The search continues for St Albans’ retail champions, those businesses which make a real difference to our city centre and beyond, and we want your nominations! The St Albans Retailer of the Year Awards 2025 are brought to you by The Maltings Shopping Centre, the St Albans Times and Mix 92.6FM. This...
The Great Big Walk for Herts is back with a new distance and a new location on September 28. Led by a guide from the Hertfordshire Way and raising funds for Herts Young Homeless, the circular half marathon loop will start and finish at Heartwood Forest and will take in Wheathampstead,...
A South Asian fair is being held at St Albans Museum + Gallery as part of a month-long cultural initiative. The Mini Mela Festival is part of South Asian Heritage Month, which seeks to recognise the diverse heritage, histories and cultures in South Asian countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal,...
When you are responsible for the very biggest and oldest building in St Albans, hefty bills are a way of life. That’s when you need good Friends. It costs £6,000 a day to keep the Grade I listed St Albans Cathedral open and continuing to do the job it has done...
A new exhibition in the North Transept of St Albans Cathedral featuring the artwork of 19th century artist Holmes Winter presents a unique and valuable record of our city at the start of a period of great change. Winter (1851-1935) trained at the Norwich School of Art and came to St...
Makers of the St Albans edition of Monopoly initially feared that our affluent city may be “too posh” to have an Old Kent Road equivalent in its version of the world’s most popular board game. But one ancient landmark has come to the rescue! The historic Roman Theatre has now been...
Local Greenpeace volunteers stickered beauty company Dove’s plastic bottles on sale in the St Albans branch of Morrisons with the message ‘Stop Dove’s plastic pollution’. They also added shelf inserts asking customers to pledge to ‘Ditch Dove’ and if they knew that Dove’s owner Unilever is one of the world’s biggest...
18:24 hours on 1.8.24 was a special moment for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution as lifeboat crews and fund raisers around the country were photographed to mark the 200th anniversary of the creation of the lifesaving charity in 1824. Members of the St Albans branch joined in the “One Moment One...
It’s hot, very hot, in the upstairs bar at The Hub on Verulam Road, although probably nowhere near the same level as some of the infernal kitchens celebrity chef Tom Kerridge will have worked. The man behind the two Michelin-starred Hand & Flowers, as well as various other acclaimed eateries, is...
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is set to host its second all-day free festival this weekend. Co-owners Martin Robinson, Ian Baulsh and Sam Walker will be turning the pub into a mini-Glastonbury for The Fighting Cocks Fest on August 3 with 10 live bands performing. Bands perfoming include Kaspar and the Swamp Dogs,...
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