The breakthrough acts at this year's St Albans Pub in the Park are receiving local backing from The Maltings Shopping Centre. The retail hub will be the main sponsor of the Headliner Stage at this year’s festival, taking place in Verulamium Park from 5–7 September 2025. The state will showcase 23 emerging...
A St Albans-based performing arts school has been recognised for its outstanding social and community impact. SASA received the Business Awards UK gong for Social Impact of the Year, highlighting everything they do to promote and develop access to the performing arts for young people in the region. The school was praised...
Debate has been raging about the new public benches installed in Market Place opposite Sweaty Betty. Made of recycled materials, the benches were funded by St Albans BID and replaced the old wooden and metal ones which had reached the end of their natural lifespans. But no sooner were the benches in...
A home care provider recognised for her leadership during Covid has welcomed the testimony given at the end of the public inquiry into the pandemic. Camille Leavold MBE, chief executive of Abbots Care, who received the inaugural Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care gold award, praised the testimony that Dr Jane...
Something very special is afoot at the Cathedral, where preparations are being made for the world premiere of The St Albans Mystery Plays this autumn. The presentation in verse is scripted by local playwright Imogen de la Bere and reflects its St Albans setting, which of course is the location of...
Richard Smitheman, a much-loved figurative artist and teacher from St Albans, is facing a recurrence of stage 4 colon cancer, just six months after completing a year-long course of surgery and chemotherapy. Treatment has resumed and is already intense, with 10 rounds of chemo completed and radiation plus major surgery to...
How you change the focus of the NHS from reactive medicine to proactive wellbeing is at the heart of a new initiative running from a St Albans surgery. The Living Well Course is run by team of GPs with expertise in lifestyle medicine, supporting people so they can enjoy the best...
An environmental group has issued a stern objection against plans for more than 1,000 new homes in north St Albans - the Woollam Park development. The Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust has criticised the planning application due to its impact on the Long Spring and Soothouse Wood local wildlife site and...
Progress is being made on major improvements to the River Ver, but the scheme no longer includes work to tackle the state of Verulamium Lakes. The Environment Agency is now leading on the restoration of the rare chalk stream which runs through the park, but SADC has created a Verulamium Park...
OVO’s acclaimed youth ensemble returns to the Roman Theatre of Verulamium to close the 2025 Roman Theatre Festival with a bold, new staging of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams and directed by long-time OVO associate artist, Faith Turner, this gripping production explores leadership,...
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