St Albans Postboxes is back for its eighth year of woolly wonder, and this time organisers shouting it from the rooftops (and the postboxes): ANYONE can sponsor a topper. Not just businesses - but also families, friendship groups, book clubs, schools, dog walkers, knitting circles, and even entire streets. One of their...
There are just a few hours to go before the opening night of Iberos, a new counter-style restaurant inspired by the tabernas of Spain and Portugal, right in the heart of St Albans. Located at 8 George Street, Iberos opens to the public next Tuesday November 25, but a lucky few...
A much-loved name in fried chicken is coming to St Albans, as Chicken George Jnr prepares to open its first city restaurant in The Maltings Shopping Centre. Their new venue will be on the corner of the centre recently occupied by Locked Rooms - opposite flagship SADC development Jubilee Square. It's a...
One of the district's most popular Christmas traditions is back for another year as Willows' Activity Farm's legendary Santa Spectacular opens this weekend. From Saturday November through to Christmas Eve, visitors will be able to step through a 'polar portal' and find out whether they're on the naughty or nice list...
It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas in St Albans, as the city enters the festive season in style with its annual street festival spectacular. This year's Christmas Cracker saw St Peter's Street closed to traffic on Sunday for a day of family fun including live music, fairground rides, a...
Following the sudden and disastrous closure of Halloween Haunt Fest in Redbourn, which left a large number of actors and managers unpaid and cost contractors and the Hertfordshire Agricultural Society tens of thousands of pounds, local businesses and volunteers have come together to salvage something positive from the ashes of...
St Albans' next Blue Plaque commemorates John Chapple, who saved St Albans Cathedral's tower from collapsing during the Victorian age. It will be installed at 2 Romeland at noon on November 22, the house where Chapple lived during the Cathedral restoration works (1871-1878). The plaque will be unveiled by James Gaffney, who...
It might have been one of the mildest on record, but that shouldn't take anything away from the achievements of the 150-plus people who took part in this year's St Albans Sleepout. They swapped their beds for cardboard at Oaklands College last Friday night to raise funds and awareness for five...
A veteran district councillor has come out in support of the campaign fighting for a parish council representing the city of St Albans and surrounding areas. Cllr Robert Donald has spoken out ahead of a meeting of SADC’s strategy and resources committee next week, which will be considering the results of...
History, hands-on learning and design and technology came together as pupils at The Abbey CE VA Primary School had the opportunity to make their very own jam using grapes grown right on the school grounds. The school site, once part of the Abbey orchard that supplied fruit to the Cathedral, still...
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