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The history of St Albans is to be mapped out in an artist's timeline.

The entrepreneurial talents of a St Albans solicitor have earned her a county-wide award.

A kind-hearted couple will be hosting a garden party to help raise cash for the rotary club.

On this week’s Parents’ Show, we are talking about the Government’s proposed changes to increase the child to nursery worker ratios and whether these changes might impact on the quality of childcare our children receive. Critics of these proposals argue that it may lead to poor quality childcare and even to more accidents in early year settings. Those in favour maintain that by relaxing the staff-to-child ratios for certain age groups, nurseries could reduce costs and possibly make childcare more affordable. 
Our guests this week will be Peter Lilley, MP for Harpenden, Neil Leitch, Pre-School Learning Alliance, Ben Black from My Family Care and Shirley Hayman, early years’ expert.

A Northchurch man will appear on BBC One prime-time talent contest The Voice tonight.

    

Despite confidently declaring that Brentford would trounce Yeovil Town in the League One Play-off Final and that Yeovil fans could 'climb back into that stinking pit they call home' (his words, not mine) Simon was brought back down to the Earth with a bump. Brentford did not succeed and this has finally tipped him over the edge. He pulled up outside the studio in a red Ferrari 308 GTS, dressed in a ludicrous Hawaiian shirt and with a new, thick mustache (which upon closer inspection was revealed to be a heavily-drugged ferret).

"Errr.... hi Simon." Danny muttered when presented with this new style which, even for the usually ostentatious and florid Simon, was rather garish.

"I don't know who this Simon is, for I am Magnet PI!" Simon retorted, pointing his finger to the sky.

"I'm pretty sure it's Magnum PI, Simon. And why are you talking like a Victorian gentleman?" I asked, still bemused by the whole thing.

"How dare you, sir?!" he said, visibly angered at the affront. He whipped out a silk glove from behind his face-ferret and struck me across the face. "I challenge you to a duel!"

We never got around to dueling, as Danny had been quietly having Simon sectioned under the Mental Health Act. We wish him well in this trying time. I blame Uwe Rösler.

Ok, that was a lie, but Simon was in the studio to discuss the UK box office and discuss his pick of the best films on TV for the coming week.


Friday Final Destination 3 10.55pm – 12.40am Film4
Saturday The Crazies 11.40pm – 1.35am Flm4
Sunday The Lake House 11.20pm – 1.00am BBC1
Monday Wyatt Earp 11.00pm – 2.50am ITV4
Tuesday Desperado 10.50pm – 12.50am Channel 5
Dan in Real Life 11.35pm – 1.10am BBC1

Leaders at Hemel Hempstead’s mosque have spoken out to condemn the horrific attack this week on a young soldier in London’s Woolwich.

    

Residents could have new ways to comment on planning applications.

Harpenden’s Peter Lilley has shown his support for a potential pay rise for MPs.

Have you ever wanted to be Spiderman?

    

Matt Adams came in to discuss this weeks news.  There are to be changes in the St Albans Cabinet this week.  The leader of the Council is to be change this month.  The War Memorial in St Albans is to be renovated, following someone trying to view a relative on there and finding that their name had faded away.  Our Local Representative for the Apprentice is still doing well in the programme.  It is suggested that the front office of the Local Police Station is shut to help save costs. 

Councillor Beric Read came into the studio to discuss the Market Traders.  The Market traders seem to be disatisfied with the organisation of the Market at present.  Beric replied that certain amounts of stalls are allocated on Market days and on one particular day, not enough stalls were put out as snow was expected that didn't arrive.  Beric said that the council meet regularly with Market trader representatives and wish that more attended.  Following bad publicity Beric has saught an apology from the council when he felt that this had resulted in    his losing his potential seat on the council.  Tomorrow, St Albans are having a beach day.

Megan Rix came in to the studio to talk about the childrens books she writes.  Megan tends to write books featuring anamils as she is very much involved with them in her life.  Megan writes especially about dogs, as she is involved in helping with dogs for the disabled and also has 2 of her own.  She has written a book on World war 2 and what dogs did to help their country.  Megan targets an age group 9 years old plus.  Megan also writes under the Name Ruth Simes, also writing childrens books.  Megan has written a radio play and also done some writing for Childrens TV. 

Cathy Row from Hatfield Against Insineration came on to discuss this matter.  The Insinerator is at present subject to a public enquiry, the meeting before the public enquiry starts on June 6th and the enquiry itself takes place on September 10th.  The campaign is against insinerators as a whole, but particularly this size of insinerator.  The insinerator would have impact on both the local school and traffic.  Hatfield House will also be objecting to this matter, as the insinerator will be seen from the aspect of the house.  There is also the argument that there is not enough waste to insinerate for this size of facility and it is plainly not necessary even in some years time.  There is a meeting outside the Fielder Centre in Hatfield where people can make There feelings known, on 6th June, the pre event starts at 10.15 AM and the actial meeting begins at 11.00 AM.

An estate agents in St Albans put their culinary skills to the test to raise more than £415 in a charity bake off.

Over 60s wanting to add a bit of culture to their lives can sign up to organised trips.

Children at a St Albans nursery celebrated National Share a Story Month by learning the tale of The Gruffalo.

A spring fair at St Rose’s Catholic Infants’ School raised more than £3,000 towards the life-saving cancer treatment of a sick mum.

MONTHS of hard work by more than 100 volunteers will finally come to fruition at the weekend, with the Herts County Show tipped to draw a bumper crowd.

A fundraising pet show means a primary school is one step closer to getting a double decker bus that will be used as a classroom.

    

A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after his bike crashed with a car in St Albans yesterday evening.

A GROUP of sixth formers have been bridging the gap between their classroom studies and real-world engineering scenarios with the help of an engineering education scheme.

SCARLETT COOPER-WALL has been selected to England Women U20’s Nations Cup squad.