Hundreds of people flocked to Cottonmill Community and Cycling Centre for Sopwell Residents’ Association’s annual celebratory festival. Sunday's Cottonmill Gathering featured live music, craft and community stalls, inflatables, toddlers’ play, a story tent, face-painting, and henna hand painting, as well as visits from St Albans police and fire and rescue. Elaine Rainsford...
Forget about England's impending Euros final, there's a local team who are worthy of celebrating for their own finals achievement. Fleetville Junior School's girls' football team excelled in the Premier League Primary Stars competition, a primary school education programme which uses the appeal of football to inspire children aged five to...
It's the news hundreds of people across St Albans have been waiting for - leukaemia patient Ben Collins has received the bone marrow transplant he so desperately needed to save his life. But it was a tense and complicated process, as the vital treatment relied on another donor from Germany -...
Council bosses are ploughing ahead with their plans for a seven-day markets operation in St Albans city centre, despite strong opposition from local businesses. The council wants to provide pitches for at least 10 stalls every day throughout the week, operating as additional markets instead of stand-alone street traders. But questions have...
The first time I saw up-and-coming St Albans actor Asha Banks performing publicly was at a late-night Christmas market, when she was belting out ‘Let It Go’ on repeat outside Christopher Place. “That's so funny,” she says when I remind her. “It was Martin [Robinson] from the Fighting Cocks on the...
The ballot papers have been stored away, the Champagne bottles and campaign posters are in the recycling and sleep-deprived supporters, volunteers, council officers, journalists and candidates are starting to feel normal again after a weekend spent recovering from the overnight count. So what now? With Daisy Cooper and Victoria Collins having...
“I think there's a real sense of hope that things can change, but I also know that newly elected MPs need to work hard to regain public trust in politics.” In the early hours of Friday morning, Victoria Collins became the first MP for the new constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted,...
Anyone visiting St Albans city centre in recent weeks cannot fail to have noticed the scaffolding around the Clock Tower. The 15th century edifice is undergoing "vital repairs" which have been approved by Historic England. The external works include refixing missing louvres to bell room windows, removing and replacing loose pointing, repointing...
Did you help give St Albans restaurant Toast a nationwide nod on Radio One's Early Breakfast Show this morning? Host Dean McCullough had been chatting with his producer about why there was no such thing as a toast-based café when they received a message highlighting the St Albans eatery. Owner of Toast...
Who would have thought that the Green Party's Parliamentary candidate for St Albans - local councillor Simon Grover - has some pretty slick dance moves? He brought a smile to the General Election campaign by performing a short TikTok Brat dance routine with his daughter which unexpectedly went viral. He has...
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