Q&A

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Dean Lawton-Taylor is an award-winning colourist who has lived in St Albans for over 20 years, building a loyal client base over two decades, with many clients continuing...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Nadya Giffen, founder and owner of Nadya Giffen Therapies at The Quadrant in Marshalswick, a fully qualified gym instructor and poll dancing instructor. Where do you go to listen...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Alicia Nelson, bar manager at The Pioneer Club and a representative of campaign group Save St Albans Pubs. Where do you go to listen to music? We really are spoilt...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: David Mitchell, independent Redbourn district councillor and chair of Redbourn Parish Council. Do you ever Google yourself? I have done, out of curiosity, but what comes up is mostly stuff...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Phoebe Shergold-Willis, founder and managing director of SASA School of Performing Arts. Where do you walk when you want to think? Clarence Park! It was my go-to place to walk...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Theresa Kennedy, owner of Up We Pop in The Maltings Shopping Centre and the most-recent Champion in the St Albans Retailer of the Year Awards. Who was your first...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Mary Conneely, current chair of St Albans Civic Society. Where do you walk when you want to think? Verulamium Park – past the lake and up across the boundary with...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Camille Leavold MBE, CEO of St Albans-based Abbots Care, a family-run homecare support business. Camille also serves as a non-executive board member of the Homecare Association and in...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Kerry O’Neill, singer with grassroots covers band The New Classics, performing the likes of Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins, Dolly Parton, Earth Wind and Fire, Simply Red and...

We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: local author Nick Churton, whose new murder mystery The Art Department takes inspiration from his home town of St Albans, including the Cathedral, which is where he first...

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