The new owners of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks are set to host their first all-day free festival at the pub they took over in April 2022. Co-owners Martin Robinson, Ian Baulsh and Sam Walker will be turning the pub into a mini-Glastonbury for The Fighting Cocks Fest on July 15 with...
South Africa came to Hatfield Park last Saturday as Cellar Door Wines enjoyed an unforgettable afternoon at their Wines of South Africa summer tasting event. Owner Penny Edwards said: "It was fantastic to see so many people enjoying all the different wines on offer from every region and style in the...
The winner of one of the toughest photographic competitions in the local area has been named. Harpenden Photographic Society's Photographer of the Year for the 2022/2023 season is six-time winner Paul Johnson. The society, now in its 87th year, holds five internal competitions throughout the season, where HPS members enter colour prints,...
Rev Peter Crumpler, associate minister at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville, talks about accountability at all levels of public life. “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” – so wrote Lord Acton, a 19th century historian and politician. It’s one of those wise statements that tends to get quoted whenever...
Time flies when you’re doing what you love. Jez Levy and the team at EYES on St Albans celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Marshalswick shop opening this week. Five years of “Eyecare of Excellence – Eyewear that Rocks!” mixed with active community involvement across the city and more years of experience...
Liberal Democrat Daisy Cooper writes exclusively for the St Albans Times on the decision to sell the former Radlett airfield for a rail freight depot. Residents and campaigners have fought against these plans for a monstrous terminal on their doorstep from start to finish for more than 20 years so this...
Popular community music event the M Festival went ahead successfully despite a fire causing an evacuation of the site for more than two and a half hours. More than 500 people were already on the field at Marlborough Science Academy when a blaze broke out in the Real Belgium Fries van...
Christopher Place Shopping Centre is proud to once again welcome exotic ice cream parlour Darlish for the foreseeable future. Laura Bill had the enviable job of tasting samples while finding out more about the shop and its founder. Unable to find the ice cream flavour she craved, Darlish founder and owner...
The latest blue plaque to be installed in St Albans will celebrate the life of Pre-Raphaelite painter ER "Ted" Hughes. The ceremony will take place on Saturday July 22 at his last home at 3 Romeland. The plaque will be officially installed by Professor Geraint John, a well-known architect, who is the...
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