For many residents of St Albans it will always be “the boys’ school”, but in a matter of months the city’s 1,000-year-old education establishment will be embracing its biggest change in centuries. From September, girls will be joining the First Form (Year 7) cohort for the first time, top-and-tailing the female...
Do the shadows of Darcy’s and Thompson’s hang over the new restaurant now occupying their former Hatfield Road premises? James Cameron went along to find out… I always take it as a personal failure if a restaurant comes and goes in St Albans before I have a chance to visit it....
There was a time when wearing tinted lenses indoors felt slightly suspicious. A little bit rock star. A little bit “who do they think they are?” Possibly somebody avoiding paparazzi. Or recovering from the night before. But suddenly, tinted lenses are back. And this time they make perfect sense. According to EYES on...
A vibrant new community exhibition, Abbey Fliers: Celebrating the Birds of the Abbey Line, brings together a diverse collection of artworks inspired by the birdlife found along the Abbey Flyer line between St Albans Abbey station and Watford Junction. Created through an open call by The Abbey Line Community Rail Partnership...
What if your children could be the heroes of their own bedtime adventures, or lose themselves in a library of 100 original tales? Those are the dual concepts behind Becoming, a children’s storytelling app developed at his kitchen table by St Albans single father-of-two James Thompson. His children, four-year-old Evie, and three-year-old...
Older residents in St Albans are being supported to improve their health and wellbeing at home through new initiative Move More, Eat Well. This is a local service delivered by Health & Independent Living Support (HILS) and funded by St Albans Old People’s Trust through the Grace Muriel Legacy Fund. The service...
A derelict wasteland has been transformed into a blossoming community allotment thanks to the dedication and commitment of local volunteers. An unused and overgrown plot on the edge of the Sopwell Mill allotment has now been given a new lease of life as an Inclusive Community Allotment. Situated just 500m from Cottonmill...
A visionary self-taught artist whose instinctive talent has taken her from India to St Albans is looking for a studio space where she can create a very different kind of art school. Fathima Hakkim, 34, who has both ADHD and autism, came to this country from Kerala to pursue her creative...
Italian-founded bespoke womenswear Atelier Ferrari + Monti is to take a short summer pause for a very special reason before reopening in September. After more than a decade designing bespoke womenswear from their George Street store, husband-and-wife designer duo Annalisa Monti and Cristopher Ferrari are preparing for an exciting new chapter:...
James Cameron and Deborah Heath are at the Roman Theatre for an opening night triumph...
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