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  • Teacher is banned from classrooms for dishonesty over job

    A TEACHER who walked out on one Herefordshire school and then faked references from former colleagues there in a bid to secure another job has been banned from classrooms for her dishonesty. The ban which will last at least four years was imposed

  • Fury at the cost of calling hospital patient's bedside phone

    A FAMILY charged more than £20 to call the bedside phone of an ill relative in hospital want to make others aware of the costs. Angela Coulson needed to call Hereford County Hospital when her fiancé’s 27-year-old son was admitted after a complication

  • How can you be Independent in a group?

     I HAVE been involved in politics in Hereford and around the West Midlands for many years. I strongly believe that the most important thing in an election is that people use their vote. We are extremely lucky to have it and women, particularly,

  • We must use this bus lifeline - or lose it

    LAST year, several bus routes serving local communities were stopped but these buses are really important to many of us who are elderly, disabled or have young children. We were pleased when the council voted to provide some replacements, but not

  • Master of absurdist irony

    RICH Hall, star of critically acclaimed BBC 4 documentaries including Rich Hall’s Continental Drifters, Rich Hall’s The Dirty South and How The West Was Lost comes to The Courtyard later this month with his brand new live stand-up show Rich Hall 3:10

  • Cynical move over council smallholdings

    THE Cabinet has cynically pushed back the announcement of their decision to sell off Herefordshire Council's remaining smallholdings until after the May elections. This is typical of the behaviour we have come to expect from this group of only