16 Dec 2023 Audio Biographer reveals: ‘Hearing someone’s voice is like receiving a hug’
The voices of those we love can be preserved for generations to come thanks to Caroline Pearce and the Audio Biographers...
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...
A bid to redevelop the near-derelict buildings at 113-115 London Road has failed to win planning permission at appeal. Not far from the prestigious Gabriel Square development, on the corner of Alma Road, are two abandoned business premises which are slowly falling into wrack and ruin. The former Mumtaj Tandoori at 115...
Posting a Christmas card has not been the same in St Albans over the past six years, thanks to the efforts of a determined group of volunteer knitters. Dozens of pillar boxes across the city and beyond are transformed over the festive season with handmade and uniquely crafted toppers that tell...
Money received from the producers of blockbuster movie Wonka will be used to improve Verulamium Park. SADC was awarded £41K as part of an agreement to allow filming for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel in the flagship green space. Of this sum, £25K has been ringfenced for park improvements, together...
Matt Adams and family were at the press night for this year's Arena panto...
It seems like a simple mistake to make, pouring the fat from your Sunday roast into the sink or tipping some dirty engine oil down the drain, but would you really do the same if you knew it was likely to contaminate one of St Albans’ precious natural gems? Recent sightings...
A former St Albans musician has set his debut novel - which is also a musical - in and around the city where he grew up. Simon Whitworth, 57, who now lives in Kent, has penned Jessie Granton and The Invisible Steps, which is primarily set around the Abbey, parklands and...
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