St Albans Labour have once more proved why locally and nationally people are losing faith in their party. Rather than concentrate on the achievable and affordable they’d rather put back proposals and hold out for what can only be described as a wish list. Instead of new facilities which can host county swimming galas and […]

The Liberal Democrats at county hall, including your local County Councillor Allan Witherick, are proposing a budget which will make deep cuts in waste and excessively costly contracts. Lib Dem Leader Chris White said: ‘There must be a zero council tax increase, as we proposed in our manifesto last year. But there also need to […]

Despite protests by the Tories that they’re salting routes will maintain links to essential services local residents face a circular battle to get to St Albans City Hospital. The main route, Normandy Road, is left off of salting routes resulting in residents being forced to go via Batchwood Drive if coming from St Albans Centre.  […]

The few salt bins in St Albans are finally being refilled, however with the cold snap not so much a snap of the fingers as a sustained round of applause it may not last long. We are also asking residents to be vigilant for theft of salt.  In a few cases people have been witnessed […]

The last few weeks have certainly been a case of needing good grit/salt- and still shaking from the cold! Tory run Herts County Council have once again run out of salt with them slowly reducing the amount they are doing- so now they aren’t filling salt bins and are limiting what they give to Districts […]

St Albans Library is closed from Monday 11 January – Friday 22 January for the installation of new issue and return equipment.  This has been brought forward to coincide with the upgrade of the heating system which is taking place during these two weeks. As a result they will be keeping Marshalswick Library open for […]

We’ve been reporting some of the problems to Herts Highways where gritting was either done too little, or too late. In particular last night we reached the point where Sandpit Lane for example was almost impassable with cars having to be pushed up the slope towards St Saviour’s Church, despite being one of the main […]

With the Kids  enjoying the snow what’s the situation? Schools Most of the schools in St Albans are currently closed. You can check on this website for a list.  Do check local radio etc as well. The school bus services will do their best, but buses aren’t the easiest things to drive in these conditions […]

The answer, at least on the County Council, would appear to be no. Today Hertfordshire County Council has been named and shamed as one of only 6 of 353 councils to have qualified accounts. Account qualification is a status give to accounts that the Auditor will not sign off as they are not a true […]

Last nights Overview & Scrutiny Committees focussed on two areas of interest to residents: a) The budget b) How we keep people informed in future With the budget fresh thinking focussed on “What can we deliver for this amount of money.”  This is very different from the usual process of “Salami slicing” where, faced with […]