BLUE Orange Theatre Company present an exciting adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre as part of The Courtyard’s Page to Stage season.From an early age, Jane Eyre suffers physical and psychological abuse, firstly at the hands of her aunt and cousins
PAUL Keetch has been back on the stump in Hereford. Mr Keetch, who held the Hereford seat as a Liberal Democrat from 1997 to 2010, joined Lucy Hurds’ Lib Dem campaign in High Town at the weekend. Now a freelance political and historical adviser
FORMER SAS soldier Nigel Ely put his hands up to the parking ticket slapped on his UKIP “battlebus”. A Herefordshire Council parking officer had the former troop carrier in his sights when the UKIP parliamentary candidate for the Hereford and South
LABOUR’S Anna Coda told the Hereford Times earlier this month that car accidents are largely bad luck – five days later she was in one herself. The candidate standing for Hereford and South Herefordshire was travelling from Peterchurch when she
A WEOBLEY-based dance school enjoyed a number of wins at the Worcester Dance Festival. Intermediate and senior dancers from Aspire Dance Studio in Whitehill Business Park competed in solo, duet and trio classes and received a number of medals.
HEREFORDSHIRE Council is to waive its own contract rules to keep the county’s CCTV cameras rolling. The Hereford Times can confirm that the exemption has been signed off at assistant director level to secure a two year contract with BT worth £62,756
ONE of the most popular Hereford United players of recent years has lifted the lid on his time at Edgar Street. Ben Smith has released his autobiography entitled Journeyman, which hits the shops next week. In it the Meadow End favourite, who
EXPERIENCE Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, adapted for the stage by Nick Lane and Fissiparous Theatre Company, live at The Courtyard.Dr Henry Jekyll is a good man. Successful within his field, respected
A MAN who was given a police order due to his anti-social behaviour has "turned his life around", a court heard. Michael Croke of Etnam Street, Leominster appeared at Hereford Magistrates Court yesterday for breaching a criminal behaviour order
I WOULD like to express my sadness and disappointment after hearing that the South Marches Scouts were not staging the St George’s Day parade this year. I have always had great respect for the Scouting movement and the work they do preparing young
KNIGHTON Primary School has welcomed 13 new children to its nursery section of the school following the Easter break. The children will be taught by Sonia Williams helped by teaching assistants. They will learn to start recognising letter and numbers
Hustings meeting in KnightonTHE church hall in Knighton was full to capacity for the Hustings meeting organised by the Knighton and district churches together on Sunday evening. All the Brecon and Radnorshire parliamentary candidates were present to answer
STEFAN Mohamed's book 'Bitter Sixteen' sold out at the second launch. This took place in The Tower House Gallery, Knighton on Easter Sunday. The event attracted so many people the little venue was full. People included Stefan's teachers from his primary
MEMBERS of the Hereford Times team were given a warm welcome at Leintwardine by local school pupils. During an event organised by David Griffiths, who runs the village shop and garage, editor Clive Joyce and deputy editor Andrew Doyle met villagers
THE county’s tightest local election campaign of recent times will test candidates to the last – with those who have been around longest now having the most to lose. On “the stump” it is apparent that fresh faces and fresh ideas prove a compelling
A MAN who drove his friend's van while over the drink-drive limit was caught by police after his friend mistakenly reported the vehicle stolen. Paul Drew of Hall Place Farm, Stoke Lacy, Bromyard had been on a night out with a friend in Hereford
I REALISE that in the scheme of things, animals are low on the list of priorities for the general election, but I implore anyone reading this to ask candidates where they stand on the Ministry of Defence’s experiments on pigs in this country.
PIMMS and ponies race night - and no weather problems guaranteed! For lovers of horse racing, there's a local event coming up in June that is 'a must' for those who enjoy a flutter, like a decent meal and a couple of drinks, but like the benefits
Magnificent Max and MontyLEDBURY shoppers were surprised and delighted to see these magnificent Shire horses pulling the Wadworth Dray and 'parking' outside the Talbot Inn. As part of their tour to all the pubs and hotels that stock Wadworth products,
AN 11-year project to clear the River Wye and its tributaries of all litter will be completed at the end of this month. More than 1,000 volunteers have removed about 4,000 bags of litter and larger items from the river since 2004. The clean-up
A PLANNING application has been submitted to build 90 homes in Marden. Andrew Price is behind the request for outline permission to put the properties on a site adjacent to New House Farm and the village primary school. A community building
A CHARITY which provides transport to people in Leominster and Hereford has teamed up with a national car servicing and repair company to support its volunteer drivers. Community Wheels, operated by hvoss (Herefordshire Voluntary Organisations Support
HEREFORDSHIRE’S cricketers got their season off to the perfect start with a comprehensive opening day victory. The county side comfortably saw off the challenge of Berkshire by 93 runs in the first match of this season’s Unicorns KO Trophy.
A 42-YEAR-old man pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly after swearing at police. Hereford Magistrates Court heard that Michael Ellis of Springfield Avenue, Hereford was drinking with a group of eight males in Gaol Street on April 8.
HEREFORD Musical Theatre Company’s current production of Avenue Q – a musical unlike anything you’ll have seen before - is something of a departure for them – and it’s an inspired one. Avenue Q has been a sell-out wherever it’s played since it
THE King’s Speech – the play from which the Oscar-winning movie starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush was adapted – comes to Malvern Theatres on Monday.Starring Raymond Coulthard as King George VI and Jason Donovan as his Australian speech therapist
A MAN who had been out drinking in Hereford city centre was found slumped over the steering wheel in a car, a court heard.Ashton Smith, 34, from Dainty Street, Gloucester pleaded guilty to drink driving last week.Hereford Magistrates Court heard that
I WOULD like to respond to the letter from Kirstie Macfarlane (Tourists don’t want to see rubbish dump, Letters, March 6). There is no doubt that because there are disgusting people about, we have a problem. It is nonsense, and utterly misleading
