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  • New town bus service hailed as success story

    Ledbury town councillors are hailing a new town bus service as a success story, just five months after it welcomed its first passengers on board. The praise follows a consultant's report on its performance so far. Welcoming the report at last week's planning

  • Buy home-produced meat and you can rely on its safety

    THE National Farmers Union has urged consumers to buy British after five animals imported from France, as part of post-FMD restocking measures, gave a reaction in blood tests for brucellosis during recent post-import checks. One of the animals, in a consignment

  • Whitecross School move gets the go-ahead

    ONE of the county's biggest schools will be brand new by 2005. Government gave the go-ahead to a £14 million move for Hereford's Whitecross High this week - at the third time of asking. The school, with around 830 pupils on the roll, has long been recognised

  • End of an era as local firm shuts up shop

    THE 'boss' and eight employees averaging 26.5 years service each, prepare to shut up shop at the agricultural engineering business of D G Games in Weobley. For David Davies, David Baugh, Chesley Price and Richard Bayliss, closure of the business will

  • As one door closes another opens for county agri-business

    A Herefordshire agri-business has proved that while farming remains in troubled times the old saying of 'as one door closes another opens' is as true today as ever. As S and A Produce (UK) Ltd., of Marden, near Hereford, decided to move out of its potato

  • Hereford United 1 Chester City 0

    Tuesday, March 26, 2002 HEREFORD United moved a step closer to preserving their Nationwide Conference status with a 1-0 win last night over Chester City at Edgar Street. A sixth-minute 25-yard deflected strike from captain Ian Wright was enough to seal