Two more players have put pen to paper to sign up for the cause of taking St Albans City FC to promotion in season 2026-27, writes Jess Unwin. The sixth new face to join the squad at Clarence Park is striker Mikey Faulkner, who was one of the Isthmian League North...
Becky Alexander, author of bestselling thrillers Someone Like You and The Other Mrs Eden, both available from Waterstones and Amazon, ponders how to adapt a book for theatre. Paula Hawkins’ brilliant novel, The Girl on the Train, sold over 23 million copies worldwide. There is a very good chance you read...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Helen Whittington, co-owner of DJ’s Play and Play Putt, member of the Association of Indoor Play, and event coordinator for St Albans Community Pantry. Where do you walk when...
Beechwood Park School in Markyate is celebrating an exceptional achievement in this term's LAMDA acting examinations, with all 56 pupils who took their Course B Acting exam achieving a Distinction – the highest grade possible. It is the first time in the school's history that 100 per cent of candidates have...
When you think of romance you might imagine high-end restaurants, beautiful heritage buildings, cobbled streets or Champagne over candlelit tables with diamonds… so it’s not surprising then that St Albans has been revealed as one of the top romantic hotspots in Hertfordshire. A new study has highlighted the city as one...
OVO has officially kicked off the 12th annual Roman Theatre Open Air Festival with a VIP launch event attended by 300 specially invited guests. The historical Roman Theatre of Verulamium hosted an evening of drinks, canapés and the festival's opening production of Sherlock Holmes under the stars. The OVO team welcomed guests...
For many residents of St Albans it will always be “the boys’ school”, but in a matter of months the city’s 1,000-year-old education establishment will be embracing its biggest change in centuries. From September, girls will be joining the First Form (Year 7) cohort for the first time, top-and-tailing the female...
Do the shadows of Darcy’s and Thompson’s hang over the new restaurant now occupying their former Hatfield Road premises? James Cameron went along to find out… I always take it as a personal failure if a restaurant comes and goes in St Albans before I have a chance to visit it....
A vibrant new community exhibition, Abbey Fliers: Celebrating the Birds of the Abbey Line, brings together a diverse collection of artworks inspired by the birdlife found along the Abbey Flyer line between St Albans Abbey station and Watford Junction. Created through an open call by The Abbey Line Community Rail Partnership...
What if your children could be the heroes of their own bedtime adventures, or lose themselves in a library of 100 original tales? Those are the dual concepts behind Becoming, a children’s storytelling app developed at his kitchen table by St Albans single father-of-two James Thompson. His children, four-year-old Evie, and three-year-old...
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