Business News
13:11 - 12 March 2010
TRUDGING through the mud and torrential rain at the Glastonbury festival in 2007 prompted Calvin and Nadine Newport to question their future in Britain. The couple, who met online five years ago while Calvin still lived in St Albans, were fed up with the...
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13:06 - 12 March 2010
THIS newspaper is one of the most environmentally-friendly produced in the world. Archant, the parent company of the Herts Advertiser has signed a contract with Palm Paper which means all 30,000 tonnes of paper it uses each year will come from within Norf...
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17:24 - 11 March 2010
AN APPEAL against the council s decision to refuse developers permission for a new hotel and leisure complex in the city centre has been withdrawn. As reported first by the Herts Advertiser last year, Antringham Verulamium lodged an appeal after St Albans...
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15:45 - 10 March 2010
THE high-profile £1 million campaign to buy the old Odeon in St Albans and retain it as a cinema has hit its target. In fact, slightly more than £1 million pounds has rolled in to make the long-held big screen dream for St Albans now look a certainty. The...
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15:20 - 09 March 2010
THE CURRENT Woolworths store in St Albans was sold off for what is believed to be considerably more than the guide price before today s auction. The St Peter s Street building, which Tesco hopes to be moving into this summer, has been empty since Woolworths closed its branches nationwide...
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14:50 - 08 March 2010
FOUR streets in Harpenden and one in Radlett have been named in the top ten most expensive locations in the region. Property website Mouseprice.com released the results of its annual street rankings which saw Newlands Avenue in Radlett maintain its third...
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12:06 - 15 October 2009
GREASE star and X Factor runner-up Ray Quinn has got on his bike to travel to the West End from his new home in St Albans. The Dancing on Ice champion, who currently stars as Danny Zuko in Grease, recently splashed out on his first set of wheels - a Yama...
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14:43 - 21 July 2009
MORE than 100 boxes of items for children are going out to Romania next month as a result of a successful charity campaign Orchid Group, which has more than 200 pubs nationwide, has been collecting educational and arts and crafts materials to take to orph...
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14:42 - 21 July 2009
CREDIT crunched St Albans residents have a new website to turn to for help thanks to the district council. The council s Recession Response Board, which is currently working on a number of projects, has built the website for people who have been made redu...
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14:15 - 02 July 2009
SELECTA, one of Europe s foremost suppliers of vending solutions, has added to its fleet of Sprinter powered stairclimbers from Harpenden-based Stanley Handling. Employed on some of Selecta s UK contracts, they are used predominantly for the replenishment...
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10:21 - 02 July 2009
A FOOD factory in St Albans has joined forces with the district council in an attempt to revamp a local day care centre. Premier Foods, the UK s largest food producer, will provide resources for the painting and decorating of part of the Jubilee Centre i...
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