Bucking the usual trend of driving rain and/or plummeting temperatures, this year's St Albans Pancake Race was a balmy affair in warm spring sunshine. Teams from businesses across the district competed in the St Peter's Street event, either walking or running races to demonstrate their pan-tastic flipping skills. They included Lumin Wealth,...
The team behind the UK’s leading tulip festivals is bringing its colourful flora to St Albans. Tulleys Tulip Fields will be opening on Saturday April 5 on fields adjacent to Willows Activity Farm, in Coursers Road, near London Colney. More than 500,000 bulbs have been planted ready to blossom with more than...
A detailed planning application is due to be submitted shortly for the building of 95 houses on Green Belt land opposite the BP garage in Watling Street - but the campaign group fighting the development has been gagged by SADC. The outline application was submitted three years ago and eventually gained...
What does it take to become a St Albans Cathedral tour guide? Former lawyer Peter Goodman is undertaking six months of formal training for the role, and invites us to join him on his journey...
A photo taken by a line officer at St Albans City Station has been shortlisted for the national Community Rail Awards photo competition. The picture by Andy Buckley was submitted on behalf of the Friends of St Albans City Station'and titled 'Community + Rail Set in stone'. It shows a community mosaic...
The first full moon of 2025 - the so-called ‘wolf moon’ - coincided with the inaugural event of St Albans Cathedral’s season of lunar-themed events. A yoga class hosted by Ali Parker saw participants build up to the half-moon pose under artist Luke Jerram’s huge Moon installation suspended in the Nave. Yoga...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Mezzo-soprano Deborah Holborn, who performs both fully-staged operas and concert-staged productions of song and oratorio, and is joining St Albans Chamber Opera as the mother in their production...
Roger Thomas, who has served Highfield Park Trust for nearly 30 years, has become the last of the original trustees to step down.. In the 1990s, Roger was head of land based industries at Oaklands College when thoughts of creating a new, charity-managed, rural park for St. Albans were first discussed. Hill...
One of the biggest successes in terms of celebrating our city’s rich history has been the Blue Plaques St Albans scheme. Since 2019 a group of volunteers have been working on a long-term scheme to commemorate famous citizens who have lived and worked in the city, by placing ‘blue plaques’ on...
Rail operator Govia Thameslink Railway have apologised for service failings which saw St Albans highlighted as one of the country's worst for cancellations. National Rail figures collected by train data website On Time Trains and published by the BBC said 6.8 per cent of scheduled stops at the station were cancelled...
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