31 Dec 2023 Good riddance to 2023!
Laura Bill reveals why she’s glad to be bidding farewell to the current year...
Laura Bill reveals why she’s glad to be bidding farewell to the current year...
With the right planning, and careful use of allowances, a couple can significantly lighten their tax load in retirement, as Lumin’s Managing Director Martin Cotter explains. Most retirees can substantially reduce their tax burden once they stop working. With careful management and disciplined use of allowances a couple could be able...
Whether food, music, arts and culture, comedy or dancing is your passion, St Albans has it all covered with a packed calendar of events and festivals in 2024. Marvel at Peace Doves, an incredible art installation by Peter Walker Sculptor at St Albans Cathedral, in which 10,000 paper doves will hang...
“Sing along with the common people… Sing along and it might just get you through…” Five years ago a collaboration of unrepentant and maturing indie kids decided that what St Albans really needed was a celebration of the music they grew up listening to, from Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine...
Local cycling centre St Albans Cycle Hub will be hosting British Cycling’s Sofa to Saddle training programme in January and February. Led by British Cycling instructors the course will teach cycling skills at the Hub to women who are absolute beginners on bikes or who are returning to cycling. The first sessions...
Local photographer Steve Collins has two Harpenden-based images in the final of the fiercely contested Guild of Photographers Image of the Year Competition. The Guild is a highly respected UK based association for photographers, which has members from overseas as well. Each year it runs an online monthly photographic competition, judged...
"For England and St George!" The story of our nation's patron saint and his gruelling battle with a firebreathing dragon was re-enacted at locations across the city centre on Boxing Day. The tradition of the St Albans Mummers dates back more than 50 years, when a group of friends made up...
The evacuation of St Albans Cathedral after candles set off a smoke alarm made national press in the run-up to Christmas. The drama occurred on Thursday evening during a traditional candlelit carols service, and saw more than 1,400 people evacuated from the building. Eye-witness Peter Cook revealed: "As every year each member...
Could we be entering the end game for the completion of Jubilee Square? That is the feeling at the Civic Centre according to SADC leader Chris White. He told the St Albans Times that the latest hold-up was a technical issue relating to the penthouses at the project. “There is more nervousness...
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