HUGH Cornwell, original guitarist, singer and principal songwriter with The Stranglers, is one of the UK's finest songwriting talents and most accomplished live performers. Renowned for his music -No More Heroes, Golden Brown, Always the Sun and Duchess
A GROUP of Hereford Rotarians joined others from around the country to celebrate the club's 110th birthday and raise the flag for its 'End Polio Now’ campaign. Hereford Rotary Cub members, Rob Soutar, Rachel Carr, John Taylor and Julia Taylor, joined
BACK room staff worked on wards to help Hereford County Hospital cope with a norovirus outbreak and “intense” pressure on A&E. Over recent weeks, Wye Valley NHS Trust has lost around half of its beds and a number of its staff to norovirus.
HOPE Support Services took over the windows of Hereford’s White Stuff for their latest fundraiser. Sisters Elanah and Olivia Gilmour joined Youth Development Officer SammyJay Powell to put on a mime display for passersby. Spectators could pick
A LEOMINSTER girl raised more than £300 for the charity that supported her dad after having her long locks cut off .Nikita Howells, 11, braved the hairdresser's chair to help Midlands Air Ambulance after the charity helped her dad, Keith Howells, when
THREE teenagers set up an ambush to steal drugs from a dealer in a Hereford alleyway, a court heard. The two boys and a girl, then aged 15, set up a meeting to lure the teenage dealer to a path off Church Road in Tupsley. Nicholas Smith, prosecuting
HEREFORDSHIRE is sitting on a “syphilis time bomb”, a council committee heard. The warning followed an update on the county’s health by Arif Mahmood, a Herefordshire Council consultant on public health, who said his colleagues are only seeing the
HEREFORDSHIRE Council is ready to pay “London rates” to recruit child safeguarding specialists to its social services. The offer, now signed off at cabinet level, is aimed at ending the long-running reliance child safeguarding has on interim appointments
TWO pupils from a county high school paid their respects to a Wigmore soldier who died in the First World War during a recent battlefields trip. Wigmore High School pupils, James Price and Joe Harper, were joined by history teacher, Lucy Hill,
A COUNTY charity which supports disabled and older people has announced its new chief executive. Euan McPherson, currently head of operations, will take the helm of Services for Independent Living (SIL). Mr McPherson is well known in Herefordshire
HEREFORDSHIRE MEP James Carver is calling for a “spirited defence” of the cider industry against European Union (EU) moves to amend the UK’s excise duty scheme. James Carver fears small-scale producers of cider and perry especially could be hit
HEREFORD County Hospital has again declared an "internal incident" as it struggles to cope with patient numbers. It is the second time since January that Wye Valley NHS Trust has had to make the internal incident call. The latest surge in patient
AN energetic Presteigne author and painter whose name will be remembered for her dedicated efforts to tell the stories of two eminent figures associated with the Welsh border has died aged 94. Margaret Newman Turner was a much travelled art critic
POLICE are appealing for help following a possible sighting of a missing woman from Weobley. Monica Armstrong, 63, has not been since Tuesday March 3 in Hereford. Her car, a black VW Polo, was found by police at Weir Gardens in Swainshill, on the
AFTER more than three decades of playing squash, a county player has achieved his lifelong ambition to represent his country.Tom Burton, first team captain at Hereford Whitecross Club, has been selected for the England over-55s masters team to play in
HEREFORD in Bloom has come up with a novel idea to help raise the funds to pay for planting the flower beds and planters around the city centre. When Herefordshire Council withdrew funding for flower displays last year, Bloom volunteers raised
HEREFORDSHIRE Wildlife Trust (HWT) is fighting plans for 135 new houses overlooking Hereford’s Lugg Meadows. The application will be determined by a public inquiry next month after an appeal by Bovis Homes against Herefordshire Council’s refusal
