Pupils at a St Albans primary are celebrating reaching a national leaderboard of schools making strides to walk or wheel to school. Prae Wood Primary School is one of 10 schools on the WOW Top Ten leaderboard for February 2024. The WOW - walk to school challenge, is run by charity Living...
Some of the legendary names of international cricket will be coming to St Albans to do battle with our homegrown heroes. Old Albanian Cricket Club will be playing the Lashings International Cricket Squad, dubbed ‘The Harlem Globetrotters of cricket’, on June 28. Squad announcements will be popping up in stages over the...
Green Belt campaigners have dismissed suggestions that St Albans faces an onslaught of 64,000 new homes should the Local Plan not be approved. This week in response to calls for an emergency Full Council debate on the planning blueprint:, St Albans Liberal Democrats told the St Albans Times: “The Local Plan...
An innovative scheme at St Albans' newest coffee shop gives customers the chance to "pay it forward" and purchase coffees for those less fortunate. Black Sheep Coffee - on the former BHS site in St Peter's Street - is running a Free Coffee Board to benefit people who might be short...
Work is continuing apace to replace the floor at St Peter’s Church in St Albans city centre. The church closed on July 31 for the start of a major building project to remove the impermeable concrete floor which has been damaging the main structural pillars. Plans call for a new permeable York...
Elena Hogg, founder of local culinary company FOOD by Elena, has an ambitious meal to prepare...
Sunday saw around 1,000 people descend upon St Albans Cathedral for the annual Advent procession and service. This is a beautiful candlelit service combining readings and music which marks the start of the season of Advent. Everyone present was given a candle to symbolise the first Sunday in Advent and the...
Local corporate supporters of Rennie Grove Peace Hospice have been thanked for their support of the charity over the past year at a Christmas reception. The event, at St Albans Museum + Gallery, was hosted by Alasdair McMillin, managing partner at Sherrards and Lawrence Levy, co-owner and chairman of St Albans...
Homeowners face three weeks of disruption caused by emergency works to repair a collapsed sewer pipe - and must find alternative car parking for the duration. Two houses in London Road - between Cunningham Avenue and Cunningham Hill Road - were suddenly greeted by the sight of waterworks contractors setting up...
Campaigners fighting the proposed rail freight terminal on the former Radlett airfield site to the south of St Albans have lodged a legal challenge in a bid to prevent the development from going ahead. Save St Albans: Fight the Freight say they have evidence that shows serious failings in the way...
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