A PUBLIC meeting is to be held in Bromyard next week to discuss the council's school merger plans.

The debate will start at 7.30pm next Thursday (January 17) at the town's Queen Elizabeth High School.

Queen Elizabeth assistant head Mike Goodman said today that the Bromyard school was one of the 37 secondary and primary schools included in the council's merger proposals.

The Hereford Times was the first to reveal the council's plan for far reaching changes to education in Herefordshire in yesterday's paper.