Rev Peter Crumpler, associate minister at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville, looks at how older people are being marginalised. “Don’t grow old,” a parishioner of advanced years warned me some while back. “You won’t like it.” Sadly that woman is no longer with us, and I’m a whole lot older than when...
St Albans MP Daisy Cooper and council leader Chris White were walking through the bustling crowds at a heaving Charter Market one Saturday morning about a month ago. Traders were touting their wares, customers were jostling for a bargain, and the sunshine blessed the street scene with a golden hue. Daisy...
Laura Bill literally sheds blood in her quest for the latest innovative beauty treatment...
It might sound cynical but do the officers working for SADC just dream up ways to make people’s lives even more difficult on a daily basis? Everybody is feeling the pinch. Should you really have to pay to go and visit your friend who has spent a fortune to live...
Have you climbed the Clock Tower recently? You may be in for a welcome surprise...
Things have been quiet for a while following the great Verulam Estate land sale, which saw areas of green space auctioned off for development. Vast swathes of what was previously thought to be public land were sold across the estate in June 2021, including one lot around Mayne Avenue, Samian Gate,...
James Cameron boasts about one of the city's hidden treasures and a firm family favourite...
A 96-year-old craftsman who made intricate paper figures during lockdown has found himself hitting the headlines after deciding to auction off his work - but time is running out to bid on one of the lots. John Wheeler donated the 15cm figures secretly to the Free Library in Milehouse Lane during...
We meet the founder of Tomoka, St Albans' spirits and Champagne boutique, based in Christopher Place Shopping Centre. One of the selling points of St Albans' late, lamented cocktail bar Mokoko was the way it sourced fun and unusual spirits to mix, a practice which naturally led to customers enquiring where...
Local audiences can enjoy a preview of OVO Theatre Company's rollicking new production of The Threepenny Opera before it heads to the Minack Theatre in Cornwall and London's West End. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s show, which is part of the Roman Theatre Open Door Festival, runs from August 31 to...
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