HEREFORDSHIRE Junior League line-up for 2000-01. Under-9 Division: Bartestree, Bartestree Colts, Dore Valley, Fownhope, Kington Town, Lads Club, Lads Club Colts, Ledbury Swifts, Leominster Minors, Hinton, Orleton, Tupsley Pegasus, Wellington, Weobley.
LEDBURY DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB The monthly teams competition on 5th July attracted only 10 teams i.e. the most difficult number to organise. The winners with 42imp were Lyne Jenkins, Betty Browne, Arthur Creager & Lizz Legg, 2, John & Mira Davies
LEDBURY Bowling Club is holding its annual invitation mens triples tournament on Sunday at Bank Crescent. Twenty-two teams have entered this year's event including sides from Panteg (Wales), Hereford, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Aston Sommerville, Eastnor
A PUBLIC meeting and exhibition are being staged over plans to seek further protection for the historic Chartist settlement at Snig's End, near Staunton. The plan to extend the existing conservation area is the brainchild of the Forest of Dean District
ON an overcast afternoon Ledbury visited Wormelow and picked up their third success in a row when Ledbury won the toss and captain Matty Ehrlich decided to bowl and this proved to be a wise decision. WORMELOW 2ND XI v LEDBURY 2ND XI Wormelow were in trouble
BOSBURY 2nds put in to bat by Brockhampton on a green damp wicket soon lost both openers and after seven overs were 11 for 2. BOSBURY 2ND XI v BROCKHAMPTON 3RD XI K Eyles (93) and P Ledbury (37) then progressed steadily with a stand of 82 for the third
JOHN Masefield High School has been threatened with legal action by a poet after it pulled out of a sexually explicit poetry reading. Birmingham-based Jim MacCool has threatened to sue head of English Martyn Moxley and the school governors for theft and
COLWALL'S run in the Wadworth 6X Village Knockout was ended by the narrowest of margins on Sunday, losing just one more wicket in a tied match against Derbyshire side Elvaston. COLWALL v ELVASTON Both sides scored 146 in their innings but the loss of
BROMYARD'S Janet McMorran will represent Great Britain in the Invacare World Team Cup, the Davis and Federation cups of wheelchair tennis. The event, now in its 16th year, will take place in Paris, France, from July 17-23. McMorran, is the British number
WHEN Norman Stanier's eco-friendly house at Putley featured on the television's Discovery television channel on Wednesday, he was suspended on a rope outside the medieval windows of Warwick Castle. Mr Stanier, who runs a specialist access firm, and has
CANON Frome electors are to write to Herefordshire Council, urging a county referendum on the growing of GM crops. Under Government farm-scale trails, GM crops are likely to be harvested this summer at two locations locally - Kempley and Preston Wynne
LEDBURY continued their fine form and not only managed to beat the weather last Saturday but more importantly beat Marches League division two leaders Burghill. LEDBURY 1ST XI v BURGHILL Once again Ledbury skipper David Taylor won the toss and chose to
LEDBURY RFC have received a boost that their New Zealand coach Mark Morrison has decided to stay on in the UK and also stay with the North Midlands One side. Morrison, formerly with Hereford RFC, joined Ledbury 12 months ago as a player/coach. The club
TICKETS have now gone on sale for the European Young Rider Champion-ships 2000 that are being held at Hartpury College, Gloucestershire from August 23-27. Over 200 Young Riders, aged between 18-21, have entered the Championships and will represent the
BROMYARD has its third beat manager, in the shape of PC Mark Herbert, who has returned to the town following a 15-month stint in Leominster. PC Herbert only took up his duties as beat manager last week. Aside from the Bromyard and Winslow areas, which
MILTON Keynes has its concrete cows and Bromyard could soon be equally famous for life-sized sheep in bronze and even a wild boar, all likely candidates for the town's proposed sculpture trail. In recent weeks, a comments box in the foyer of the Town
Questionnaires are being sent to groups in Ledbury asking their views on access to the Market House, where town council meetings are currently held. Under the Disability Discrimination Act, which comes into force in 2004/05, providers of public services
EASTNOR 3rds lost their fourth successive league match this time against Newent 3rds in this Hereford Times H&DCL Division Three game. EASTNOR 3RD XI v NEWENT 3RD XI Eastnor skipper Taylor lost the toss and was asked to bat. Eastnor were always struggling
Ledbury town centre is to get a £28,500 facelift, thanks a grant from regional development agency Advantage West Midlands. The £14,250 windfall will be matched pound for pound with funding from Herefordshire Council, the Town Council, Ledbury in Bloom
YET another defeat for Eastnor in their WCL Division Two game this time at the hands of Worcester Nomads in a low scoring match and by just one wicket, following their nine run defeat last week. EASTNOR v WORCESTER NOMADS Put into bat the villagers began
LEDBURY'S MP, Peter Temple-Morris has offered his support and help to any Quintiles workers facing harassment from animal rights activists. He said he had long been concerned about the demonstrations outside the laboratory, off the Bromyard Road, as well
A BRAY Avenue resident is up in arms about people attending Ledbury Poetry Festival events parking in her street and along Mabel's Furlong. Michelle Quinton said: "It was bumper to bumper, end to end. "Someone was actually directing people to park in
IN a remarkable game at Cirencester on Saturday Colwall took their third league win of the season mainly down to a superb Dave Sutton hat-trick. CIRENCESTER v COLWALL Batting firs on a very difficult wicket Colwall were subject to an invasion of sorts
THIS year's Ledbury Poetry Festival was always going to be record-breaker, not least because its £90,000 budget was the biggest to date. But with the final figure is still being tallied, organisers are confident that costs will be covered and records
THE Ombudsman is to investigate two complaints concerning the granting of planning permission last February for the new Ledbury Community Hospital. Both concern alleged "procedural irregularities". The complaints touch on whether the papers regarding
LEDBURY'S planned new community hospital could cost £200,000 a year more to run than was expected, according to "worst case scenario" figures put out by the Herefordshire Primary Care Group. The PCG, which in future will be known as the Primary Care Trust
ELECTRONICS giants in America and Holland are beating a path to the door of a former John Masefield High School pupil. Andy Vernall has designed a wristwatch that can access the Internet, sample music mini-discs and even beam-in images from cinemas. The
