A HUSBAND has today been charged with murdering his wife who has been missing from a north Herefordshire village since January. John Taylor, aged 63, will appear at Hereford Magistrates Court tomorrow (Saturday) morning. His wife Alethea
Have you got a song in your heart? If so then you and a group of like-minded friends or colleagues should tune in for news of an event that will strike a chord. A Last Choir Standing event is planned for Herefordshire in September to raise money for
As many as 25,000 people are expected to join in with the Diamond Day celebrations when the Queen visits Hereford on July 11. It was revealed this week that events will be taking place on the King George V playing fields from 8.30am to 4.30pm, including
IF money must be spent on yet another prestige road “refurbishment”, rather than filling in the disastrous potholes that now abound in the city and make life a daily hazard for drivers, why can it not be spent in putting right the dangerously
PICTURE the scene, You arrive at one of the best hidden, but most beautiful spots in rural north Herefordshire where an array of the finest local food and drink has been painstakingly assembled to ensure a carefully selected range of flavours. The aroma
FOUR children have been rescued after getting stranded on an island in the River Wye in Hay. Emergency services were called to Bridge Street at 11.55am. The group had been canoeing, but there was no sign of any canoes when crews arrived
A MOTORBIKE and a van were in collision near Ross-on-Wye this morning. Emergency services were called outside the post office in Bishopswood shortly before 9am. The motorcyclist sustained arm and shoulder injuries and was taken to hospital for further
A planetary phenomenon that will not happen again for 100 years has been captured on camera in the skies above Herefordshire. Marcus Clifford went to the top of Symonds Yat to watch the transit of Venus. The 18-year-old, a member of
HEREFORD United director of football Gary Peters will not attend a fans forum at Edgar Street next week. Peters said he doesn't want the new management duo of Martin Foyle and Andy Porter to get "tangled up" with what went on last season. He said: "
THE winner of the Courtyard’s open mic competition says he cannot wait to make the audience laugh again. Phil Pearcy was the stand-out star at the contest during the CourtLaughing comedy festival and won a ten minute slot at one of the Courtyard
A FOURTEEN-hour music festival is to take place at a Hereford pub. Occupy The Spread will feature a number of DJs playing the latest sounds at The Spread Eagle on Saturday, July 14. Headline act is J-Me* Griffiths, who is a Ministry of Sound DJ
The rain is pouring over opening day of the Three Counties Show but hasn't put a damper on spirits. Livestock competitions are well underway at this year's show where there is a record breaking number of entries with 2,975 horses and 920 cattle heading
ONE of Hereford’s most famous characters is to finally say goodbye after greeting shoppers for more than a decade. Holding aloft an apple like the Statue of Liberty, Mercia Man has towered over the car park on Gaol Street ever since he was created out
THE Dore Abbey Music Festival will open on Friday, June 22, with a special four-hands piano recital by the young Russian pianist Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen, who will play on the same magnificent Steinway D instrument used by John Lill last
IVOR George re-creates the sound, look and spirit of John Denver, in a one-man tribute show next week. Denver was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s, recording 300 songs, 200 of which he composed himself, the best-known of which
An epic 22-day walk through Wales will start at Llanthony Priory near the Herefordshire border tomorrow (Saturday). The Pilgrim Walk is part the Welsh Government's Cultural Olympiad ahead of London 2012. See pilgrimage2012.co.uk for details.
FORTUNATELY we can still comment on the proposals referred to in your article headed “shape of city to come” (Hereford Times, May 31) before they are set in stone. Your timely article also reminds us to look again for a vision for Hereford’s
