Use or lose your annual allowances

Lumin Wealth’s Managing Director, Martin Cotter, highlights the importance of optimising valuable, tax-efficient allowances ahead of the end of the tax year. Using annual allowances and tax wrappers effectively forms the backbone of a robust financial plan. Many of these valuable allowances operate on a ‘use it or lose it basis’....

Rev Peter Crumpler, associate minister at St Paul’s Church in Fleetville, writes for the St Albans Times. Enthusiasm – I love it. Give me passion, excitement, fascination and joy over calm detachment and a cool distance anytime. Maybe that’s why I love the range of brilliant community organisations thriving in St Albans...

News that a Harpenden-based contracting company has gone into liquidation will not have an impact on the rest of the business, it has been confirmed. Jarvis Contracting, which dates back to 1905, announced to its 75 employees on Tuesday that the administrators had been called in before making them all redundant. Jarvis...

A blueprint for the future expansion of London Luton Airport has been unveiled as part of an application submitted to the Planning Inspectorate. If granted, the Development Consent Order is estimated to bring in an additional £1.5bn of economic activity and 100,000 jobs nationwide. The plans include community funding proposals that could...

It's one of St Albans' most popular restaurants, but was James Cameron impressed by his experience? You could not ask for a better start to a meal than the approach to Loft. Walking down George Street everything feels a bit magical already, you then turn into a little alley jam-packed with...

Deborah Heath is at the Abbey Theatre for a gritty cop drama. The Abbey Theatre’s spring programme promises a marvellous mix of entertainment including comedy, drama and musicals. This weekend I was treated to an extremely thoughtful production of “The Incident Room,” a play not about the Yorkshire Ripper but the...

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