HEREFORD United will visit Premiership side Birmingham City in the second round of the Carling Cup. The match will take place in the week beginning August 27, with Tuesday, August 28 the most likely date, unless the game is scheduled for TV coverage.
Enjoy lunchtime jazz in Hereford Cathedral's Chapter House Garden with Bev Gough and Ben Thomas. Get a taste of the Caribbean tonight at the Royal Oak in Ledbury. Step back in time this evening with The Bootleg Beatles at the The Three Coutnies Showground
THE MP for Hereford is planning to hit the road just weeks after leaving intensive care. It's business as usual for Paul Keetch, who could appear at three advice surgeries in the county next month. The Liberal Democrat is still recovering from the
DOG lovers in north Herefordshire have the chance to meet one of the UK's leading dog trainers. The Marches Ringcraft Club are holding an evening with Mary Ray, who is famous for her annual Crufts routines, at Leominster Bridge Street Sports Centre.
ANYONE at a loose end next month is invited to two free workshops aimed at giving county residents the chance to take part in something different. The first will teach people the art of basket making. It takes place at Madley Environment Centre from
A £150,000 state-of-the-art mobile chemotherapy unit is coming to Ross every week as part of a trial. The unit, which can give patients their treatment nearer home, is the first of its kind in the country and parks in the grounds of Ross Community Hospital
MONEY raised from the sale of greeting cards in Ross-on-Wye is to be donated to the County Air Ambulance. Liz Tidsall, the owner of the Card Shop, Market Place, decided to give 20% of the price of a range of charity cards to the service, and is full
CONCERT - A free informal concert featuring some members of Hereford's Bandemonium band - along with Eastern European and Russian musicians and singers from the strawberry farms at Brierley and Marden - will be held tomorrow (Friday) at 7.30pm, at St
COWPATS - The Community Access Point based at Preston on Wye Village Hall opening times are: Wednesdays 6pm to 7pm for under 16s, 7pm to 9pm for everyone, and Saturdays from 9.30am to noon. There is also a summer special running throughout the summer
GRANTS FOR FURTHER EDUCATION - A reminder that any young person wishing to apply for a grant should do so now. The grants are for school leavers going on to further education and applicants must have lived in the parish of Bosbury for at least three years
SUMMER ORGAN MUSIC - This continues in Dore Abbey on Saturday with David Murray as the guest organist. He is director of the BBC National Chorus and Chorus of Wales. Coffee is served at 11am and the music starts at 11.30am and lasts for about 45 minutes
EMMA CARPENTER, of Sheridan Road, Whitecross, posted this comment at herefordtimes.com: "I would like to say thanks to the driver who knocked over our 10-month-old beautiful kitten Molly (above), sometime between Monday, August 6, and Wednesday, August
After reading Mr Laudon's moving letter about Scout in the paper, I felt an additional letter was required to bring to light the problem we have in Eardisland with cars exceeding the 30mph speed limit. I feel certain further accidents are imminent unless
MR HYMAN (Hereford Times, August 2), is quite wrong to make a political issue out of post office closures, and I am afraid he is wrong about the facts too. The save our post offices' campaign is entirely non-partisan. Our meetings have been widely advertised
MAY we blow away the smokescreen of the pseudo liberals and the bandwaggoning secularists and look at the facts? According to the reports, Mr Reaney had just emerged from an active five year homosexual relationship. He was not prepared to give an unequivocal
A Ludlow retailer showcasing the finest locally produced food from the region is the recipient of the latest Hereford Times/Baker Tilly Trailblazer Award for serving the community. The Ludlow Food Centre in Bromfield, part of the Earl of Plymouth Estates
THE new season at The Courtyard kicks off on September 6 in great style with a brand new production of The Hired Man, a musical hailed by Sheridan Morley on its initial appearance as "the best musical of the year... unbeatable and unmissable". But there's
BRITAIN'S greatest New Orleans jazz musician, a man renowned the world over as one of the very finest clarinettists in jazz, is appearing in Cradley Church on Saturday. A headlining attraction at many of Europe's most prestigious jazz festivals, Sammy
THE creator of one of the most famous characters in children's books, Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, will be at Waterstones in Hereford on Saturday. Ian Whybrow will be visiting Waterstones and reading from his own books as part of the store's
A WORLD premiere takes place tomorrow (Friday) at Hereford's Holy Trinity Church when the latest choral work from composer Edwin Roxburgh is performed by the Hereford International Summer School Choir. The composer has taken the future of the planet
THE Malvern Music Experience offers two very different outdoor concerts this weekend as one of the biggest tribute bands of them all, the Bootleg Beatles, play on Friday, followed on Saturday by the well-known English Symphony Orchestra with A Tribute
Events/talks til September 20, Guided historic walks, weekdays 11am, Sundays 2.30pm. Tourist Information Centre, opp Hereford Cathedral. Aug 20-24 Drama Summer School, Open to 7-11year olds, Kilpeck Village Hall, 9am-1pm. 07811145608/9. 23 and 25
HEREFORDSHIRE'S young dressage riders have returned from the International Under-21 UK Summer Championships at Addington Manor Eques-trian Centre in Buckingham with 10 first places. The four-strong county representation of Lucy Pincus, Laura Wollen,
BOCKLETON rider Rosie Thomas has returned from the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park with a top prize. The 26-year-old, riding Barry's Best, carried off the Hamptons Inter-national Trophy in the British Open class. Thomas has trained Barry's
GLADESTRY rider Richard Jones has beaten off competition from all over the country to win his class at the Trailblazer Champ-ionships at Stoneleigh. Twenty-one-year-old Jones was one of around 30,000 competitors who entered for the heats of the competition
HEREFORD and District Riding Club have won at the British Riding Clubs Senior Open Dressage Area 15 Qualifier at Chepstow Racecourse. The winning riding test team consisted of Gemma Dyke (Springfield Shadow Dancer), Karen Gardiner (Regal Rumour), Dido
WITH the continuing poor summer and horses having to cope with muddy conditions and a lack of outings, Herefordshire riders did not disgrace themselves but had to settle for bridesmaid positions at West Wilts, Trowbridge, horse trials. Due to the very
HERDS from Hereford-shire and Worcestershire took top honours when members of the Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association announced the results of the Hereford Herd Competition. This year's contest drew a record number of entries from 28 herds for the
ORDERS for breeding stock from Russia, worth £1m to pig-breeding company ACMC and due to be shipped in September and November, have been placed in jeopardy as a result of the foot and mouth disease outbreak, the company has announced. It also predicts
THE deputy president of the NFU, Meurig Raymond, paid a visit to Herefordshire last week to talk to farmers who have been badly affected by the adverse weather over the last few months, and to see the damage first hand. Mr Raymond told farmers: "We
Hereford United 4 Yeovil Town 1 HEREFORD booked their place in the second round of the Carling Cup for the second year running with a scintillating first-half display against their old Southern League and Conference rivals on Tuesday
KINGTON'S Junior Open was played in strong winds and, considering the conditions, some of the scores in the gross section were outstanding. The host club's Ross Moore was certainly up the challenge and won with a round of 79. Results, gross: 1 Ross
MARK Lewis and Becky Lloyd were the winners of the Dixon Cup for the annual mixed championships at Burghill Valley. They recorded a gross 89 in the foursomes medal competition to claim the trophy. Brian and Lynda Vaughan were first in the nett score
HEREFORD golfer Kris Jones left no stone unturned in his preparation for this week's final of the Powerade PGA Assistants' Championship. The 20-year-old classes the tournament as the biggest he will have played in and, as a result, his attention to detail
HEREFORDSHIRE Women's Bowling Association's county championships were finally completed at the second attempt on Tuesday. The competition had originally been due to take place on July 21, only to be washed out by the mid-summer deluge. And things did
A PERSHORE collapse rekindled Brockhampton's title hopes at the top of Crusader Worcestershire County League Division 1. With the game delicately poised, home team Pershore lost their last eight wickets for 12 runs to leave Brockhampton comfortable
COLWALL cruised to a comfortable five-wicket victory at Stowe Lane, chasing down the visitors total of 227-9 with three overs to spare to maintain their 39-point lead at the top of Division 3 in the Worcestershire County League. Both teams were missing
HEREFORDSHIRE skipper Chris Boroughs led from the front as a county select side beat Peter Scudamore's invitation team by 15 runs at Eastnor last Sunday. The county captain provided the batting power as he cruised to 72 from only 42 balls with five fours
MONMOUTH eased their relegation fears with a dramatic three-wicket home win over fellow strugglers Luctonians in Division 2 of the Crusader Worcestershire County League. Monmouth appeared to be heading for a losing draw until a Charlie Bye half-century
DALES skipper Chris Chadd took the honours for the top score of the day in the Flint & Cook Marches league as he led the Division 4 title-chasers to a 119-run success against Hereford City 2nd. Chadd cracked a monumental unbeaten 181 as he shared an
GARNONS' title challenge in Division 1 of the Flint & Cook Marches League suffered a second successive setback when they went down by 81 runs at home to Kington 3rd. After winning the toss and electing to bat, Kington made a rapid start despite the loss
Hereford United 0 Rotherham United 0 HEREFORD'S new skipper Karl Broad-hurst was disappointed that his side had not marked their opening Coca-Cola League 2 game of the season with a win. "We had a couple of good chances and feel that we should have
THE opening day of the season brings its usual problems. It was an exceptionally hot day, given the weather we have had this summer. The players, although they had been training in that sort of heat for the previous couple of days, were certainly not
Boldmere St Michael's 0 Westfields 2 GOALS from Jamie Cuss and Danny Moon earned Westfields the best possible start to their Polymac Services Midland Alliance season. But the city side had another hero in goalkeeper Jon Pugh who pulled off some vital
Boldmere St Michael's 0 Westfields 2 GOALS from Jamie Cuss and Danny Moon earned Westfields the best possible start to their Polymac Services Midland Alliance season. But the city side had another hero in goalkeeper Jon Pugh who pulled off some vital
Ledbury Town 1 Dudley Sports 0 LEDBURY got their Sport Italia West Midlands League Premier Division season off to a winning start with a solid defensive display. The New Street side threatened in the early stages when Paul Edwards
Pegasus Juniors 1 Badshot Lea 2 TWO first-half goals by promoted Badshot Lea ensured a disappointing opening day of the Sport Italia Hellenic League Premier Division season for Juniors. It was the home side who threatened in the early
BARGAIN hunters will be able to have their antiques valued by a TV expert at the Maylord shopping centre next week. Mark Stacey will be at the Antiques and Collectables roadshow at the centre on Wednesday. He will value visitors items for free and give
A CHINESE takeaway owner has told how he fought off an armed intruder in his Hereford shop. Dong Qing Dong was forced to fend off a knife-wielding attacker who demanded money and stabbed his till. The attacker entered the New Lucky House takeaway in
HERDS from Hereford-shire and Worcestershire took top honours when members of the Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association announced the results of the Hereford Herd Competition. This year's contest drew a record number of entries from 28 herds for the
THE deputy president of the NFU, Meurig Raymond, paid a visit to Herefordshire last week to talk to farmers who have been badly affected by the adverse weather over the last few months, and to see the damage first hand. Mr Raymond told farmers: "We
A Ludlow retailer showcasing the finest locally produced food from the region is the recipient of the latest Hereford Times/Baker Tilly Trailblazer Award for serving the community. The Ludlow Food Centre in Bromfield, part of the Earl of Plymouth Estates
CHILDREN at a Herefordshire school have been finding out where their food comes from. St Michael's Primary School, in Bodenham, is to use fresh produce supplied by the Houghton Project, based just one mile from the school, and so a number of pupils visited
HEREFORD County Hospital is stepping up its fight against infections - but it says it can't win the war without the co-operation of visitors. It recently used the reception area to catch the attention of visitors with a life-size "germ" handing out leaflets
A LEOMINSTER man who says he has helped thousands of pain sufferers wants to repeat his success in Hereford. Like millions of people across the UK, Paul Conlon knows a thing or two about back pain, having endured three spinal operations. But he insists
A LETTER of thanks to the lady and gentleman who came to my assistance when I stumbled and fell crossing the road towards Laura Ashley in High Town on August 7; for the kind words of support, the tissues for a bleeding nose and the pillow to rest my
I HAVE been waiting for someone to write about the acceptance by Hereford Cathedral and associated churches of large amounts of gambling-derived money from the lottery. The Bishop is very careful about ethical investments, so it is all in good hands.
YOU report (Hereford Times, July 19) that John Reaney, backed and funded by the homosexual pressure group Stonewall, is "delighted the Bishop of Hereford has lost this case". So much for Christian charity. Haven't I read somewhere about loving your enemies
I READ the letters on the Bishop of Hereford with sadness and the one by David Murray (Conflicts have their roots in religion) in particular. It is worthy of reflection that the Cardiff employment tribunal made the decision. Link this with the atheist
MAY we blow away the smokescreen of the pseudo liberals and the bandwaggoning secularists and look at the facts? According to the reports, Mr Reaney had just emerged from an active five year homosexual relationship. He was not prepared to give an unequivocal
AN important question arises from the case of the Bishop of Hereford and the gay youth worker, as it does over the Roman Catholic Adoption Agency and adoption by gay couples. That is: Where should the line be drawn between what ought to remain a matter
THE proposed closure of 2,500 post offices throughout England is worrying, with the impact to the rural Herefordshire community enormous. It will lead to the most vulnerable losing a vital service and hardships as a consequence. The number of closures
MR HYMAN (Hereford Times, August 2), is quite wrong to make a political issue out of post office closures, and I am afraid he is wrong about the facts too. The save our post offices' campaign is entirely non-partisan. Our meetings have been widely advertised
IT'S tricky to establish where Malcolm Scott was when he took the photo you reproduced in your letters page (August 9) without knowing what time in the evening the photo was taken, but it may be a view of Strangford Farm House with the long thin field
MAY I, through the Hereford Times, send my profound gratitude to all who contributed to my joy and delight for my 100th birthday. To Dilwyn Church Council for the superb service and all those who attended; to Dilwyn Parish Council for the permanent seat
I AM disappointed you chose to publish (Hereford Times, August 9), a letter under the heading "Madness to look at re-organisation now" from a correspondent who, as far as your readers are concerned, is anonymous. I don't generally respond to such letters
MY wife was having her hair done in Kington last week when a man from Herefordshire Council came in and asked the proprietress to remove two small bay trees in tubs either side of the front door in the high street before a planned second inspection next
EMMA CARPENTER, of Sheridan Road, Whitecross, posted this comment at herefordtimes.com: "I would like to say thanks to the driver who knocked over our 10-month-old beautiful kitten Molly (above), sometime between Monday, August 6, and Wednesday, August
After reading Mr Laudon's moving letter about Scout in the paper, I felt an additional letter was required to bring to light the problem we have in Eardisland with cars exceeding the 30mph speed limit. I feel certain further accidents are imminent unless
BACK in 1989 Sue and Bob Marshall, concerned at a lack of nursery schools in the area, decided to open up their family home and start their own. Today, the Oak House Nursery at Brampton Abbotts is still going from strength to strength, having looked
HOLDING aloft an apple like a rural Statue of Liberty, he towered over a car park, watching the masses do their weekly shopping. But six years of statuesque behaviour have taken their toll on Mercia Man. The knight of Gaol Street was feeling rough after
A BUILDER has been killed at a school on the north Herefordshire border. Mark Evans, aged 40, a bricklayer from Normandie Close, Ludlow, died after a large wooden building fell on him at Moor Park School, near Richards Castle. Emergency services were
HEREFORD student Ben Guy spent the first four weeks of his life in a special care baby unit and he now wants to show his gratitude to the doctors who kept him alive. Ben, along with friends Alex Clark, Ben Bridgewater and James Ford, is planning to cycle
FIVE of Herefordshire's hottest young bands are teaming up to raise money for a new skate park in Leominster. Mars Bonfire, Ten Thousand Flushes, Toasted Egg Sandwich, Catch Fire and Target Alexa have all agreed to play for free at a concert dubbed Skate
HEREFORDSHIRE schools affected by last month's flooding will share more than £85,000 in recovery grants. The £86,560 sum is part of a national £4 million package from the Department for Children, Schools and Families to help areas worst affected by the
AFTER the summer's record rainfall, there is good news at least for Hereford's flood defence scheme. Work is well under way on the Environment Agency programme, with new flood embankments being built close to the city's Leisure Pool. Morrison Construction
AN insurance company and DIY firm have teamed up to offer help to south Herefordshire flood victims. Focus has offered a 20% total discount to Ross-on-Wye residents to help with their clean-up costs. Victims can claim the reduction through community
A HEREFORDSHIRE primary school teacher has retired after 30 years. Maureen Westwood has spent the last 18 years of her teaching career at Weobley Primary School and, in recent years, taught the reception class. Headteacher Geoff Williams said: "Mrs
LEOMINSTER might need more children to make its planned £20 million "superschool" work. Herefordshire Council's cabinet will hear today (Thursday) that an all new Minster College could be left wanting students unless the number of children in the town
BUSINESSES throughout Herefordshire have been slow to back a challenge to raise £100,000 for the Macmillan Renton Appeal for a new cancer unit at the County Hospital. More than 200 letters have been sent to companies both large and small but, so far,
MONEY raised from the sale of greeting cards in Ross-on-Wye is to be donated to the County Air Ambulance. Liz Tidsall, the owner of the Card Shop, Market Place, decided to give 20% of the price of a range of charity cards to the service, and is full
A £150,000 state-of-the-art mobile chemotherapy unit is coming to Ross every week as part of a trial. The unit, which can give patients their treatment nearer home, is the first of its kind in the country and parks in the grounds of Ross Community Hospital
A REVELLER who bit a man during a night out in Hereford has been given a 12-month community order. William Teale, aged 21, bit the nose of a clubber at Play nightclub on April 6, leaving his victim with a two-centimetre gash that needed specialist treatment
RUBBISH dumped by fly-tippers has blocked roads around the city's southern boundary. There has been a growing amount of discarded rubbish in the villages of Grafton and Callow and Herefordshire Council is investigating the problem. A lane close to Callow
A CHINESE takeaway owner has told how he fought off an armed intruder in his Hereford shop. Dong Qing Dong was forced to fend off a knife-wielding attacker who was demanding money. The attacker entered the New Lucky House takeaway in Whitecross last
A GROUNDBREAKING plan to bring nearly 400 new jobs to the county - many of them in high-tech research and development sectors - can be revealed this week. Several companies, including start-ups making the leap from home to office, are already lined up
THE 72nd annual Ross-on-Wye Horticultural show was a big success last weekend. Entrants took part in a wide variety of classes ranging from flowers, vegetables, home crafts, jam, cake, honey and wine making and flower arranging. There were also special
HEREFORD City Sports Club has been offered a last-ditch deal to secure its survival after losing a major planning appeal over the earthwork bund around its land. A planning inspector has said the 600-metre long bund at the club's Hereford Racecourse
A HEREFORDSHIRE fire station has welcomed its first woman recruit. Nicola Lawley has joined the retained service in Ledbury and will start her full training next month. "The guys at the station have been great. They really helped me to prepare for the
RESULTS from one of the biggest consultation exercises ever in Herefordshire are in and more than half the answers favour a Public Service Trust to run the county. All told, Herefordshire Council and Herefordshire Primary Care Trust received 218 separate
HAVING stood for centuries as a testament to faith, Herefordshire's "remarkable" churchyard crosses now need some faith shown in them. Five of the crosses, all scheduled ancient monuments, are already in such a bad state that English Heritage thinks
HEREFORD has been invaded by 5,000 plastic ducks. The city's Rotary Club took delivery of the ducks as they prepare for their Charity Wye Duck Race. People have the chance to pay £2 and become the owner' of one of the ducks, which will be pitted
TWO men died on Herefordshire's roads on a busy weekend for the emergency services. A pedestrian was killed in Hereford, a motorist died in Whitchurch and two other serious accidents also happened within hours of each other on Saturday. Stephen John
A HEREFORD historical treasure could be available for viewing to a worldwide audience if it wins a competition. The 13th century manuscript bequeathed to Hereford Cathedral has been shortlisted for the British Library's "Hidden Treasures Brought To Life
ONE of Hereford United's most well-loved fans has died at the age of 60. Danny Lee, who mixed football with entertaining and fundraising, passed away on Monday following a battle with cancer. Music was a huge passion of Danny's and in the early 1970s
THOUSANDS of spectators gathered to watch as planes filled the north Herefordshire skies. They were visiting the annual Shobdon Airfield open weekend and watching the spectacular scenes as more than 20 aircraft dived towards the finish line in one of
A WOMAN died after losing control of her vehicle and colliding with an oncoming car on the opposite side of the road, an inquest heard. Joanne Purdy's silver Peugeot 106 veered across the B4362 and hit a vehicle just after a tight left-hand bend approaching
HEREFORD'S Royal National College for the Blind is clear to go for gold with the £6 million sale of its old orchards for housing. The college will invest the money in sports facilities fit to play a part in the 2012 Paralympics. Bloor Homes has bought
ALL the signs point to a serious accident, but "stupid" motorists on the A49 out of Leominster think they know best. The Highways Agency says drivers have been putting lives on the white line by ignoring diversion warnings and heading the wrong way up
Two vehicles in Kington were damaged -apparently by a person walking on top of them. On August 11/12 a blue Subaru Justy and a grey VW Passatt were left with dented bonnets overnight. Several other vehicles are also believed to have been walked over
