Archive

  • Paul Keetch - I'm feeling fine

    HEREFORD'S MP says he's recovering by the hour from the mystery illness that struck him down on a trans-Atlantic flight on Sunday. Speaking from his hospital bed this evening (Friday) he told the Hereford Times: "I am a very lucky man, twice over. "

  • Cadbury case - court told of leaking pipe

    CADBURY knew that a leaking drainpipe at its Marlbrook plant near Leominster was a likely source of salmonella, months before environmental health investigators inspected the factory over a major national food poisoning outbreak, a court heard. The pipe

  • New Rules

    WEEE!!!!!!!! New rules came into force last week to encourage the recycling of electrical goods - mobile phones, TVs, computers and washing machines. Toxic metals from dumped electrical equipment pose a serious environmental threat. To coincide with the

  • Road closure after car overturns

    A HEREFORDSHIRE road has been briefly closed after a car crashed near Staunton-on-Wye and needed to be removed by a recovery vehicle. Police received a call at around 11.10am on Friday, from the driver of a silver Honda Accord which had overturned

  • Cadbury in court

    A COURT has heard how chocolate crumb was transferred from the Cadbury plant at Marlbrook, near Leominster, into the company's main production process without the results of salmonella tests being confirmed. Birmingham Crown Court was told today (Friday

  • Rifles coming to Hereford

    MUSIC will ring out when the county's regiment gather on Hereford's Castle Green. The Band & Bugles of the Rifles will perform their "Sounding Retreat" ceremony from 6.15pm on Saturday, July 21. The Rifles, Herefordshire's county regiment which is the

  • Councillor's horror at Rotherwas ribbon secrecy

    A HEREFORDSHIRE councillor has accused Herefordshire Council of 'cultural vandalism of the highest order'. Recently elected Green councillor Gerald Dawe, in whose ward the 'Rotherwas Ribbon' lies, is horrified the site is to be concreted over for a

  • MP out of intensive care

    HEREFORD MP Paul Keetch has been moved out of an intensive care unit at the London Chest Hospital. The Liberal Democrat politician fell seriously ill while on board a flight to the USA on Sunday. The Virgin 747 was turned back to Heathrow and Mr

  • Drama in mid-Atlantic flight

    HEREFORD MP Paul Keetch remains seriously ill and under intensive care at a London hospital today (Thursday) after collapsing unconscious on a flight to the US. Mr Keetch, aged 46, had stopped breathing before flight crew and fellow passengers brought

  • Protests build to save Rotherwas 'snake'

    HUNDREDS of people have hit out at plans to continue building the Rotherwas relief road after a 4,000-year-old monument was found in its path. But despite protests its construction will continue and the archaeological discovery, which is thought to have

  • Snake shaped ribbon

    A MAJOR archaeological find, of international significance, has been discovered on the outskirts of Hereford. But the 4,000-year-old monument will be hidden undergound because it stands in the way of the Rotherwas relief road. So the newly-discovered

  • What Elgar means to me, by Liam Dunachie

    AS an 18 year-old involved in the Hereford music-making scene throughout my school career, having been a chorister in the cathedral choir and more recently having led the Herefordshire Youth Orchestra, the cult of Edward Elgar has always lurked near the

  • Three cheers for Three Tuns

    HAY-ON-WYE's oldest public house is reopening its doors under new ownership after an extensive renovation of the building which was ravaged by a fire more than two years ago. The Three Tuns has undergone a year of careful restoration of features such

  • MP out of intensive care

    HEREFORD MP Paul Keetch has been moved out of an intensive care unit at the London Chest Hospital. The Liberal Democrat politician fell seriously ill while on board a flight to the USA on Sunday. The Virgin 747 was turned back to Heathrow and Mr Keetch

  • What Elgar means to me, by Roy Massey

    ELGAR once said that to hear his choral works at their best you should listen to them performed in a cathedral, where the building itself would give to the performance a very special quality. There is great truth in this, as I found during my 27

  • What Elgar means to me by Simon Mundy

    EDWARD Elgar was a great post-romantic composer in a European generation that included his close friend Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Glazunov. He was caught in an era between Brahms and Stravinsky so that now he seems far more conservative

  • Essays about the real man

    A COLLECTION of essays on Edward Elgar has been published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of his birth. Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait is edited and introduced by Nicholas Kenyon and includes chapters written by Yehudi Menuhin, Christopher Kent

  • Mingle with the stars at the Tack Barn barbecue

    IMAGINE sharing a hot dog or burger with some of the country's top event riders while they chat about their rise through the ranks, and share the secrets of buying top event horses. Well now the opportunity is here. On Wednesday, July 25, the North Herefordshire

  • Organic farmer takes the top spot in grassland competition

    Leading honours in the Hereford Grassland Society's 2007 summer grassland competition have gone to Monnington-on-Wye farmer, Edward Pearson-Gregory. The outright winner of the award, Mr Pearson-Gregory farms Dairy House Farm and is an honorary member

  • Where the works find their natural beauty

    IN the late summer of 1933, Edward Elgar conducted his Dream of Gerontius - relating the journey of a man's soul from this world to whatever lies thereafter - in Hereford Cathedral. Within a few months England's greatest composer was on his own deathbed

  • 'Great music can be written here'

    IT has taken Hereford a long time to appreciate and acknowledge the part it played in arguably the most creative and productive period in the life of Sir Edward Elgar.

  • Big cat sightings are examined in detail

    Livestock keepers across the UK are being asked to take part in an online survey to see whether or not they believe in the existence of wild big cats that have been blamed for killing a lamb belonging to controversial TV chef Gordon Ramsay. The F-Word

  • Heifer’s championship win in Royal Show debut

    A Herefordshire-bred Aberdeen Angus heifer took the breed's female championship for breeder Jeremy Price on his debut at the country's top livestock show, the Royal Show at Stoneleigh. Mr Price, of Oakchurch Farm, Staunton-on-Wye, took two heifers to

  • Bishop takes up cause of farmers hit by severe floods

    THE Bishop of Hereford, the Rt Rev Anthony Priddis travelled to Yorkshire this week to speak to farmers severely affected by the recent floods. And while talking to hard-hit farmers at the Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate, the bishop had at the back

  • CHURCH SERVICES

    Hereford Cathedral: 8am, Holy Communion; 10am, Eucharist; 11.30am, Morning Prayer; 3.30pm, Royal British Legion Parade Service. All Saints: 10.30am, Sung Mass with Children's Church. St Peter: 8am, Holy Communion; 10.30am, Morning Worship. St James

  • The Falklands 25 years on

    AT the end of May 1982, Herefordshire suffered a double blow after the loss of 18 SAS soldiers in a helicopter crash and the destruction of the county's adopted ship, HMS Antelope. The 18 soldiers from the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment died along

  • WHAT'S ON

    Events/talks til September 20, Guided historic walks, weekdays 11am, Sundays 2.30pm. Tourist Information Centre, opp Hereford Cathedral. July 12 Talk, Managing Ponds for Wildlife by Will Watson, Eaton Bishop Village Hall, 7.30pm.Call Herefordshire

  • Perfect backdrop to Bathsheba’s tangled love life

    THE beautiful gardens of Hergest Croft will provide the perfect backdrop for Theatreworks' production of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd on Sunday. The captivating and passionate story of the spirited Bathsheba Everdene and her tangled love

  • Eco-friendly FWAG

    FARMING has been through three phases since the end of the Second World War. During the first phase, food was still rationed. Farmers were cajoled into producing all they could. It was a period that saw a rapid uptake in farm mechanisation and new production

  • School’s (almost) out for summer

    WITH the school summer holidays almost upon us, the Hereford Times is compiling a wide selection of boredom busters to see you through to September ... come rain or shine. Whether you go for big activities, small activities, energetic or slightly slower

  • If you go down to the woods on Sunday...

    TEDDY bears and their children are invited to join in the fun at Sunday's teddy bears' picnic at Croft Castle. Bears and their accompanying children will be given free entry to the event at the National Trust property, where families can enjoy following

  • Star turn by dancers

    A HUGELY enthusiastic audience enjoyed the return of 2 FaCeD DaNcE Company to the Courtyard stage on Thursday with their new show, ReWind. The company, led by award-winning choreographer Tamsin Fitzgerald, gets better and better - and this was the best

  • Water theme

    WATER is the subject chosen by Ludlow 21 and Ludlow Photographic Club to be the theme of the photography competition they've organised as part of the ongoing Ludlow Green Festival activities. The competition is open to all, and the last date for photographic

  • Acclaimed Welsh voices will sing out

    THE multi-award winning and internationally acclaimed Cwmbach Male Choir return to Hereford for a fourth time on Saturday. The 60-strong choir will be demonstrating its talent for superb close harmony as members sing uplifting hymns and songs at the

  • Festival’s rich mix

    THE late arrival of one of the star turns at last week's Ledbury Poetry Festival has given director Chloe Garner an idea for next year's event. When Jerry Hall found herself snarled up in Friday night traffic en route to Ledbury, performance poet A F

  • Students learn the lingo at prestigious university

    HEREFORD Sixth Form students got a taste of undergraduate life when they attended lectures and seminars at one of the country's most prestigious universities. The A-level Spanish group took part in the University of Bristol's modern languages summer

  • Once in a lifetime

    THE excitement is building in one Herefordshire village as full-cast rehearsals for a unique community event start in earnest and booking opens for The Crowns of Cradley. The production features a cast, if not of thousands, certainly of more than a hundred

  • Signing up

    BRECON Pharmaceuticals, based in Hay-on-Wye, and one of the largest employers in the area, has joined the Chamber of Commerce, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. MD and president John Bath said: "We are very pleased to become a member and look forward

  • Tyrrells make it three in a row and head for the awards finals

    LEOMINSTER'S Tyrrells Potato Chips has, for the third year in a row, won The AXA Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year Award in the Midlands and East of England regional heat of the 2007 National Business Awards. Presented with the accolade at a

  • 1,000-mile ride

    A HEREFORDSHIRE cyclist is planning to raise money for Cancer Research by making a 1,000-mile trip through six countries, from Amsterdam to Cardiff. Sam Callegari's journey will take him through the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France

  • Daisy’s winning way

    A HEREFORD schoolgirl has won a nationwide competition to design a T-shirt for Fat Face. Daisy Gibson, a second year pupil at Hereford Cathedral School was awarded first place in a national design competition launched by the clothes shop last year.

  • ‘Ozzy’ is a real knockout

    IN Pembridge, not everything is always as it seems, as competitors at the Party in the Park found out when they were entertained by an Ozzy Osbourne look-a-like. Ozzy' was warming up 24 teams before they took part in the It's a Knockout roadshow to raise

  • The Governor listens to local companies

    HEREFORD welcomed a very special guest when the Governor of the Bank of England made a flying visit to the city. Mervyn King held a two hour sharing of information session' at the Left Bank Village with county business leaders, farmers and retailers.

  • Family is in seventh heaven

    TINY Francis Richards was born lucky, weighing in at exactly seven pounds on the seventh day of the seventh month of 2007. With couples around the world trying to time their baby to what is claimed to be the luckiest day of the century, Francis gave

  • A tough challenge for brave Robin

    LIFE has already had some cruel twists for Robin Butler, aged 13. He had to undergo life-saving open heart surgery when he was four days old and has grown up knowing that his sister Augusta died in her cot at the age of three weeks. Robin, who goes

  • Former Bulls line up new clubs

    TWO of last season's Hereford United squad are close to lining up deals elsewhere. Goalkeeper Glyn Thompson has agreed to sign for BlueSq Conference South side Newport County. And full-back Alex Jeannin has been offered a deal with Conference Premier