THE plight of Sinbad the cat who survived 17 days without food and water aboard a shipping container travelling from Egypt to Herefordshire touched many hearts last week. Within six hours of an appeal being launched to pay for his £2,000 quarantine
PLANS have been submitted to convert a former Hereford dental practice on Whitecross Road into four apartments. A detached house will also be built on the site next to Sollars Close should the application be approved.
OUTLINE planning permission is being sought to build 42 homes in Weston-under- Penyard. MG Property Consultants are looking at a site close to the village football pitch.
A SCOOTER club delivered a seasonal selection of Easter eggs to the children’s ward at Hereford County Hospital. Herefordshire Scooter Club and the Hereford 49ers scooter club were greeted at the hospital with a warm welcome. Many of the poorly
A TV aerial dangling dangerously over a Hereford street was re-attached by fire fighters this morning. The aerial had come loose from an address in Mill Street, St James, and was assessed as a risk should it fall. Fire fighters working from
A HEAD boy at one Hereford school is set to cross the pond to represent the UK at an event at Harvard University this summer.Jan Chelmicki, head boy at Aylestone Business and Enterprise College, will be the country's representative at a leadership ambassador
IT gave Ross Rotary president Tina Atkins great pleasure to host a celebratory dinner for Ross Rotarian Michael Green at the Chase Hotel in recognition of his 50 years in Rotary. Among the 55 attendees at the dinner were RIBI president elect Peter Davey
AT a recent meeting of Ross Rotary Club, Eileen Hammond, first vice-chairman of Inner Wheel District 10, gave an interesting, informative and amusing talk on her 40 years as a professional fundraiser for various charities, which have included Sight Savers
HEREFORDSHIRE Council is to put off purchasing its share of the Hartlebury joint incinerator site for another eight years. The cabinet level decision - confirmed last month - exercises a contract clause that means the council won’t have to make
THE Easter raffle at The Co-operative’s College Road, Hereford, store raised £300 for Toros Juniors FC recently.Pictured left to right are Toros Juniors FC manager, Gareth Cottrell with Tracey Hammond, Emma Tanner and, store manager, Nathan Heighway.
BROCKHAMPTON will be getting their bats out this weekend as they kick-off the new season with a cup encounter against Ombersley. The Graham Williamson trophy match will start at 12.30pm on Saturday, with the quarter-final scheduled for the following
A "devoted" pensioner shot dead his ill wife before turning the gun on himself, an inquest heard today. Police found the bodies of John Knott, 71, and his wife Elizabeth, 70, at their idyllic country house in Pow Green, Bosbury on August 11 last
HEREFORD Lads Club have won the Midwest Counties Female League with three games to spare.The city side have won all of their 17 games in the division thus far, scoring a mammoth 82 goals and only conceding seven.Their next two games are away, starting
GOALS from Sam Pearson and Ben Price saw Pegasus Juniors beat strugglers Shifnal Town 2-1 in West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division on Tuesday night.Pearson opened the scoring after three minutes when he lobbed the home goalkeeper before Price
AS an internationally renowned rock god, Robert Plant has performed to legions of fans at iconic venues including Madison Square Garden, the Chicago International Amphitheatre and London's Earls Court.But the Led Zeppelin frontman's latest public appearance
A CASTLE on Herefordshire's Welsh border which has been the home to numerous invaders during its near 1,000 year life is facing more unwelcome visitors.Those taking on a major restoration of 12th century Hay Castle say the notorious Deathwatch beetle
A COUNTY businessman has made a friend for life after recovering the £10,000 he accidentally left in a taxi.Car dealer Adrian Quinn said cabbie Mohammed Nisar saved his company when he held onto the large amount of cash left in his vehicle. Mr Quinn,
IT was good to see the issues of littering and fly-tipping raised in the Hereford Times letters pages recently. In Kington we have an active group that has met regularly over many years to pick up litter from roads and verges around the town.
