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  • Hereford Utd 1 Hednesford Town 1: Saturday, September 9, 2000

    HEREFORD United recovered from conceding their first goal of the season and came back to preserve their unbeaten Nationwide Conference record with a draw at Edgar Street on Saturday. Bulls skipper Ian Wright was the home hero when he glanced a header

  • New lease of life for mighty oaks

    HEREFORDSHIRE business manager Mark Sherwood is investing his mineral firm's cash in a bid to recreate a piece of medieval England. He backed the Forestry Commission project with £12,000 after hearing about some 500-year-old living relics near his office

  • GM Free Register boasts 500 signatures

    THE launch of The Register for a GM (genetically modified) Free Herefordshire during the Three Choirs Festival proved a great success, now having 500 signatories. During the next few months the campaign will be touring Herefordshire giving more people

  • Kick-start needed

    LANDOWNERS have called for the Welsh Development Agency to provide vital kick-start funding for smaller commercial ventures in the countryside. The Country Landowners' Association has urged the WDA to cast its financial support net for wider to include

  • FUEL CRISIS: Tempers rise at the pumps

    TEMPERS rose with the temperature when Monday's 'panic at the pumps' took hold across Herefordshire. The situation developed so suddenly that some service station employees were soon enduring abuse from angry motorists. With patience running out faster

  • FUL CRISIS: Police cordon essential stocks

    FUEL'S gold -- police protection of 'essential' petrol supplies is planned with Herefordshire running on empty. At the time of going to press, three 'secure' service stations -- serving the north, city and south -- were being designated as the source

  • FUEL CRISIS: Hospital outpatient services suffering

    EMERGENCY ambulances in Herefordshire will continue to work throughout the fuel crisis. But outpatient services run by Hereford and Worcester Ambulance Trust have been drastically curtailed. Only cancer patients, those needing dialysis and others with

  • FUEL CRISIS: Blockade of depots bites in Herefordshire

    A COUNTY service station has been inundated with requests for fuel from a 'panicky public' although it hasn't sold any for two years. Robin Thorne, of the Bush Bank Service Station, Canon Pyon, received more than 30 calls on Tuesday morning. "I wish I

  • 'For Sale' sign goes up over second former Army base

    A SECOND former Army base in Herefordshire is up for sale. Moreton Camp, covering 85 hectares, or 210 acres, went on the market this week and the Government's Defence Estates is hoping for a quick deal, writes LIZ WATKINS. No one is prepared to talk about

  • SAS soldier killed in Sierra Leone action

    AN SAS soldier has been killed in action just 10 days after attending the funeral of two colleagues at St Martins Church in Hereford. Trooper Brad Tinnion, aged 28, suffered fatal wounds when he was hit by machine gun fire as he helped lift six Army hostages

  • Hereford fixtures 2000/1

    Full Fixture Listing AUGUST 19 Southport H 22 Kettering A 26 Hayes A 28 Northwich H SEPTEMBER 2 Woking A 5 Telford H 9 Hednesford H 12 Nuneaton A 16 Doncaster A 19 Nationwide Trophy 1 23 Stevenage H 26 Leigh R.M.I. H 30 Dagenham & R. A OCTOBER 3 Kingstonian

  • Nuneaton Borough 1 Hereford Utd 2: Tuesday, September 14, 2000

    Hereford United moved up to second spot in the Nationwide Conference with a fine win at Manor Park. United put away their chances and then held firm against heavy pressure, particularly in the second half. The Bulls scored twice in five first half minutes

  • Authority's bid to root out GM crops in county

    HEREFORDSHIRE councillors are making a bid to root out genetically-modified crops in the county, writes Roy Lewis. The authority's environmental programme panel has produced a list of measures to put pressure on the Government to rethink its policy. Members