New native forest is given name
BBC News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
A new woodland of 600,000 trees north of St Albans in Hertfordshire is to be called Heartwood Forest.
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Spring clean for Roman baths in Welwyn
ARLT Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
24 hour museum Last week a group of volunteers descended on Welwyn Roman Baths in Hertfordshire, on a staff day-out to clean up the ancient baths. Staff of the Deloitte St Albans office took it upon themselves to help give the baths a much-needed spring clean. Tasks inside included collecting dead beetles, which had been buried amongst the Roman ruins, [...]
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Clouds that look like breasts
BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Few will have seen a sky like it. Yet this extraordinary-looking cloud formation wasn't photographed in exotic climes, but in St Albans, Hertfordshire, on a recent August evening. What is it and how did it form?
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Olympic Games: Climbers Held Over Tibet Banner Protest in Beijing
China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Jonathan Haynes reports in the Guardian: Five people have been detained by police at the Olympics games in Beijing today after unfurling a banner in protest at China's human rights record in Tibet. Briton Philip Kirk, 24, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, and Australian-Canadian Nicole Rycroft, 41, climbed the distinctive China Central Television ...
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Can open fields be turned into forest?
An Inconvenient Blog (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
A patchwork of wheat and barley unfolds over gently undulating fields just north of St Albans. This pretty - and pretty unremarkable - 850 acres of Hertfordshire countryside looks just like the kind of peaceful greenbelt that is always the flick of a planner’s pen away from being bricked over by developers or divided by [...]
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Planting Trees To Recreate Ancient Woodlands
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
The Woodland Trust is taking on an ambitious reforestation project in the UK. The organization plans to plant 600,000 trees on an 800 acre site near St Albans in Hertfordshire county (about 22 miles North… ... continue reading
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A New Forest
thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
The Woodland Trust have bought an 800 acre to grow the largest continuous native forest in England. The Trust has plans to plant 600,000 trees near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Although there have been more forests created than lost in recent years the new forests have been mostly non-native conifer trees planted for commercial purposes. The trust says the forest could shape within 12 years. The trust...
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Snorbens
SilverTiger (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
If the title of this piece means nothing to you, the photo on the left (and the photo at the top) may possibly give you a clue. Yesterday (Saturday), we visited the Hertfordshire town of St Albans (affectionately known as “Snorbens”) and that is where these photos were taken. The Clock Tower is a fascinating building [...]
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Lib Dems win St Albans from NOC
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Liberal Democrats in Hertfordshire wins St Albans, which previously had no party in overall control.
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Urban gardener: Wings of change
The Independent (Free subscription) | 29/03/2008
I'm sitting in a packed room at the Royal Society and extinction is on everyone's mind. It's a press launch for Butterfly World, a pioneering conservation project and visitor attraction for St Albans, Hertfordshire. The opening speech by Professor Jeremy Thomas, whose previous research helped to save the Large Blue butterfly from extinction in the UK, reveals that almost three-quarters of Britain's...
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Two Companies Fined For Breaches Of Health And Safety Legislation After Two Workers Seriously Injured, UK
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/02/2008
The Health and Safety Executive has again urged construction companies to take sensible, effective precautions to protect employees and others affected by work at height. This follows a sentencing at Aylesbury Crown Court, at which Environmental Reclamation Ltd (ERL) of St Albans, Hertfordshire, was fined a total of £30,000, and ordered to pay £21,360.
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Public urged to play role in government's reform plans
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The government's vision for more personalised public services does not mean that people sit at home waiting for them to be delivered to their doorstep, the Cabinet Office minister, Ed Miliband, said today. The minister, speaking at the Guardian's Public Services Summit in St Albans, Hertfordshire, said it was crucial that the public and service users understood that they had their own part to play...
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Tea deal to fight poverty
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
from This Is Hertfordshire SHOPPERS at Sainsbury's in St Albans will be given a free tea bag on Saturday to mark the store's drive to support impoverished Third World producers. The chain has just announced that all of its Red Label own brand tea from certified Fairtrade sources, which guarantee producers get a reasonable price. The news will triple the entire British Fairtrade tea market to 9,000...
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Streets ahead
Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/10/2007
When Mark and Carole Whitby had their daughter, Olivia, 11 months ago, they decided the time had come to change the way they had been living for the past three years. The couple had been dividing their time between a home in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and a second house in a small village outside Leeds, where Mark’s daughter, Rachel, 9, lives with her mother.
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Body discovered in hunt for tourist
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/08/2007
A BODY has been found on a Mull beach by police hunting for a missing holidaymaker. Simon Gearhart, 30, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, went missing on the island ten days ago. He was holidaying alone and last telephoned family members on Friday, 27 July.
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