New High Sheriff will 'give back to community'

THE NEW High Sheriff of Herefordshire has vowed to spend his year ‘giving back to the community.’

Bob Tabor, from Llanrothal, near Ross-on-Wye, was initiated in to the role at Buckingham Palace last Wednesday (March 13) where the Queen hand-pricked his name in to the Roll of Sheriffs using a silver bodkin - a tradition started by Queen Elizabeth I.

Mr Tabor, who is also a deputy lieutenant of Herefordshire, said he feels ‘enormously privileged’ to be chosen for the role.

Comments(9)

mizza21 says...
11:16am Mon 18 Mar 13

Err? Is this real?
What the hell does a High Sherriff do?

Does he have a horse? and chaps? and most importantly .. .a gun?

Not many preofessions where you get hand pricked by the queen though.

Themightyboosh says...
6:51pm Mon 18 Mar 13

well mizza the HIGH sherriff visits burghill a lot :D

"see the story a few above"

Biomech says...
9:22pm Mon 18 Mar 13

Can someone explain what this actually means? It seems the HT have accidentally misplaced half the article...

dippyhippy says...
10:49pm Mon 18 Mar 13

Bob from Ross,went to visit Liz in London. She promoted him. He's well happy.......or something like that!

Biomech says...
12:35am Tue 19 Mar 13

lol

Ubique5740 says...
4:27pm Wed 20 Mar 13

Does it hurt being hand pricked ?

dippyhippy says...
4:47pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Not sure - but it sounds like something you might be on the receiving end of at a "well man" appointment....!

Ubique5740 says...
5:00pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Yep, had my little **** a week ago - quite painless. What hurt was being grouped as a binge drinker - all details on the very interesting car fire story.

Ubique5740 says...
5:02pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Apologies to the Censor for including a word which is censored - it was a shorten version of pricked!

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