Herefordshire gets ready to welcome the Queen (From Hereford Times)
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Herefordshire gets ready to welcome the Queen
9:51am Tuesday 10th July 2012 in News
Hereford gets ready to welcome the Queen
Excitement is building ahead of the Queen's visit to Hereford tomorrow.
Up to 25,000 people are expected to join in with the July 11 Diamond Day celebrations with events on the King George V playing fields from 8.30am to 4.30pm, including a procession and a 1,200-strong royal serenade.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are due to arrive at Hereford railway station at 10am, head to Cathedral Close for 10.15am and then onto the King George V playing fields.
The Royal party will leave Hereford at 11.15am.
Due to the inclement weather, parking arrangements are altered slightly - there will be no disabled parking on the playing field itself. All disabled parking will be in Wye Street Car Park, on a first come first served basis.
One of the free park and stride car parks at the Rowing Club is unusable. Stewards will be on hand to redirect drivers, but Asda is still allowing its car park to be used as a drop-off zone for the day.
If the playing fields should flood, the show will be moved to Hereford Racecourse.
To mark the day, Herefordshire Council has put together a commemorative booklet as a souvenir, which is on sale in city shops for £2 each.
You can follow the morning's events on Twitter at @HTnewsroom, on Facebook and here on herefordtimes.com.
If you're holding a royal party of your own or hoping to meet the Queen in Hereford, send your pictures and stories to news@herefordtimes.com.
Comments(21)
RogerLFC
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10:50am Tue 10 Jul 12
Belmont Voice
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10:59am Tue 10 Jul 12
silentbull wrote:I could not agree more! I thought they were here for several hours...
'Queen and the duke arrive at Hereford station at 10am'
'the royal party leave Hereford at 11.15am '
The local council DELAYED the building of the new shopping complex on the old cattle market for a visit that's ONLY GOING TO LAST ONE HOUR & 15 MINUTES??
how much this this cost ??
Bet its at least half of what the improvements would have cost !!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
So much effort going into cleaning up High Town, why don't the council put that effort in for Herefordians on a regular basis! Grrr
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William Rudd
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1:22pm Tue 10 Jul 12
s.cowell
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1:41pm Tue 10 Jul 12
The QUEEN is coming to Hereford!! Who cares if it's for an hour and a half or for 2 days!! She is gracing our city with her presence! So have some respect haters, she deserves more and I for one can not wait to see her and wave her into town tomorrow with my family and our union jack paraphernalia!
God Save Our Queen!!
s.cowell
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1:41pm Tue 10 Jul 12
The QUEEN is coming to Hereford!! Who cares if it's for an hour and a half or for 2 days!! She is gracing our city with her presence! So have some respect haters, she deserves more and I for one can not wait to see her and wave her into town tomorrow with my family and our union jack paraphernalia!
God Save Our Queen!!
LouisWalsh
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2:02pm Tue 10 Jul 12
Morriswoman
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3:38pm Tue 10 Jul 12
William Rudd
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5:00pm Tue 10 Jul 12
s.cowell
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5:22pm Tue 10 Jul 12
Stop all of this moaning and start celebrating!
silentbull
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7:51pm Tue 10 Jul 12
s.cowell wrote:Celebrate what exactly??
So let's use that hour to our advantage and show her what this county is made of!!
Stop all of this moaning and start celebrating!
celebrate that our taxes are paying for people to live a lavish lifestyle?
celebrate how bad our city is in??
celebrate that ive got to be stuck in traffic tomorrow just because a privilege couple is visiting our 'run down' city
or celebrate that I am 'like millions of others' work day in day out struggling to pay bills every month.
but then again Im lucky, at least i can keep warm at night .....millions CAN'T!!!!
s.cowell
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7:55pm Tue 10 Jul 12
silentbull
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8:23pm Tue 10 Jul 12
s.cowell wrote:Maybe Im the only one that's concerned about how 'OUR TAXES' is BEING WASTED
Get a job on the council if your that concerned silentbull and stop moaning about it on here. Time and a place!
no wonder this country is going down the plug hole
redyvonne
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3:55pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Mrslawrence66
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4:29pm Wed 11 Jul 12
And for the moaners who constantly moan about paying taxes , move to a country where you don't have to!
silentbull
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4:46pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Mrslawrence66 wrote:its NOT paying taxes that we are moaning about its HOW ITS SPENT!!!
Lovely to see the Queen in Hereford, as for the moaners .....shut up and put up its for one day, I did not see any traffic on the roads as a result and if anything it was quieter as they were all there to see the Queen.
And for the moaners who constantly moan about paying taxes , move to a country where you don't have to!
Pat Groves
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5:46pm Wed 11 Jul 12
would someone please give him a geography lesson !
Lukio
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6:46pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Andrew Warmington
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4:44pm Thu 12 Jul 12
silentbull
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10:13am Fri 13 Jul 12
i just hate the government saying that everybody needs to watch there spending, the country is in dept there's no money for hospitals, Policing, firefighters, armed forces and councils 'YET'..... they find money to waste on Olympics, Banks and on a family that's got Loads of LAND, LAVISH HOUSES, Horses, get driven around go on expensive holidays and hold very big parties.
TAXES SHOULD BE SPENT WISELY ON PEOPLE THAT PAY IT NOT WASTED!!!
jckennedy05
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1:41pm Sat 14 Jul 12
Basically if you guys live in one of the best Countries in the world it is indeed thank you to the hard work of the royal family over the past thousands years.
You don't just become a rich country overnight.
And yes we do have to pay our taxes, so have people in any other country around the world!
If you guys don't like to live in Britain where you think you pay so much tax and have nothing in return, try to live under a dictatorship in some African or Arabic countries! You still have to pay your taxes and you won't have 1% of what you have here in this country. And to be very honest the minimal percentage of the taxpayer money spent annually on the royal family is paid back over almost 10 times by their service and also business and tourism brought to this country thanks to our monarch and the royals; on the contrary most of the taxpayers money is indeed spent on those that doesn't want to WORK and live on benifts for years; as per say the herefordshire county is one of the counties in this country with less tax contributions from their people, as most of the population it is indeed quite cozy sat on their backsides and living on benefits and then complaining about how the council keeps the city!! Well, how can the council provide great services, if they have a low budget due people in this county not wanting to work? And then, when we really look into it, those complaining most the times are the ones that doesn't work and take whatever they can on benefits! So let's get the grip and take your facts right my dear fellows.
Now going back to the Queen's visit to Hereford, it hasn't been paid by us taxpayers but indeed by private ( personal, business ) donations, so my dear fellows do get your facts right before starting complaining about what you don't really know, don't just repeat what you hear from others but get your facts right before burping out so much nonsense!
Let's respect the amazing work of our royal family as they bring so much for our country! If you have any doubts about it try to find out a bit more instead of just repeating what you hear from others! Let's stop this criticism and nonsence regarding our royals, let's be a happy nation!!
GOD SAVE OUR BELOVED QUEEN!
silentbull says...
10:21am Tue 10 Jul 12
'the royal party leave Hereford at 11.15am '
The local council DELAYED the building of the new shopping complex on the old cattle market for a visit that's ONLY GOING TO LAST ONE HOUR & 15 MINUTES??
how much this this cost ??
Bet its at least half of what the improvements would have cost !!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!