A striking new piece of street art has appeared in Lamb Alley, transforming a once-overlooked and graffitied pillar into a vivid tribute to St Albans’ medieval past. Commissioned by Conservation 50 and supported by HSBC bank, the mural depicts a Wars of the Roses soldier in full armour - a nod...
Blue star Duncan James told crowds that he was back “on my old manor” when he performed with his bandmates on the final day of this year’s Foodies Festival. The singer - who missed the 2024 festival due to corrective surgery on a back condition - revealed how he used to...
A two-pronged attack on draconian new yellow lines in a road in St Albans city centre has resulted in the district council revising the scheme. The St Albans Times teamed up with St Peter's ward councillor Juliet Voisey to call for common sense over new measures in Lattimore Road which made...
Miraculously there were no serious injuries following a crash involving two buses in St Peter’s Street, St Albans. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon, when the road was packed with shoppers visiting the Charter Market in the sunshine, but fortunately nobody was hit when an Uno bus careered across the...
You can’t ignore the irony in a new advert from Affinity Water encouraging people to ‘Find a Stream Experience’ in their local area. Because one of the locations featured is the River Ver, the same waterway which recently featured on national television to highlight how sewage had been pumped into it...
A St Albans secondary school is introducing new branded skirts in order to stop female students from rolling them up to often indecent lengths. The Marlborough Science Academy will enforce the wearing of skirts featuring their initials around the waistband from the start of the autumn term in September. Headteacher Annie Thomson...
St Columba’s College spent the last day of half-term raising money for Annabelle’s Challenge, a charity supporting people with vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (vEDS). Vascular EDS is a rare genetic connective tissue disorder, which is characterised by fragile blood vessels and internal organs. It affects around one in 100,000-200,000 people. Students at St...
Neither St Albans district council or Herts county council have taken any responsibility for unpopular yellow lines recently introduced in a city centre road. Last year SADC launched a public consultation on plans to remove the single yellow lines and scrapping most of the one-hour waiting bays in Lattimore Road, eliminating...
There are still more questions than answers hanging over plans to build more than 1,000 new homes on Green Belt land to the north of the city. The St Albans Times has extensively covered the proposed Woollam and Cala developments for the past few years, but despite countless stories on the...
Parents, teachers and fashionistas packed out a school hall for the first Fleetville Fashion Extravaganza - a celebration of style, creativity and body positivity. Hosted by Hatfield Road boutique I’m Fine Wellbeing and taking place at Fleetville Junior School, it featured an all-star line-up of models and speakers. The show was organised...
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