landlords in Ledbury have welcomed the prompt action of police in dealing with a disturbance at the Seven Stars pub, where officers used CS spray. Now publicans are calling for the town's 'Behave or be Banned' scheme to be activated if anyone is convicted
Ledbury firefighters will be trained to deal with chemical, nuclear and biological incidents. Ledbury Station's new sub-officer Keith Wildig said: "Theoretical training has started for us and soon it will be practical, using the mass decontamination kits
A DELEGATION from the town has been briefed on the £20 million refit of HMS Ledbury, which could considerably extend the ship's active life. The seven-strong party, led by mayor Keith Francis, visited Portsmouth on Thursday, where the ship's crew is based
PLANNING consent has been granted for a mobile phone mast at Stifford's Bridge. The application, for a 21-metre mast near the A4103 was approved by Herefordshire Council's northern area planning committee. A spokesman from Daly International, Vodafone's
Ledbury weatherman Norman Selkirk estimates that no more than a quarter of an inch of snow fell on the town during a flurry on Wednesday evening. Mr Selkirk, of Albert Road, said he expected conditions to be back to wet, windy and mild by tomorrow (Saturday
The next meeting of the Ledbury Floral Art Club takes place on Friday, February 6, at 7.30pm, at the Community Centre in Lawnside Road. Andrew Lloyd will give a demonstration called "Spring Window". Both the demonstrator and the title of the demonstration
Police have travelled to Greece to take a statement from a drugs counsellor who saw Rachel Whitear on the day she died. Rachel's mother, Pauline Holcroft, who lives in Ledbury, said it was part of the ongoing investigation into the fate of her daughter
dates for the Kempley daffodil weekend have been set for Saturday and Sunday, March 20-21. Good walking shoes will be needed for outings to the wild daffodil sites, with routes between one and six miles on offer. Among the other attractions will be an
Age Concern in Ledbury is seeking people to help run a craft club. The club, which has eight regular members, meets on the first Thursday in the month at Turner Court, The Homend, from 2pm to 4pm. Further details on 01531 631280.
Guided walks to daffodil meadows will be among the highlights of the two-day spring fair at Dymock Parish Hall on Saturday and Sunday, March 13-14. The walks will take place from 2.30pm on both days. On the Sunday, table space in the hall will be taken
Ledbury in Bloom supporters will be working hard this winter, tidying up shrub borders and flowerbeds around town in preparation for the spring planting. On Saturday, the entrance to St Katherine's car park received an early spring clean, with four helpers
LEDBURY Swifts took a depleted squad of just 11 players to this U16s league game. WESTON UNDER PENYARD U16s 4, LEDBURY SWIFTS U16s 3 Goalie Tom Smith was unavailable and Matt Hodges took over in goal. The first half started in fairly low key fashion.
A PLAN to build 21 apartments on the site of Bromyard's former hospital has been approved by Herefordshire Council. The 12 one-bedroom and nine two-bedroom apartments will be linked to the south side of the existing three-storey building at Linton Court
Pupils from St Richard's School in Bromyard will represent the county in the next stage of a national mini-hockey tournament. The under-13s won the Herefordshire leg and go on to represent the county at the South West championships at Millfield, Somerset
MEMBERS of Bromyard Local History Society turned detective on Sunday (January 25) when expert house historian Barbara Stewart took them around Peppercorn, the home of Pauline and Graham Perkins. The event raised around £150 for the society. Mrs Stewart
BOTTOM-placed Ledbury Town Reserves were boosted by the inclusion of Nick Welch, Stuart Hall, Lee Clueit, Neil Gardiner and Phil Preedy against reigning West Midland Division One (South) champions Bewdley Town on Saturday. LEDBURY TOWN RESERVES 2, BEWDLEY
COLWALL resumed normal service following their surprise defeat by Wootton Bassett with a 5-2 win against Badgers in Gloucester on Saturday. BADGERS 2, COLWALL WHC 5 Colwall got off the a flying start with a goal from Gemma Richards, who struck a shot
COLWALL man Mike Forecast is running the London Marathon in April to raise funds for the NSPCC. Mr Forecast, aged 50, is well into a training programme prepared by former winner Mike Gratton. The operations manager at Malvern Hills Outdoor Centre is hoping
A MOUNTAINboard centre in Cradley will remain open after being granted temporary planning consent. Out To Grass, at Woodend Farm, was threatened with a closure notice in August when Herefordshire Council said it failed to comply with the terms of its
MANOR Park Pumas moved into second place in the Brewin Dolphin Securities sponsored Malvern Table Tennis League Division Two, with a hard fought win over fellow promotion-chasers YMCA Vulcans. Dave Hallam was man of the match with three wins out of three
LEDBURY DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB Another good turnout on January 21 when there was 16 tables. The leading scores were N/S 1 Brian Kingsley & Graham Jones 62.5, 2 Brian Snell & David Magee 59.5, 3 Geoffrey Herbert & Denis Reay 58.3, 4 June Homes
SATURDAY FOOTBALL WEST MIDLANDS LEAGUE Premier Division: Ledbury Town v Wolverhampton Casuals, Tipton Town v Bromyard Town. Division One South: Chaddesley Corbett v Ledbury Town Reserves (1.45), Reality Sports v Malvern Rangers (1.45). WFA SATURDAY JUNIOR
A girls' soccer team from Newent Community School is to represent Hereford United in a regional tournament at Bristol Rovers' ground. The team members have earned their honour by triumphing in the local rounds of the Predator Cup, which was organised
Concerns about the level of dog mess on Newent's Recreation Ground have been expressed by both Newent Town Wanderers Football Club and Newent Town Council. The football club has asked the council, which owns the site off Watery Lane, to consider banning
Newent town councillors will be looking at a possible site for the new children's play area by Lakeside tomorrow (Saturday, January 31). The "meadow" area, near the car park, is the favoured site at present. Money for the new play area, around £30,000
aROUnd 200 friends are expected to attend a fundraising charity auction and disco in memory of Bosbury father and "gentle giant" Stephen Jackson, who died in a car crash in July. The event is being organised by Mr Jackson's family, who live in Ledbury
Severn Trent is spending almost £8 million improving Ledbury's sewage plant to meet strict new Environment Agency standards. According to the company, purified water pumped into the nearby Leadon will be cleaner than the river itself by next January.
Ledbury artist Wendy Gibson was awarded a silver medal for her painting of hellebores, which was displayed at the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show in London last week. There were just 20 artists from around the UK exhibiting at the show, which
Police have launched a fresh appeal for witnesses as inquiries continue into the death of Emma Hole in an accident on the A417 near Parkway. Miss Hole, from Hartpury, was driving a blue Citroen Saxo in the Gloucester direction at around 5.40pm on Saturday
A FILM describing the history of Dymock from a personal perspective has raised £1,500 for the village hall. Melvin Pratt lived in Dymock as a child and returned to the village to make the film, appealing to local residents for old photographs to include
A new shop opened in the Homend Mews, Ledbury, on Saturday, January 24. The Anu store is specialising in crystals and items that include tarot cards, fossils, incense sticks and dream catchers. The owners are Debbie Booth and Deborah Irving. Bromyard
A grant of £3,000 has been made to help restore the bells of Coddington's parish church. The frame holding the bells must be replaced and the bells themselves retuned. Coddington Parochial Church Committee has been raising cash for two years and money
A husband tried to strangle his wife with a length of rope as their marriage crumbled, Worcester Crown Court heard. Alan Clarke became emotionally distressed when he learned of her divorce plan. After drinking alcohol, he returned to the Live and Let
BROMYARD Rugby Club donated £2,500 to charity at its second sportsman's dinner. The event was held to honour the efforts and achievements of Andrew Lamb, a past chairman of the club, who played a big part in the formation of Bromyard Sports Foundation
LEDBURY Town's West Midland Premier Division clash at Smethwick was the first test for new management duo of Ian Ford and Kevin Barry and their side gained the expected victory. SMETHWICK ST 1, LEDBURY TOWN 4 Fielding a much-changed side with two new
RAIL users will have an opportunity to raise concerns directly with those responsible for providing services at a public meeting organised by the Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter. The meeting will be held at Malvern Girls' College, next door to
PLANS for a housing development at Colwall have been put on hold for a second time to allow Herefordshire councillors to visit the site. Developers Miton Ltd have applied to erect ten three- bedroom homes with garages off Station Road. The application
LEDBURY RFC entertain Camp Hill at Ross Road tomorrow (Saturday) and have selected the following sides. 1st Team v Camp Hill, league, home. T Barnett, C Kitching, S Nash, S Christian, A Dixon, M Williams (capt ), J Handley, D Rollins, R Collins, H Blandford
LEDBURY U12s once again found themselves visiting the Gloucester suburbs for this hard fought encounter, the home side fielding the heaviest pack that Ledbury are likely to come up against. LONGLEVENS U12S v LEDBURY U12S It was the weight of this pack
Newent Community School is just one of 14 from around the UK to reach the finals of the Schools' Question Time Challenge, backed by veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby. The school, off Watery Lane, will now get a £500 grant from BT to stage a local Question
MORE than 60 protesters gathered at Newtown crossroads on Saturday to oppose plans for traffic lights at the busy junction. The protest had been planned to co-incide with a site visit by Yarkhill Parish Council but that was put back to a date still to
RAIL users will have an opportunity to raise concerns directly with those responsible for providing services at a public meeting organised by the Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter. The meeting will be held at Malvern Girls' College, next door to
Dancing group The Amazing Jiving Lindy Hoppers will perform at Ledbury's Market Theatre on Saturday, March 6, at 8pm. The group will also hold workshops at St Katherine's Hall on the same day, from 2.30pm. For further details, ring 01531 633760.
A regular events list from Herefordshire Council should include major Ledbury events or be scrapped, says Chris Clarke, supervisor of Ledbury Tourist Information Centre. Major attractions in the town, such as the carnival and the Ledbury Poetry Festival
Ledbury Young Farmers, and the not so young, will celebrate the group's 60th anniversary with a marquee dance on July 3. Details are still to be ann-ounced, but the venue is likely to be a farm at Storridge with live music, dancing and food. The current
Ledbury parishoners have sent £100 for Mothers' Union projects in the Tanzanian link parish of Mtwara. Rev John Lowe said: "It is likely to be used for a sewing machine and some fabrics, so that some of the members can make and sell school uniforms. "
THE new owners of the Live and Let Live pub in Whitbourne have praised the support they have from locals since their arrival. Martin Long and Jayne Stock took over the 16th Century pub 11 weeks ago, after the previous owners went back to Wales. Mr Long
A CHARITY performance of the Conquest Theatre pantomime Humpty Dumpty last Wednesday raised more than £230 for St Michael's Hospice. Sylvia Jenkins, who chairs the hospice's Bromyard district support group, said an anonymous donation of £25 was also received
LEDBURY made the short trip to Piddle Park to play an in-form Pershore side in this Midlands West Three (South) fixture. PERSHORE RFC 3pts, LEDBURY RFC 7pts Ledbury, missing key players Allen Dixon and the combative Russ Putland, chose to play with the
Colwall Primary School has been given an award for its environmentally-friendly projects. The school has been awarded silver eco status by Environmental Campaigns (ENCAMS), the charity behind the Keep Britain Tidy campaign. The school has already gained
A CRADLEY man has won a nationwide competition for agricultural insurance brokers. Geoff Barber, who works for Worcester-based Agricredit Insurance, was selected for Farmweb's Member of the Year Award from among 70 brokers in the UK. The awards highlight
THE next meeting of the Wyche & Colwall Horticultural Society will take place on Monday, February 2, at Colwall Village Hall. The speaker will be Timothy Walker whose subject will be Plant Hunting in Australia. Tomorrow evening (Saturday) at 7.30pm
HEREFORD United are confident that a second successive blank Saturday won't seriously affect their Nationwide Conference title push. Graham Turner's men must sit it out again tomorrow before travelling to Scarborough on Tuesday for their first match in
LEDBURY II 12pts, PERSHORE II 5pts LEDBURY Second XV played host to this not so 'friendly' game against Pershore. Pershore, who are in the Division One of the Merit Tables, had already beaten Ledbury earlier on in the season and were looking for the double
EXTRA space for social and educational events is to be created at a church in Newent. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, has approached Forest of Dean District Council for planning permission to alter and extend its Ross Road building, also adding kitchen
Newent Beekeepers have been extra busy because of the mild winter and welcome the recent cold snap as a chance for their hives to settle down. Society spokesman Christine Birkan said the mild weather meant that bees were leaving the hive and searching
The introduction of specially-bred micro-organisms into Newent Lake last summer to reduce algal bloom and prevent fish deaths has been hailed as a success. Mayor Fred Passant said: "Bio-dosing worked last year, there were no fish deaths and so we are
Newent Town Council is backing a planning application for listed building consent to convert the former Bennions garage and showroom, in Broad Street, into seven flats. It came before Newent Town Council's finance and general purposes committee for comment
