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  • Peterchurch - The Work that Reconnects at Rainbow View

    Personal power for the planet. April 25th - 27th 2008, Golden Valley, Herefordshire This participatory weekend workshop includes creative ways to strengthen our connection with each other, our community and our world. How do we turn painful feelings

  • Darryn's golden moment

    A FORMER Kington pupil is to meet Prince Philip after completing the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. Darryn Edwards, a founder member of Lady Hawkins' School's Duke of Edinburgh Club, will receive his award from the prince at St James' Palace

  • Deli owner hunts pictures from the past

    THE owners of a Leominster shop are counting on readers to uncover its past. Barber & Manuel, the delicatessen and grocery store, is being refurbished for the 21st century. A coffee shop and upstairs lunchtime restaurant are planned at the Victoria

  • Smooth driving can cut the cost of motoring

    HEREFORD Times news editor Ian Morris has been continuing his course with the Herefordshire Advanced Motorists. He has now been out on five drives with his observer Robin Turner and this week made his way down to the county's only motorway. "The

  • Fit for purpose

    HEREFORD Leisure Centre has been rated fifth in the country for public leisure services and has joined Ross Swimming Pool in being rated as within the top 10% of public leisure facilities nationwide. The accolade comes from Quest, the UK quality

  • Owners on alert as dogs disappear

    DOG owners are being warned to be vigilant after a number of pets have gone missing in south Herefordshire. Several owners have reported their dogs missing to the police and don't believe that they have wandered off or got lost. Anne Rudge, from

  • Facts about poor driving hit home for apprentices

    YOUNG Hereford-based apprentices have learned about road safety from an award winning group. More than 50 apprentices from Special Metals Wiggin saw a hardhitting presentation about the consequences of poor driving from a road safety group which

  • Search begins for best village

    THE search is on for Herefordshire's Village of the Year. The Calor Villages of the Year 2008 competition has just been launched with organisers encouraging entries from as many county villages as possible. Its aim is to promote community involvement

  • New High Sheriff chosen in historic ceremony

    HEREFORDSHIRE'S new High Sheriff was officially pricked' into action by the Queen during an ancient ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Last November, Lt Col Michael Robin Ogilvie Leigh, of Yarkhill, was nominated in a ceremony at London's High

  • Leisure Centre burgled

    HEREFORD Leisure Centre was broken into over the bank holiday weekend. Burglars got into its cafeteria late Sunday night (March 23) or in the early hours on Monday morning (March 24) and took money from a gaming machine. Around £200 of damage was also

  • Two car blaze in Leominster

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to two cars on fire on a Leominster housing estate. Firefighters were called to Ropewalk Avenue in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday March 26) after reports that a Mitsubishi Carisma and a Peugeot 106 were on fire.

  • High spots and low roads in challenge

    A HEREFORD student is taking the high and the low road in a gruelling fundraising challenge. James Davis, from Tupsley, is combining a charity cycle ride with the Three Peaks challenge. The Cardiff University student will leave John O'Groats for

  • Youngsters chuck bricks off Ross bridge

    PARENTS in Ross-on-Wye are being urged to talk to their children about the dangers of playing on bridges after two reported incidents of objects being thrown at vehicles on the A40. Motorists reported bricks or rocks being thrown from the Bridge between

  • Special day for school

    A COUNTY school has celebrated its 135th birthday with a Victorian Day. Pupils at Canon Pyon Primary School wore Victorian costume throughout the day to mirror what children would have been wearing when the school opened back in 1873. In the