It’s that time of year again when the energy, enthusiasm and hard work of hundreds of St Albans children and adult volunteers come together to make spectacular memories and build skills to last a lifetime. Yes, rehearsals are well under way now for the award-winning St Albans Gang Show. The last rehearsal...
Sopwell House Hotel is jumping on board the Wonka bandwagon following the release of the blockbuster movie - which was partly filmed in St Albans. The venue is hosting a Wonka Themed Escape until the end of January, offering a taste of the weird and wonderful inspired by Roald Dahl’s quirky...
Members of the congregation at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville are taking a starring role in a national Church of England social media campaign encouraging people to come to church this Christmas. The 40-second ads focus on the joy of being part of a church community, particularly at this time of...
Deborah Heath takes a trip to Narnia for the Company of Ten’s Christmas production...
St Albans’ pioneering guerrilla gardener has welcomed a new Green Party initiative encouraging residents to grow food and flowers on disused scraps of land around the district. Cllr Juliet Voisey of St Peter's ward introduced the proposal to a Full Council meeting earlier this month, where it was unanimously approved. The proposal...
Churches across St Albans, Harpenden and the district around will be celebrating the birth of Jesus, the new-born king, in services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Here the St Albans Times publishes a round-up of many of those services, showing the range of celebrations on offer – from midnight Mass...
The voices of those we love can be preserved for generations to come thanks to Caroline Pearce and the Audio Biographers...
The community of St Columba’s College rallied round to raise a staggering £27,000 at their annual festive fayre - the biggest amount ever recorded. Headmaster Karl Guest said simply that he was “lost for words” after the total was tallied. The funds raised will drive the development of school sports facilities and...
Taking advantage of a break in the rain, half a dozen members of The Friends of Jersey Lane volunteered their time on Friday to assist in the planting of what will, in time, grow to become a new stretch of native hedgerow. In all, 120 small trees – termed ‘whips’ –...
Playwrights will have the chance to see their scripts performed next year at a two-week long New Writing Festival to be held at the Abbey Theatre in St Albans. Local drama group, The Company of Ten, is putting on the Festival in July 2024 to give emerging writers much needed stage...
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