POLICE have launched an appeal after vandals pushed a car onto its side in Leominster yesterday. Pete Butcher, police press officer, said the owner of a red Fiat Panda parked his car in West Street between 5.50pm and 6pm. When he returned
POLICE have confirmed that a missing 14-year-old girl in Hereford has been found. Leah Hughes was last seen by her foster carer at around 4.30pm yesterday near Asda and was reported as missing after she failed to return home. Police
POLICE are urging bank customers to be on their guard in Hereford after they found another card cloning device in the city. It was placed on the HSBC dispenser at Morrison’s supermarket and was seized by police at 2.30pm on Monday. Three such devices
HEARD the one about the landlord who walked out of a bar and handed his keys to the customers? Bromyard residents can hear this story and other amusing tales during a night of nostalgia at the Falcon Hotel on Friday (Jan 23). Previous owners, customers
A GOLDEN Valley charity put a rural slant on the credit crunch at a national level this week when it featured on a prime time radio programme. Dore Community Transport, which helps residents unable to use public transport, led the way in a programme
IN November 2005 we decided that doing nothing about the excessive journeys to Cheltenham for cancer treatment was not an option - it was felt that something just had to be done. Thus was born what we consider to have been quite a successful local campaign
A HEREFORDSHIRE man is flying to the Caribbean to expand a lifesaving project he helped set up. The Homend may be world’s apart from Tobago, but Ledbury Rotary Club has saved hundreds of lives through its Caribbean Diabetic Footcare Project. Now the
HEREFORD businessman John Doughty has died at St Michael’s Hospice at the age of 67. He had worked in textiles all his life and his businesses, involving haberdashery, fabrics and crafts and, more recently, quilting were known country wide. Mr Doughty
THE history of Hereford Sixth Form College is covered in a new book which looks at its early development. In The Founding of Hereford Sixth Form College: an Episode in Change Management 1964-73, Geoffrey Barnes traces its growth as an institution. “
LEOMINSTER’S police chief has rounded on critics who claim trouble in the town is so bad that some parts are now no-go areas. Stung by the attacks, having led a highly successful crackdown on anti-social behaviour two years ago, Inspector Pete Wilson
DETECTIVES in Hereford are investigating a suspicious fire at the Newlands flats complex in Old School Lane. Shortly after midnight police became aware that the fire service were attending a fire under a stairwell leading to the first floor of the flats
A HEREFORDSHIRE volunteer group was disappointed to hear about the closure of the Left Bank as it was to be the venue for their latest get together. But members of the Voluntary Sector Assembly (VSA) were delighted when the Kindle Centre stepped in and
A TEENAGER was spotted carrying a medieval broadsword near Hereford Cathedral in the early hours. The blunt weapon, still in its scabbard, was seen in the possession of 18-year-old Martyn Smith by a police patrol. Jo Barker, prosecuting at Worcester
THE ambulance service has scotched complaints that ambulances from Hereford and Worcester are being switched to help out with calls in Birmingham and the Black Country. In fact, West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) claims the opposite is true with
A GARAGE worker from Ross-on-Wye who was caught on CCTV stealing food from her employer was spared jail this week. Vicki Taylor, of Three Crosses Road, was instead handed a 12-month community order at Hereford Crown Court last Monday (January 12). She
A FILM company is calling on Bromyard residents to play their part in a mini feature film. The Rural Media Company is appealing for extras to join the cast of Bromyard: The Movie. The 40-minute production follows a young girl, picked
A MAN from Herefordshire has died and two other people have been injured in a car crash on a busy main road. The fatal collision between a car and a van happened on the bends of the A44 near Broadwas at 6.20pm yesterday. Ambulance crews and a BASICS
STAFF at butchers Wallers of Ledbury are celebrating after their sausages won a double whammy in a competition this week. The bangers were judged the best in both categories of the county heat of this year's West Midlands Tastiest Sausage competition
RESIDENTS of Bishops Frome have formed an action group to fight for something to be done about flooding. Homes and businesses in the area have had to endure repeated flooding for years on end, when heavy rain causes the River Frome and its tributaries
THE return of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat to Malvern Theatres this week should prove to be the perfect antidote to the current doom and gloom. For long after the colours had faded into darkness, the audience were left lifted
WORK on a long-awaited village hall near Hay-on-Wye has begun thanks to the generosity of residents who donated more than £30,000 to the cause. Contractors are on target to complete a new facility at Cusop by July this year after committee members told
A YOUNG family will bid farewell to Herefordshire and the Welsh borders next month when they embark on the trip of a lifetime to undertake charity work in Africa. Julie Sorenson, who works for Hereford arts charity the Music Pool, and her husband Tom
A HEREFORD basketball club is laying the foundations for the sport in the city. Hereford Mavericks Basketball Club finished the first part of their new season in fourth place in Division 1 of the Gloucestershire Basketball Association Men’s League.
