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  • Hereford nightclub under fire

    A HEREFORD nightclub owner fears for the future after claiming he is being “victimised.” West Mercia Police has applied for a licence review of Mamma Jammas after officers said they were repeatedly called to the venue. Officers say a number

  • Follow the Tolkien Trail at Mordiford?

    TOLKIEN loved the English landscape and his writing was greatly influenced by it. He perceived a mythological emptiness caused by successive waves of cultural invasion. So he created mythologies which our landscape lacked. As editor of Mordiford

  • Review: Pirates of Penzance at The Courtyard

    THEY say the show must go on and it certainly did for the cast of Pirates of Penzance at The Courtyard. An injury to her hand – resulting in a makeshift sling – did not stop Laura Durman reaching those high notes as the beautiful Major General's

  • Singers gather for festival new wave

    In the second article in our countdown to this year’s Three Choirs Festival in Hereford from July 25-August 1, Clare Stevens highlights events that involve the whole community. EVERY three years since 2003 adult singing groups and children

  • Harsh action on young footballers

     I REFER to the article regarding Weobley’s under-13 football team of which my son is a member (Team fined and has points rem- oved for missing game, Her- eford Times, February 19). I agree with Weobley’s manager, Nick Locke, that to lose the only

  • New actors invited to open meeting

    THERE will be an open meeting on Sunday, March 8 at 7.30pm of a new amateur dramatic group, the Rural Theatre Players, in Bosbury Parish Hall Meeting Room.The meeting will cover outline proposals for the group and include a reading from the first act

  • Local authors on shortlist for prestigious award

    TWO local authors are among the 36 shortlisted contenders for the Romantic Novel Awards 2015 - Barbara Erskine, who is based near Hay-on-Wye and Lucy Dillon, a previous winner of the prestigious Romantic Novel of the Year, from Ledbury.Barbara Taylor

  • Cat rescue centres remind owners they are there to help

    BOSSES at a cat rescue centre want to remind owners they are there to help after two felines were abandoned in freezing temperatures. The Hereford Cats Protection Adoption Centre in Allensmore has been open for more than 11 years and sees around 400 to

  • Local author tells the story of life

    LOCAL author Catherine Barr launches The Story of Life: A first book on evolution next week. The publication of the book, co-authored by Steve Williams coincides with the introduction of evolution to primary school syllabuses next year."It came about

  • Living in danger here in Leominster

    I READ an article entitled Call to cut traffic speeds on 'danger' road, and I thought Leominster councillors were finally listening to the residents of Westfield Walk. Unfortunately it was about Leominster's Hereford Road/South Street. In Westfield