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  • Re-appeal over fatal collision on A49 near Hereford

    POLICE want to speak to three witnesses who saw a fatal crash on the A49 near Hereford. Rick Walford, aged 38, of Bronydd, near Hay-on-Wye, was riding a black 1000cc motorbike that was in collision with three other vehicles between King's Thorn

  • Edward Pritchard is astonished tree is cut down

    TO lose a mature tree of important landscape value is quite astonishing and needs to be explained. To read that council spokesman Alison Grange had said this tree was dangerous and overhung the public lavatories and motorcycle bays and was a “hazard

  • Hereford wins Enterprise Zone status

    AN ENTERPRISE Zone is to be created in Hereford. It has just been announced that the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership bid to create a enterprise zone at Rotherwas has been successful. This will focus on the defence and security sectors. Mike Ashton

  • Diocese of Hereford welcomes African visitor

    THE Diocese of Hereford has welcomed an African visitor as part of a farming project to turn parts of the Tanzanian coast green. Mugove Nyika, an expert on environmental education with a special knowledge of sustainable agriculture, has been helping

  • Technology helps catch Wye poachers

    ONE of the county’s oldest crimes is making a comeback to be targeted by 21st century technology. A new generation of poachers is being blamed for the low wild salmon numbers in the Wye over the past two years. Now the Environment Agency (EA)

  • Malcolm Lockett is looking for former members of 1960s band

    I AM trying to trace someone I worked with in the 1960s in Hereford and I wondered if readers could assist me. I lived and worked in Hereford for approximately three-and-a-half years from April 1963 to September 1966. I was employed as a butcher in the