Best-selling children's writer and illustrator Cressida Cowell was the special guest at Fleetville Junior School today. Cressida is most famous for her How to Train Your Dragon series, which was adapted by Dreamworks Animation as an award-winning film franchise, but her other work includes The Treetop Twins, The Tiny Detectives series,...
Two St Albans PE teachers have been left homeless after the recent torrential rain flooded them out of their family home. Lizzie and Steve McDermott both work at St Albans High School for Girls, Lizzie at the Prep in Wheathampstead and Steve at the Senior School. Last week’s extraordinarily heavy downpour saw...
After months of voting, and approximately 700 nominations, the shortlist of finalists for this year’s St Albans Retailer of the Year Awards can be revealed. Brought to you by The Maltings Shopping Centre, the St Albans Times and Mix 92.6FM, the awards are a celebration of all that is great about...
Bibliophiles were out in force for the inaugural Book Club Battle at the Pioneer Club. Book clubs and book enthusiasts came together to take part in the quiz which was hosted by acclaimed local authors Matt Arlidge and Becky Alexander. Rounds included first lines, where competitors were asked to guess a book...
Two men have been jailed for more than nine years after kidnapping a man in St Albans. The incident happened at around 12.05pm on October 3 2019, when a man in his twenties was bundled into the back of a car on Colney Street. He was then assaulted before managing to flee...
Local insurance company Howden St Albans has launched a book exchange to promote the joy of reading this autumn. The exchange offers a focal point for the local community to donate, swap or pick up books, and Howden will even have some activity packs to giveaway (whilst stocks last). To kickstart the...
The countdown has officially begun for the first Alban Film Week, a celebration of celluloid taking place at St Albans Cathedral in partnership with the St Albans Film Festival. Running from Tuesday October 29 to Saturday November 2, highlights include a screening of Thelma and Louise in the Nave, a Gromit...
When St Albans’ Chequer Street Oxfam store closed its doors at the start of the summer, we were promised it would be opening a bigger premises on the site of the former Moss Bros outlet in July. But months later and the shop has still not been fitted out and signage...
Acclaimed local gastro pub Dylans is mixing up Negroni cocktails all this week in support of Slow Food's mission to foster a more sustainable and equitable world of food and drink. Head of bars and award-winning bartender Roberto Fiorillo has created a menu of Negronis all priced at £12 to suit...
Over a number of years campaigners have attempted to clean up the alleyways that run off the Market Place in St Albans. It has been an uphill struggle involving unsightly bins, refuse, and rats eating food left out in flimsy bags. The aim has always been that these alleyways which are the...
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