Markyate Scout Group is at risk of imminent closure unless volunteers come forwards to take over as leaders. After an extensive appeal for help, only one person has come forwards, and that was to run the Beavers. Secretary Kyle Gamble said: “We have been trying for the best part of a year...
St Albans City 2 Cray Wanderers 3 (Isthmian League Premier Division)From Jess Unwin at Clarence Park, photos by Jim Standen. A third defeat in a row, leaving St Albans City 12 points behind the play-off places, prompted Saints manager Gary McCann to concede that promotion back to the National League South...
St Albans Abbey Theatre’s Company of Teens will be bringing fresh urgency and youthful power to a subversive retelling of a classical Greek myth. Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad revisits Homer’s Odyssey from the perspective of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, alongside the chorus of her maids whose fate has long been relegated...
If you haven’t been fortunate to see one of St Albans Gang Show’s many productions over the past 25 years, then nobody would forgive you for having certain preconceptions about what to expect. In fact, reviewing my first show last year, I had an idea of an all-singing, all-dancing variety show...
Grassroots cover band The New Classics will be belting out all genres of music from funk, soul, pop to rock and country at the Hare and Hounds in Sopwell Lane this evening. It's the first of the pub's new fortnightly live music sessions, which aims to bring something different to the...
Campaigners fighting against a pincer movement of housing developments which threaten the character of historic Sandridge village have highlighted major flaws in the applications. The village, which dates back to Saxon times, is facing proposals for more than 100 new homes on Green Belt land to the east and west which...
A St Albans business leader has been named Local Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneurs Circle (EC), in recognition of his leadership, experience and contribution to the local business community. David Egerton, founder of business development company Systemise2Scale, received the award at the St Albans EC Local Event for the role...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: interior design guru and former presenter of CBBC’s The Dengineers, Emma Kosh, who was also one of the first regular contributors to the St Albans Times...
Ruth Newman begins a monthly column exploring life in the year before forty, set in St Albans and rooted in the everyday questions of adulthood, choice and freedom. It’s a bright January morning in St Albans and I’m walking home from Nkora with my Americano, passing a steady procession of prams,...
Billericay Town 3 St Albans City 2 (Isthmian League Premier Division) Report by Jess Unwin Gary McCann made an unhappy return to the club he left just four months ago as St Albans City slipped to a third defeat in their last four games. Appointed as the new Saints boss in November, McCann...
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