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  • Pupils play part in store opening

    PUPILS from a city school have helped open a £120,000 new-look food store in Hereford. The children, from St Martin's Primary School, officially launched the revamped Co-op store on Holme Lacy Road - and were handed £200 towards school funds by

  • Free health checks

    AN offer to give people free health checks on the spine and pelvis has been extended at the Hereford Centre for Natural Health at Belmont. With the gardening season coming into full swing and outdoor jobs waiting to be done many suffer bad back

  • Collision at Lower Bullingham

    A BUSY Hereford road was closed after a collision involving three cars. The Straight Mile (B4399), at Lower Bullingham, was closed both ways at around 1pm today near the junction with Netherwood Road following a collision in Faculty Lane. It has since

  • Robbery at Ledbury shop

    CASH was stolen in a robbery at a Ledbury shop. Police are appealing for information following the robbery at the Wine Rack store in Ledbury High Street on Friday evening (March 21). A small amount of cash was taken after a man entered the store and

  • Children campaign to cut speed limit

    COUNTY youngsters have gone to Herefordshire Council in a bid to slow traffic outside their school. Children at Burghill Primary School are fighting for a 20mph speed limit outside their school. Around 20 youngsters were at Hereford Shire Hall

  • New care complex plan

    DEVELOPERS will again try to build a residential care complex for elderly people on vacant land in Hereford. Herefordshire planners rejected the scheme last year saying the Faraday Road site, which was formerly used by Sun Valley, had been earmarked

  • Motorcyclist named following fatal accident

    THE motorcyclist who died following a collision on a Herefordshire road at the weekend has been named. Phillip Paul, aged 39, from Goodrich, died following an accident on Saturday (March 22) on the A438, near Ledbury. Police are appealing for witnesses

  • Essex model could save post offices

    HEREFORDSHIRE Council should follow the lead of its Essex counterparts and take over the running of county post offices threatened with closure, says Jesse Norman, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Hereford and south Herefordshire. He believes

  • Pool's future is uncertain

    A SWIMMING pool where generations of Hereford children learned front crawl and backstroke may never open again. The Local Education Authority (LEA) pool in Hollybush Walk, Hinton, was closed before Christmas because of a broken boiler and other

  • Westfields v Stratford Town

    Westfields squad for Thursday's Polymac Services Midland Alliance at allpay.park WESTFIELDS v STRATFORD TOWN 1. JON PUGH 2. PAUL ALLAM 3. MARK HIBBARD 4. TOM SPAREY 5. SCOTT JACKSON 6. TERRY GREEN 7. JAMIE

  • Mystery of this building is revealed

    THE mystery behind the scaffolding covering the landmark building on Hereford's Belmont roundabout can be revealed. When the wraps come off it will open as a wine retail store. Majestic Wine Warehouses, with a HQ in Watford and 145 stores in the

  • SKENFRITH

    BILL MACADAM HISTORY GROUP This group meets again on Friday March 28th at 7.30pm at Hilston Park. The speakers will be Joan and Bryan Thomas talking about 'Garway Hill through the Ages'. They have recently published a book of this title. This will

  • SKENFRITH

    YOGA CLASSES Yoga classes in Skenfrith village Hall have finished for the Easter break and will resume on April 24th. Arrangements for the Summer Term are as follows: Thursdays from 5.30 - 7.00pm. Dates are: April 24th, May 8th, 22nd,29th; June 5th

  • Town crier festival is axed

    A FALTERING economy has led to the cancellation of a much-loved county event. There will be no raised voices in Bromyard this year, as the International Town Criers Festival has been pulled. The annual festival attracts visitors from across the

  • Students dress to please

    ART students put their skills into practice when they dressed the window of a Hereford charity shop. The St Michael's Hospice store gave the teenagers a pile of clothes and free rein to come up with some fashionable designs. Hereford College of