STRING quartet recitals are rare in Hereford and great ensembles like the Vellinger, who play on Saturday September 30 in The Shirehall at 7.30pm, even rarer. Their idyllic programme, comprising the last quartets of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, the three
KIND-HEARTED people in Hereford donated a total of £201 to a street collection in the city in aid of Herefordshire Nature Trust. Marketing manager Paul Weir said: "We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the collection."
A NEW city centre manager for Hereford should be in position by early next year. Hereford City Centre Forum heard at its latest meeting how the manager should be named within the next month to six weeks. Funding for the first 12 months is already in place
A BRILLIANT young musician and scholar is celebrating outstanding exam results at Hereford Cathedral School. Peter White, of Nantyderry, near Abergavenny, was awarded a music scholarship to the school aged 11. Now he is celebrating 10 A* and one A grade
A NEW industrial estate will 'enhance an important approach into Hereford city', county planners were told. Three new units will be erected on the old 'Camden Rover' site on Holmer Road after the central area committee gave the green light to the scheme
HEREFORD'S excellent unbeaten start to the Nationwide Conference season came to a close at one of their long-standing bogey grounds. The Bulls have won just once in 17 visits to Belle Vue in a run dating back 28 years, and have suffered 13 defeats there
HEREFORD Salvation Army octogenarian Owen Gulliford may have been playing musical instruments for 80 years but he is far from brassed off with his hobby. Owen, who celebrates his 90th birthday on September 26, has been playing the baritone since he moved
THE inaugural show and sale of pedigree Welsh Black Cattle went ahead at Abergavenny on Friday, despite the fuel crisis being at its peak. Fortunately, most of the exhibitors attended with only three failing to make it, said auctioneers J Straker, Chadwick
MEMBERS of Farmers' for Action warned this week that they would be returning to the protest lines if the Government didn't come up with a satisfactory answer to the high tax on fuel. Members from Herefordshire were closely involved in the national fuel
THE sudden death has occurred of a member of one of Herefordshire's best-known farming families. Mrs Kit Fraser, formerly of The Porch House, Westhide, died on Friday while staying with friends at Glebe Cottage, Westhide. She was 84. She was a doyenne
A COW, trapped in barbed wire, was left to die, magistrates at Leominster were told. The court heard that Hereford farmer Andrew Colin Bishop of Green Farm, Newton St Margarets, caused unnecessary suffering to the animal. He pleaded guilty and was fined
BACK-row forward Tom Campbell, aged 17, is following in family footsteps by taking the captaincy of Hereford Cathedral School's 1st XV rugby side this season. His elder brother Hugh, 19, a prop, led the side in 1998-99 and they are only the second pair
Hereford 15 pts Scunthorpe 29 FORMER Rugby League player Mickey Colt ran the show for Scunthorpe as Hereford crashed to their second consecutive defeat in Midlands 1. The more organised visitors' supremacy told in the second half after the hosts, in search
HEREFORD'S ABC Cinema will showing 'Me, Myself, and Irene' starring Jim Carrey for seven days from Friday. There are Saturday afternoon matinees of 'Thomas and the Magic Railroad'. The Coliseum Film Centre, Brecon, is continuing to show a remake of a
HEREFORD Open Door will be open no more from Friday September 29. The charity, which has been operating since 1996, is still negotiating new premises but it is unlikely that the twice-weekly cooked breakfast service will resume before the end of the year
FRIENDS of the late Sue Parry have raised a fantastic £7,578 for St Michael's Hospice in her memory. A group of Sue's closest friends, and her mother, Sandra Parry, made a huge effort to raise the money by holding events throughout the summer. They cycled
1. There is a bird's eye view from the roof for David Pick, facilities manager for WS Atkins, Steve Coldicott, services manager for Mercia Healthcare, Eric Price of McAlpine Haden, Ken Lee of Hereford Hospitals Trust, Simon Redsull of Sodexho and Bob
THE first part of Hereford's new district general hospital is expected to come into service in the next few weeks, writes ELIZABETH WATKINS. It is 17 months since the bulldozers moved on to the county hospital site to start work on providing Herefordshire's
THERE is a diverse selection of visual art at The Courtyard this month and it's not just confined to the gallery. Featuring contemporary painting, mosaics and sculpture, the exhibition is a showcase of local talent that fills the public spaces with eye-catching
LEOMINSTER has reacted with its own brand of 'people power' to news that Herefordshire Council plans to introduce parking charges in the town, writes RICHARD PRIME. Fishmonger Denise Pugh, addressing the September meeting of the Leominster Town Council
BROMYARD clinched the Division 2 title in the Worcestershire County League with a comfortable seven-wicket away win over mid-table Barnards Green. This completed a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for the Hereford-shire club who only avoided relegation
A MENTALLY ill man who mounted a horrific knife attack at the Herefordshire flats where he lived has been detained indefinitely under a secure hospital order. Richard Farr, urged on by voices in his head, slashed Paul Dabin with a knife as he returned
THE president of a Leominster company has pledged to spend a night sleeping rough on a London park bench. Ian Cullimore of Informal Software, will brave a night in Finsbury Park on September 22 to raise money for the charity, NCH Action for Children.
ALAN Curless OBE has been appointed the executive director of the new Herefordshire & Worcestershire Learning and Skills Council (LSC). LSCs will tackle local skills shortages by meeting the needs of students, trainees and employees in each region
THE number of homeless families in Herefordshire stands at its highest ever level. That is the startling message from Herefordshire Council's head of housing services Tony Jaques, who explained that the authority's hands are tied in solving the problem
HEREFORDSHIRE'S Local Education Authority (LEA) is under examination as a six-strong Ofsted inspection team tests its operations. The inspectors moved in on Monday to start interviewing senior managers and service heads. Next week the review goes 'into
A RESCUE package has been launched to save 160 jobs at a Herefordshire building conservation company regarded as one of the largest of its kind in the UK, writes JON LAND. Dimbylow Crump Ltd., based at Didley, near Wormbridge, called in the receivers
HGTA HEREFORDSHIRE JUNIOR LEAGUE UNDER-9 DIVISION Lads Club Colts 2 (Newbury, Preece) Hinton 2 (Tosh, Wildig). Ledbury Swifts 1 (Febery) Bartestree 9 (Watkins 2, Wooley, Harris, Leyshon-James 4, og). Bartestree Colts 0 Lads Club 2 (Kennedy 2). Orleton
LEDBURY Swifts' under-15 side have received the FA Fair Play Award for Herefordshire after being nominated by the county FA. Each county FA in England chooses one side from their affiliated youth teams based on the team's performance in 'fair play' over
HEREFORD Rowing Club's Rob Francis made a clean sweep of the men's junior-15 sculls at the annual Worcester Veteran and Junior Regatta. Thirteen-year-old Francis took victory in the singles and then teamed up with R Baker from St Neots to win the double
THE dream of national glory starts on Saturday for four county clubs who open their FA Carlsberg Vase campaigns with second qualifying round ties. Banks's Brewery West Midlands League Premier Division pair Kington Town and Westfields face a trip to league
THE weekend football programme was heavily disrupted by the fuel crisis, which led to the cancellation of many fixtures, including all of the county's top two soccer leagues. Saturday's fixtures in the Hereford Times Herefordshire League were all called
HEREFORDSHIRE rider Leslie Law helped Great Britain to their first Olympic Equestrian medal for 12 years as part of the silver-winning three-day event team. Law can add an Olympic silver medal to his long list of equestrian achievements thanks to a fine
THE Britten Singers, under their director, Pamela White, have begun rehearsals for their new season and, as usual, will be adding another range of music to their already large repertoire. Two concerts are already planned in the area. The first one will
THE 'Helta Skelta' tree is the latest creation in Hereford's innovative 'carver' scheme. David Jones' abstract sculpture near the play area on the King George V Playing Field is the 14th dead or dying tree to be given a second life as public art. The
SUN VALLEY is praising MP Paul Keetch for helping them through the oil crisis, writes RICHARD WILSON. Millions of birds faced the chop last Wednesday because the poultry giant was unable to secure enough feed. But an intervention to MAFF by Mr Keetch
THE latest phase in the refurbishment of Hereford's shopping centre began last Sunday when engineers moved in to remove the trees in Eign Gate. The trees, most of which were planted in 1970, were said to be 'unsuitable' for the paved pedestrian area due
A MAJOR new shopping centre has been proposed for Hereford. Consultants are to study sites for an 'equivalent Maylord Orchards' off either Bewell or Berrington Streets. The idea is included in a new blueprint that also outlines options to develop Merton
A MISCANTHUS open day at Orleton, near Ludlow, last week was attended by 75 arable farmers who, despite perfect harvesting conditions and acute fuel shortages, were still keen to view the new crop. The farmers saw three hectares of MAFF-sponsored trials
A DIRECTOR of a Hereford firm has overcome deafness and a serious accident to record victory in the National Veterans' 12-hour Championship in Cambridgeshire. Terry Coging, a 61-year-old sales director at PMS Systems, Rotherwas, clocked up 262.823 miles
A HEREFORD soldier has paddled his way to two medals at the Inter-Service Canoe Championships in Nottingham. Brendan Reese, 23, a former Weobley High School pupil serving as a corporal with the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, took gold in the men's
FORMER Hereford player Nicola Goodwin has been honoured by the Rugby Football Union for Women. Nicola, aged 26, was presented with the Unsung Hero Award by RFUW president Liz Jennings at the annual dinner for her commitment to women's rugby both on and
AFTER a stylish start to their new season, with a 29-10 win at Haverford-west, Hereford Cathedral School were brought back to earth with a 58-3 home reverse against Gloucester school St Peter's. St Peter's capitalised on every Cathedral mistake and, despite
Luctonians 19 pts Sutton Coldfield 7 LUCTONIANS notched their first victory of the campaign in Midlands 2 West in front of a large crowd at Mortimer Park. It took the North Herefordshire side 22 minutes to open the scoring when Will Crawforth, playing
NOW everyone can enjoy the Mappa Mundi exhibition. A new version specially designed for the blind and partially sighted opens tonight at Hereford Cathedral. The £18,000 project has developed a 'tactile' display which uses Braille as well as 'textural
A MOTORIST was taken to hospital in Hereford following a head-on collision between a car and an articulated lorry at Ryeford near Ross-on-Wye. The driver, believed to be a 41-year-old man, suffered injuries to his ankle during the accident which occurred
HEREFORD'S new £3 million library should be based in Broad Street, the county council cabinet is expected to hear next week, writes BILL TANNER. The Hereford Times can confirm that a conversion of Kemble House, a site adjacent to the present library,
ARTS Alive, the rural touring scheme for Herefordshire and Shropshire is launching its exciting season of live events. Arts Alive works in partnership with local people to make professional events available to all communities. Sian Allen for Arts Alive
OPENING shortly, from September 25-30, is a new exhibition by Sue Locke at the Mayor's Parlour Gallery, Church Street, Hereford. All the paintings are for sale and the exhibition will be open daily from 10am-4pm. This is her first one-man show in Hereford
RALPH Barnett lifted the Captain's Cup at Leominster with the day's best nett score of 61. Over 150 players turned out on a day which saw the sixth hole in competitive operation for the first time. There was close competition in all three divisions, with
JOBS may be lost in Kington if a controversial waste site gets planning permission, according to local residents. Hereford planners have received a 134-signature petition and numerous letters slamming the development planned for the Hatton Gardens Industrial
A HUSBAND and wife have died in a two-car smash at Woofferton near Ludlow. The 73-year-old man and 71-year-old woman from Monmouth, whose names have not been released, were travelling east on the B4362 when their Vauxhall Astra and a Mitsubishi Shogun
THE new Leominster rural taxibus is to be introduced on October 2. The service, which will be operated by the Little Bus Company (Leominster) Ltd, has been funded by a successful Rural Bus Challenge bid. Under the scheme, journeys will be operated during
ONE happy couple were relieved to beat the blockades and get to the church on time. Mike and Rachel Carnell from Hay-on-Wye (pictured centre) arrived at the romantic setting of Gretna Green just before the crisis began. They tied the knot on Saturday
A PICNIC site enjoying a perfect viewpoint from the top of Kinsley Wood has been given the go-ahead. A site meeting was held between the Knighton Town Forum and Forestry Commission. The two groups are now to get plans underway for the area to be prepared
BROMYARD'S long-serving vicar was showered with gifts when he gave his final service after 28 years. Rev. Walter Gould and his wife Hazel are heading for retirement after a lifetime of dedication to the north Herefordshire community. And people came out
BEEKEEPERS, rowers and closet Vikings are a few of the diverse Herefordshire groups to benefit from the latest round of National Lottery grants. Twenty-eight groups from across the county will share more than £100,000 from the Millennium Festival Awards
MEMBERS of Hereford's 22 Special Air Service never admit to being heroes. These men with a special kind of courage say they are just well trained soldiers ready to do a job where needed anywhere in the world. One of them, Trooper Bradley Tinnion was doing
ONE of the people missing from the funeral of Trooper Brad Tinnion was the grieving mother of one of his SAS colleagues who died just weeks earlier. Mary Powell of Cardiff, who had buried her son, Trooper Adrian Powell at St Martin's Churchyard on September
ALL Herefordshire's taxi drivers will be regulated under one harmonised licensing system from October 9. Taxis took to the streets of the city this week to complain about the move, which Herefordshire Council claim will mean a 'better deal for our residents
ONE Hereford Times reader was prompted into prose by the extraordinary events of last week. Tricia Sankey composed a long poem to articulate her own take on the crisis. This extract gives a flavour: Then Gordon Brown and farmer power combined to bring
SLOWLY but surely the petrol has started to flow again in Herefordshire - but not before a malicious 'rumour' brought panic to the streets once more, writes RICHARD WILSON. Crippled by five days without supplies, the county's pumps began working overtime
A GENEROUS donation by a Premiership footballer has sparked a huge auction of sporting memorabilia. Pembridge school decided to contact their namesake - Everton's Mark Pembridge - to see if he would offer a shirt to raise money for school funds. The ginger-haired
IAN Johnson struck a hat-trick as Leominster men's 2nd cruised to a convincing 6-1 win in a friendly against Tenbury. Adrian Preece notched the first on 10 minutes, before Mark Stevenson doubled the lead and Johnson added the third. Tenbury pulled a goal
Theatre September Until 23 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Courtyard Theatre. Until 23 Mr Peters' Connections, Malvern Theatre. Until23 Bouncers, Courtyard Theatre. 25-30 Blood Brothers (musical), Malvern Theatre. 27 Peter Pan, Courtyard
Dudley Town 1 Bromyard Town 1 WAYNE Hoskins rescued a point for Bromyard with a first-half equaliser after the home side took a deserved early lead Banks's Brewery West Midlands League Premier Division. Dudley started strongly and hit the bar twice in
Pegasus Juniors 0 Swindon Supermarine 3 AN under-strength Peg-asus fell to a disappointing defeat to the leaders in the Premier Division of the Cherry Red Records Hellenic League. Phil Beavan had a lobbed shot cleared off the line for the home side before
Herefordshire League 2 Newport & District League 0 THE Hereford Times Herefordshire League completed the double over the Monmouthshire BS Newport & District League in a match arranged as part of the two leagues' centenary celebrations. Following
Norfolk FA 1 Herefordshire FA 3 HEREFORDSHIRE booked a place in the second round of the FA County Youth Cup with a fine win over last season's beaten semi-finals Norfolk at Dereham Town FC. Andy Sherlock had a third-minute effort well saved by the home
Lye 2 Kington Town 4 KINGTON blitzed Lye with four first-half goals, including a brace from Paul Burton, in the Premier Division of the Banks's Brewery West Midlands League. Burton completed a slick end-to-end passing movement from 10 yards for the opener
HEREFORD United will be aiming to bounce back from their first Nationwide Conference defeat of the season with two home matches in four days - against Stevenage Borough and Leigh RMI. Doncaster Rovers inflicted the first defeat in nine Conference games
