We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Martin Ferguson, founder of Men of Fields, the Garden Fields Cricket Club, a group of local dads obsessed with charity fundraising (and the odd game of cricket!). Where do...
A packed St Albans church attended a special service to welcome and induct a new minister to its pastorate, as well as to churches further afield. Revd Naomi Young-Rodas now has responsibility for St Albans URC at Homewood and Greenwood (in South St Albans) and Newland Church in Luton and Dunstable. She...
Puppet shows based on the story of Saint Alban and the Cathedral’s Victorian renovations have been performed by a team of local volunteers and 60 children from Mandeville Primary School - working with arts charity Young People’s Puppet Theatre. St Albans Cathedral hosted the two productions, both written by Rebekah King...
Under a gentle midday sun on Monday afternoon, a good turnout gathered in the historic grounds of St Peter’s Churchyard for the dedication of a newly renovated monument: the gravestones of Nathaniel Cotton and those of his two wives, Anne Pembroke and Hannah Everett. Yet the atmosphere suggested something more significant...
Councillors have rejected the "ecocide" proposed by a St Albans golf club which wanted to destroy at least 1,000 mature trees in order to expand its offering. The Centurion Club on Hemel Hempstead Road aimed to create an additional 10 holes on their site, claiming it would create more jobs and...
A Marshalswick bar and barbershop has taken an innovative approach to marketing – telling its story in the form of a serialised comic strip. Paul Murray opened Phoenix Barber Co at The Quadrant in 2012, having started work at its predecessor TW Watts in 1996. Since 2020 the shop has been selling...
Three more new signings have been announced by St Albans City FC for the 2026-27 campaign, writes Jess Unwin. Zambian international Frankie Musonda is the third new close-season signing after Remi Sutton and Jake Gray. Musonda, 28, began his senior football journey at Luton Town, making 15 appearances for the Hatters, before playing on...
A local skateboarder is attempting to complete the equivalent of a marathon on wheels to raise funds for the regeneration of St Albans’ 40-year-old skatepark. Josh Hills is aiming to skateboard the 26.2 miles at Gosling Park Velodrome in Welwyn Garden City to support the Pioneer Rebirth Project, a £200K fundraiser...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Charlotte Delcore, a champion of local businesses, founder of WhatsOnStAlbans and The Business Directory, and self-confessed petrolhead, foodie and writer of fiction. Do you remember your first kiss? I do....
St Albans-based poetry group, Ver Poets, is celebrating its 60th anniversary and to mark the occasion, it recently held a reading in St Albans Library and on Zoom to launch a new anthology. A Staircase in Mid-Air contains poems by members new and old from across the country, many of whom...
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