Environmental campaigner Dr Robert Wareing has spent many years fighting to preserve Bedmond Lane wildlife meadow from development. With the district council’s draft Local Plan shockingly including the site, he has made a personal appeal to St Albans MP Daisy Cooper asking if she can persuade Lib Dem colleagues to...
Between May 11 2023 and July 2 2024, Harpenden businessman Barrie Woolston, the owner of Molasses House art gallery, campaigned to get Herts county council to tackle repeat flooding in Station Road. His pleas for action were met with sarcasm and a refusal to accept any responsibility. Here, he reveals his...
By Myah Richards and Damian Gaskin I want to go to Glastonbury and so I do. I’m off. I’m independent. I simply add the £360 ticket to my AMEX Black card, sling my bags in the back of the Range Rover and I am quickly joining the M25, on my way...
So Labour wins, with the largest Labour majority since 1997, 64 per cent of seats, but a vote share of only 34 per cent, less than Corbyn in 2017. The electors defenestrated the Tories, turning to the protest parties, Reform and the Lib Dems. However, with 121 seats, the Tories remain...
A secondary school science teacher has revealed why he won't return to teach after what he claims were massive discrepancies in the house point system. Damian Gaskin retrained as a teacher at the age of 47. He spent seven years teaching in London schools and more recently at Townsend Church of...
Following on from the Harpenden hustings, and with tongue still planted firmly in cheek, we’re back to see what happened at the St Albans Cathedral event...
Rev Peter Crumpler, associate minister at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville, looks ahead to the imminent General Election. Politicians love to tell bishops and vicars to keep out of politics – unless they’re speaking up to agree with what they are saying. And it’s a brave priest who speaks out in the...
A wry look at the first major hustings of the General Election campaign - taking place at Katherine Warington school in Harpenden last Monday and organised by the Harpenden Society...
Laura Bill has had enough. and she’s not afraid to tell us why. If you’re looking for a day-brightener that will put a double-espresso type spring in your step then I’m sorry to disappoint you but…you might want to turn away now…(That isn’t a tip I learnt at Press Association, in...
Laura Bill has found somewhere to park her car, but paying for the privilege is far from easy...
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