be celebrating the birth of Jesus, the new-born king, in services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Here the St Albans Times publishes a round-up of many of those services, showing the range of celebrations on offer – from midnight Mass...
Private polling seen by the St Albans Times shows Labour would win the new constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted, but the party seems to have given up the fight for the seat. In recent communication to its members, Labour called the constituency a “non battleground seat”, as they began to select...
Posting a Christmas card has not been the same in St Albans over the past six years, thanks to the efforts of a determined group of volunteer knitters. Dozens of pillar boxes across the city and beyond are transformed over the festive season with handmade and uniquely crafted toppers that tell...
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