A BODENHAM resident was part of a team which won a gold medal for their display at the Chelsea Flower Show. Pat Crane was part of a team representing the Three Counties and South Wales area for the National Association of Flower Arranging Societies
HEREFORD FC will face Merthyr Town for the Herefordshire Senior Invitational Cup after winning the HFA County Challenge Cup. The match will take place at Edgar Street on Saturday, July 30 having hosted the Bulls in a pre-season friendly last year
POLICE in Hereford are appealing for anyone who saw criminal damage being carried out in a supermarket car park to come forward. The incident happened at Tesco on Bewell Street on Saturday May 14 at around 4.30pm. Two witnesses spoke and gave
EASTNOR Castle, near Ledbury, has recently received a rare tree donation from a local nursery.Wyevale Nurseries of Hereford has given Eastnor Castle a rare native tree called the Whitty Pear or Sorb Tree also known as the 'True Service Tree',
ROSS-on-Wye firefighters helped bring home two wins at a national competition. An extrication team and a trauma team from Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service joined rescue teams from across Ireland and Europe to compete in the Irish
A PERFORMANCE of Elgar's The Kingdom in the city where it was written has raised almost £7,000 for Christian Aid. Ledbury and Bromyard Choral Societies and Hereford Cathedral School Senior Chamber Choir came together to perform at a concert in
POLICE are appealing for information after a man allegedly offered a school pupil a lift in Glasbury. The incident happened at around 7.30am this morning and police say that the man was driving a red car. Anyone with information is asked to
THERE is a special 16-page Wembley souvenir pull-out in tomorrow's Hereford Times to celebrate Hereford FC playing at Wembley. The Bulls may have lsot 4-1, but it was still a day that none of the 20,000 plus Hereford fans will ever forget.
THE clocks will be turned back to another age when Eastnor Castle hosts its vintage weekend. The entertainment, spread across Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday, features an impressive line up of classic vehicles and steam engines while the Hereford
SHIREBULLS have pulled out of the GB Liners Marches League due to lack of players. The county side started this season ground sharing at Dales after previously playing at Wyeside in Hereford. But after struggling to raise a full side for matches
THE Hereford Times is pleased to say that a number of our Wembley pictures are for sale. Sunday's result between Hereford FC and Morpeth Town may not have been what many people would have wanted, but it was still a fantastic occasion - when 20,000
LINGEN Village Hall Committee have presented their donation of £500 to St Michaels Hospice at the May committee meeting. The money was raised at the Christmas dinner dance in December 2015 and match funded by HSBC. The cheque was presented to Ruth Dennison
MEMBERS of Women's Institutes across Herefordshire are busily knitting cuddly teddies following an appeal to the organisation to help provide them for the children's ward at Hereford County Hospital. So far over 100 have been delivered.Being given
TEN members and supporters of Knighton Ladies Hockey Club have raised about £1,500 by doing the Three Peaks Challenge. They left Knighton early in the morning driven by Martin Neary and Clive Brick to start their first climb to the top of Pen-y-Fan in
ON May 23, Severn Trent put on a special event at Bleddfa to name the tunnel boring machine and invited locals to watch it put in place. The tunnel boring machine arrived on site on Sunday night at the end of a 1,000 mile journey from the Herrenknecht
ASDA donated £1,800 to a project which kick-started its community garden. June Thurston, community champion at Asda Hereford, was so inspired by Saxon Hall’s plans that she helped the management team put together an application to The Asda Foundation
AT a open day in the East Radnor Day Centre in Presteigne there was a chance to see what goes on at the centre and find out about all the activities they do. Day centre manager Beverley Baynham welcomed three of the four county councillors that cover
SALLY Vaughan has become Mayor of Knighton for the first time. Cllr Chris Branford went through the highlights of her year before handing over the mayoral chain to Sally. She said "The highlights of my year have been the national draughts competition
THERE has been a police presence in Leominster this morning as officers carried out searches with regard to a concern for welfare. Police were called at around 9.20am to near Osborne Place, following concerns for the welfare of an elderly woman
LEDBURY Rotary club has provided service to the local community for sixty years celebrating its Diamond Anniversary this year. Rotary continues supporting activities and projects relating to all ages within the region with the emphasis on promoting fellowship
JO and Suzy Pardoe Bouchard from Knighton are embarking on a new venture to provide tourists to the Marches with a choice of special tours around the area. The wife and wife couple who were married in September 2014 at one of their favourite spots, Pen-y-Garreg
PETE Beadle says he would have picked the same team that started the FA Vase Final against Morpeth Town, even though Hereford lost 4-1. The Bulls were cruising in the first 20 minutes after taking an early lead and had chances to go two or three-nil
THE New Mayor of Presteigne and Norton James Tennant-Eyles accepted the chain of office on May 18 for the coming year from outgoing Mayor Colin Kirkby. Before handing over the chain of office Colin said "As always this has been another busy year
ARTHUR Davis celebrated his 90th birthday by hosting a champagne, canapés and cake garden party for family and friends recently at his home in Kimbolton. Arthur's continued active involvement with Rotary, Scouting, local history groups, printing and
PLANS to build 51 apartments near Hereford's Old Market shopping centre have been been submitted. The social housing provider, Herefordshire Housing Group, has drawn up the application to build the homes on a site off Blackfriars Street. It
HEREFORDSHIRE Council's customer service centre is set to move to its fourth home in less than a decade.Plans have been announced to merge the council's customer services team and the Job Centre Plus service in a new home at Blueschool House on
IF philosophy isn't your thing, but take a look at the HowTheLightGetsIn programme and you may very well find it's everyone's thing, the festival has curated a musical offering with a bit of everything for every taste and more than 370 music acts across
A 56-YEAR-old man was arrested in connection with immigration offences following a pre-planned operation in Hereford last week.Officers from West Mercia Police, along with immigration officials, attended a business on Union Street as part of Operation
MATT Bishop says it was a tough decision to leave Hereford FC but he felt he had to do it. The popular number two has struggled to combine his full-time work with the English FA with the Bulls at times this season and said it would not be fair
LEOMINSTER will step back in time again later this month to see how people lived, played and fought in the 15th century. The town's Medieval Pageant returns for a second year and will once again be free entry for all. It celebrates Leominster’s rich
THERE will be another attempt in Ross-on-Wye to break the world record for the most dogs in one place wearing a bandana. The first Guinness World Record attempt was held in the town last June and although 520 dogs gathered wearing bandanas, it
FOR most people running a marathon or half-marathon is a big challenge and one that takes lots of preparation. But one man from Hinton is aiming to run 67 miles within one day for charity. David O'Brien, 35, will set off from Richmond, in Greater
RESIDENTS who are fed up of parking problems in south Hereford are being urged to attend a public meeting next month to challenge those in charge of restriction schemes.Councillor Chris Chappell has called the meeting after receiving more complaints about
THE manager of the company responsible for improving Hereford city centre said a reduction in crime shows that the city is on the lookout for known offenders. The latest police figures show in the year to date there have been 52 shoplifting offences
REGARDING ideas for improving traffic throughout Hereford (Hereford Times, April, 28):- Firstly, a hopper bus connecting different parts of Hereford, including the train station, the bus stations, the two shopping centres, the hospital, and outlying car
