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  • Drier spell

    Rainfall in Dymock for the first six months of the year was below average, according to Great Woodend weather-watcher Tony Denby. He said: "June was a very warm month with good periods of sunshine mid month. Although the rainfall was average, thanks mainly

  • New site offered for swimming pool

    CAMPAIGNERS in Brom-yard are still hopeful they can get a swimming pool built in the town. They are keeping their fingers crossed despite the news Herefordshire Council has supported plans to build a pool in Leominster. The Bromyard and District Swimming

  • Help to learn in safety

    THE congregation at St Mary's Church in Newent have been briefed on how their donations have been spent in the Sudan. Around £1,000 was raised last year for the Under Tree Schools project in Sudan, and on Sunday guest speaker Richard Ambrose, project

  • Organ restoration is now set for a November finish

    THE £18,000 organ restoration at St Mary's Church, Newent, is running behind schedule but there are hopes of an inaugural concert in November. The painstaking specialist work involved is the main reason for the slower than expected progress on the 18th

  • 25/7/03 - Bertram fires United goal bonanza

    HEREFORD United made it three pre-season wins out of four with a 13-1 goalscoring spectacular at Ludlow Town's impressive new Coors Stadium last night. A sizeable crowd saw some excellent finishing by the Bulls as they officially opened the Midland Alliance

  • Mourning three lives cut short

    HUNDREDS of people attended a thanksgiving service to support two brothers who lost three members of their family in a tragic road accident. St Michael and All Angels' Church in Ledbury was filled close to capacity on Wednes-day afternoon, with extra

  • Incident a mystery

    POLICE have identified the victim of a fatal road accident near Fromes Hill but questions still remain about the incident. Officers say they are not certain why pedestrian Samantha Pitt, aged 29, was on the A4103 near the Evesbatch junction, where she

  • Let down on a special day

    ORGANISERS of Brom-yard in Bloom have rubbished street cleaners who failed to turn up when the entry was marked. The judges had to walk around "disgusting" litter on the town's streets after binmen did not appear - despite being asked five times. Instead

  • Awards recognise academic excellence

    ACADEMIC excellence and the effort of Queen Elizabeth pupils has been recognised at the school's awards evening. Children from the Bromyard school were recognised at a special ceremony in its main hall. Former pupil Martin Bennett, director at Knightwick-based

  • Offer to save Birds of Prey Centre

    A BUSINESSMAN is offering to buy the National Birds of Prey Centre in Newent and 70 of its birds, to keep it open as a major tourist attraction. The centre is set to close for good on October 31, after 37 years as one of the most famous attractions in

  • Festival is good for town

    A WIDER spectrum of art could be included in the Newent Arts Festival next year, after the successful revival of the event. The deputy mayor of Newent, Bill Offord, has expressed the hope next year's festival would include performances of music, drama

  • Museum recommended

    CHARLES Bronson, one of the UK's most infamous prisoners, has provided an internet recommendation for Newent's Crime Through Time Museum. The serial hostage taker, who has been in solitary confinement for 23 out of his 27 years in prison, expresses the

  • "It made me proud to live in Ledbury"

    The family of Martin, Denise and Ryan McCoig-Lees say the community support at Wednesday's thanksgiving service could not have been better. Denise's mother Margaret Kennedy said: "It was a moving service. When my niece, Angie Tunstall, was doing her speech

  • New £3.5m DIY store on its way

    Developers plan to start building a £3.5m DIY superstore and garden centre on the Lower Road Trading estate in Ledbury this autumn. The facility could be open in time for the spring bank holiday weekend next May. Herefordshire Council's northern area

  • Pub owners want to turn Royal Hall into restaurant

    THE new owners of the Royal Oak Hotel in Ledbury say they hope to strike a deal today to buy the Royal Hall from the Eastnor Masonic Lodge. Ian Martin, of Timber Homes UK, said the area would then be used for extra restaurant space and as a function and

  • Housing plan gets go-ahead

    plans for social housing off Long Acres in Ledbury have been approved by Herefordshire Council in the face of local opposition. Four one-bedroomed flats and a two-bedroomed bungalow will be built for Elgar Housing, in a development described as 'infill

  • Group launch babysitting course

    Ledbury Youth First, in The Homend, is to launch a new series of courses teaching the basics of babysitting. The first session will take place on Tuesday, August 5, from 10am to 4pm, and will cover a babysitter's roles, rights and responsibilities and

  • Town will not be beaten by attack

    vandalism will not scupper Ledbury's hopes for success in the national Britain in Bloom finals. The pledge was made by Ledbury in Bloom chairman Tom Deane after vandals struck over the weekend. Their target was once again the Millennium Garden at the

  • Ledbury life put in focus by photograph discovery

    around 100 old photographs showing Ledbury life from 1900 to the mid-1960s have come into the possession of the Ledbury and District Society Trust. They are to be stored for posterity at the Butcher Row Museum in Church Lane, but society trustee Peter

  • HMS Ledbury is on the way home

    HMS Ledbury is about to return from operations in the Gulf to a warm welcome in Portsmouth. The minesweeper, which left the UK on January 20, will be met at Portsmouth by the mayor and mayoress of Ledbury, coun Keith Francis and Pam Juckes, and a delegation

  • August date for champ

    CABARET artist John H Stracey will be appearing at Bromyard's Conquest Theatre on Saturday, August 2. Organisers had published the wrong date in previous publicity to promote the event. For ticket details phone 01885 488575.

  • Exhibition is a first

    CIDER and ale houses past and present is the theme of a new exhibition in Bromyard. It is the first display by the Bromyard and District Local History Society from its new Sherford Street base, which the group moved into earlier this year. The centre

  • Fun from Colwall

    Colwall Parish Council has organised a host of activities for children during the summer holidays. A drama workshop is being held next Thursday at Colwall Village Hall and a high ropes course at Malvern Outdoors Centre. Activities will be held every Thursday

  • Councillor honoured with visit to palace

    YEARS of service by Coun Bill Offord to Newent Town Council have been recognised with an invitation to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. Coun Offord and his wife Cynthia were among 10,000 guests enjoying heatwave conditions at the palace last week.

  • Newsagents are to retire

    Newent newsagents Rodney and Margaret Gregson have decided to put their town centre business on the market and retire. Mr Gregson said: "As the shop is very demanding with long opening hours, Margaret and I have decided to sell". The couple bought the