11 Jun 2026 Theatre review: Sherlock Holmes
The game’s afoot for Deborah Heath as OVO raises the metaphorical curtain on this year’s Roman Theatre Festival...
The game’s afoot for Deborah Heath as OVO raises the metaphorical curtain on this year’s Roman Theatre Festival...
Runners of all ages and abilities are being urged to lace up their trainers and join a special celebration event this June, as the much-loved St Albans Summer Solstice 10K marks its 10th year. Taking place on Friday June 19, the popular evening race - which is organised by St Albans...
The Orchard Nursing Home in St Albans marked their newly achieved Veteran Friendly status with an event for residents, relatives and specially invited guests from the local community. The celebration, hosted by home manager Dumitru Vazaru, and the home’s VFF Champions, who include Natalie Collard and Vicky Ashby, took place in...
Women aged between 30 and 66 are improving their fitness, confidence and camaraderie as part of football training sessions taking place in London Colney and St Albans. Launched in September 2022, Empower Women’s Football is run by LeeAnna’s Wish CIC, a Black-led community organisation based in the Cottonmill and Sopwell area...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Martin Ferguson, founder of Men of Fields, the Garden Fields Cricket Club, a group of local dads obsessed with charity fundraising (and the odd game of cricket!). Where do...
A packed St Albans church attended a special service to welcome and induct a new minister to its pastorate, as well as to churches further afield. Revd Naomi Young-Rodas now has responsibility for St Albans URC at Homewood and Greenwood (in South St Albans) and Newland Church in Luton and Dunstable. She...
Puppet shows based on the story of Saint Alban and the Cathedral’s Victorian renovations have been performed by a team of local volunteers and 60 children from Mandeville Primary School - working with arts charity Young People’s Puppet Theatre. St Albans Cathedral hosted the two productions, both written by Rebekah King...
Under a gentle midday sun on Monday afternoon, a good turnout gathered in the historic grounds of St Peter’s Churchyard for the dedication of a newly renovated monument: the gravestones of Nathaniel Cotton and those of his two wives, Anne Pembroke and Hannah Everett. Yet the atmosphere suggested something more significant...
Councillors have rejected the "ecocide" proposed by a St Albans golf club which wanted to destroy at least 1,000 mature trees in order to expand its offering. The Centurion Club on Hemel Hempstead Road aimed to create an additional 10 holes on their site, claiming it would create more jobs and...
A Marshalswick bar and barbershop has taken an innovative approach to marketing – telling its story in the form of a serialised comic strip. Paul Murray opened Phoenix Barber Co at The Quadrant in 2012, having started work at its predecessor TW Watts in 1996. Since 2020 the shop has been selling...
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