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Over 800 postcode areas have now experienced over a week of freezing weather

In today’s newsletter: With young people drinking less, and landlords wrestling with unpredictable trade, one city’s pub history offers clues to the future of Britain’s boozers

The minnow from St Albans faces the world No2

Oliver Tarvet, 21, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, will play the defending Wimbledon champion on Wednesday.

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’?

Just under a year ago, headteachers at primary schools in St Albans told families their learning environments would be smartphone free and urged parents not to give their children the devices until the age of 14. Nearly a year into the experiment, Holly Bancroft explores the impact at one school

A finance expert said there is a ‘vast gulf’ between the capitals of resilience and the places where money is stretched.

From breaking out of local clubs to touring with Jethro Tull and attracting guest spots from David Bowie and Peter Sellers, the leading light of British folk looks back – and forward

Architect Michael Henriksen uses textured clay blocks, cork flooring and self-built joinery to transform his family home in St Albans near London