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Internet image website, Street View, features historic house in Herefordshire

8:00am Monday 1st February 2010

ONE of Herefordshire’s most historic buildings can now be viewed across the world thanks to a popular internet image website.

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How modern technology and techniques are helping keep open the Offa’s Dyke Trail

8:00am Sunday 31st January 2010

The Offa’s Dyke Trail is one of the country’s most popular long-distance walks, based on the route of an ancient earthwork. MIKE PRYCE reports on the hi-tech renovation techniques keeping it open in the 21st century. King Offa had a dyke built to keep marauding Welsh hordes out of the kingdom of Mercia. Today, a footpath based on its route is a magnet for thousands of people enjoying walks in the beautiful Marches Countryside. “Being a cross-border route gives the Offa’s Dyke Trail a special edge, as you criss-cross back and forth following history” – Rob Dingle A lone walker watches as a helicopter airlifts stone for the renovation works onto remote Hatterall Ridge on the rugged and highest Black Mountain section of the Offa’s Dyke National Trail.

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Local scenes painted by Hereford artist finally identified

7:00am Friday 29th January 2010

BRUSHES with the past put Robin Thorndyke in the picture, framing a landscape that inspired one of Britain’s great lost talents.

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Wildlife leaves its mark on our wintry landscape

3:56pm Thursday 21st January 2010

THE recent prolonged spell of severe weather makes us realise just how much we take our normal ordered lives for granted, and, for those of us living in the more rural areas of our county, the importance of being able to get out to attend to everyday business.

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Hereford family grateful for Red Cross care and compassion which spanned generations and the globe

1:28pm Thursday 14th January 2010

One Herefordshire family has special reason to be thankful for the work of the Red Cross. And their personal connections, going back more than 60 years, illustrate how vital the organisation’s work has been both in wartime and at peace.

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Paul Deneen from Ross-on-Wye named in New Year's Honours

7:00am Thursday 7th January 2010

EDUCATION, policing, law, healthcare – there are few areas of county life that Paul Deneen hasn’t been actively involved in to earn his OBE which he dedicates to the “sacrifices” of his parents in setting him on course.

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Alison McLean, champion of rural communities, is OBE

7:00am Thursday 7th January 2010

FOR 25 years Alison McLean has been helping to strengthen the voice of people living in the countryside.

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Bobbie Heavens receives MBE for services to tourism

7:00am Thursday 7th January 2010

BOBBIE Heavens says the true legacy of the tourism work that has earned her an MBE is in the friendships forged along the way.

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Chief Fire Officer, Hereford and Worcester, receives Queen's Fire Service Medal

7:00am Thursday 7th January 2010

THE chief fire officer for Hereford and Worcester Fire Service has been awarded the Queen’s Fire Service Medal in recognition of his distinguished service.

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Recognition for Herefordshire's Waterworks Museum

7:00am Thursday 7th January 2010

A MAN who has transformed the Waterworks Museum into one of the most celebrated in the country has been awarded an MBE.

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