Deborah Heath is at the Abbey Theatre for Ever After Productions' regional premiere of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. It takes time to create the perfect picture, a problem that artist George Seurat must have encountered in the two years it took to perfect 'Sunday Afternoon on The...
The St Albans Postboxes fundraising campaign is back for 2025, and the call has gone out for official sponsors of this much-loved community event. Now in its eighth year, St Albans Postboxes has raised over £165,000 for local charities, thanks to the creativity of volunteer makers, the support of generous businesses, and...
The organisers of the ever-popular George Street Gin and Jazz Festival have expressed their regret at having to cancel the event due to extreme bad weather. Weather warnings of high winds, coupled with torrential rain, has resulted in St Albans City Centre BID and George Street Retail Association deciding to pull...
There’s a new face in the fight against anti-social behaviour (ASB), shoplifting, drug use and speeding in the city. Sergeant James Keene now heads up the St Albans Central, North and West Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT), consisting of PCs and PCSOs who work on solving short and long-term issues affecting the...
The first phase of a £277,000 transformation of the Alban Arena’s seating is now complete - with new circle seats unveiled to audiences this week. Representatives from theatre owners SADC, together with theatre operator Everyone Active and Alban Arena Patron Bob Golding have marked the milestone. A total of 385 seats in...
One of Britain’s largest, oldest and most thriving local history societies has added its voice to the growing campaign to protect the heritage assets of St Albans from the dangers posed by the proposed local government reorganisation. At its recent AGM, members of the 750-strong St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and...
Filming on the first season of a new BBC comedy called 'Ann Droid' will be taking place outside the Music Department shop on the corner of Lattimore Road and London Road. The shop will be used as the workplace of the show's main character's son, and will involve interior and exterior...
Are you brave enough to venture inside the UK's most terrifying new Halloween event? Halloween Haunt Fest will be making its debut at Hertfordshire Showground on October 17, featuring four hair-raising immersive scare mazes alongside many more eerie experiences for a night out that’s guaranteed to deliver heart-pounding, high-intensity horror. Created by...
A vintage bench marking the Railway 200 initiative has been unveiled in the garden of St Albans South Signal Box alongside a mosaic designed by pupils from Camp School. The project was conceived back in March at the National Community Rail Awards (CRA) in Newcastle, attended by Andy Buckley, line officer...
The Bootleg Beatles are returning to St Albans on October 9, bringing their highly-acclaimed tribute to the Fab Four to the Alban Arena for one night only. Deborah Heath caught up with George, aka Stephen Hill, to gain a behind-the-scenes insight into the show. Got To Get You Into My Life The...
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