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  • Herefordshire company backs lessons in road safety

    CHILDREN at Kingsland Pre-School learned about road safety thanks to the Kingspan Insulation Community Trust. Kingspan Insulation set up the trust to provide funding for community projects in Shobdon, Pembridge and Kingsland and the decision

  • Coun Blackshaw wants to talk up what the city offers

    I WROTE to the Hereford Times a little while ago to let readers know that Peacocks was planning to open a new store in the former Woolworths site in Hereford. The confirmation, along with the fact that fast-growing toyshop chain The Entertainer

  • Charm redefined at Nightjar Music

    WHEN Flossie Malavialle took to the stage at The Courtyard on Thursday evening, she redefined charm - because what could be more charming than a Frenchwoman speaking fluent English with a strong Geordie accent (she arrived on a teaching exchange and liked

  • Hereford United's new chairman revealed

    FORMER Hereford United player David Keyte is the club’s new chairman. Mr Keyte was confirmed in the role at a press conference this afternoon at Edgar Street. Broadcaster Tim Russon, the former head of sport at Central News South, is

  • Herefordshire's cricketers prepare for Wales clash at Usk

    HEREFORDSHIRE will have three new faces in their side for their opening Minor Counties Championship Western Division match against Wales, starting on Sunday. Hatherley & Reddings seamer Callum Stewart, Kenilworth off-spinner Daniel Vernon and Ombersley

  • Missing Ledbury woman found

    A MISSING Ledbury woman has been found safe and well. Louella Seabourne, aged 60, was last found at 5pm on Tuesday at Ledbury Market House in High Street by a member of staff at the Leadon Bank Care Home that she is staying at. Police confirmed that

  • Ledbury arsonist pleads guilty

    A MAN has admitted setting fire to the Talbot Hotel in Ledbury, two housing association properties and an estate agents on the same night last year. Shane Bird, aged 22, of Aston Close, Ledbury, yesterday entered his guilty pleas at Worcester Crown

  • Serial fraudster jailed for scam

    A SERIAL fraudster who spent five years in prison in the 1990s has been jailed for another five after deceiving the likes of the Archbishop of Canterbury in a £2.5 million scam. Herefordshire-born businessman Peter Sainsbury, who was also detained

  • Hundreds sign up for supermarket GP centre to stay

    HUNDREDS have signed a petition asking for Hereford’s new GP walk-in centre to stay at Asda. Almost 700 people are opposed to it being moved to a new purpose-built unit near the A&E department at the County Hospital. Belmont ward Councillor Glenda

  • Can't buy me love? Bro with sis for sale disagrees

    THEY say you can’t put a price on love but Simon Lloyd seems to disagree – he has just put his single sister up for sale on the internet. Simon, from Hereford, is auctioning off his long-suffering sibling Becky on eBay after a two-year promise