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The ducks, they’ve gone on strike
4:55pm Wednesday 14th May 2008
NO, Mr John Miller (May 1), your experience of roaming ducks around High Town and beyond was by no means due to your over-imbibing. They’ve gone on strike. Just fancy one ever getting into the council office. Here’s another true story. In my wee pond around the corner, I have again this year a mother duck lovingly caring for her brood of four. I’m feeding them, and my small courtyard is now inundated and soiled by many duck friends who can’t quite make it to Tesco but are madly keen to assert their rights to a healthy meal. Yesterday a kindly and distraught lady visited me to find out what had happened to my little family.
When the Bluebirds last played in the final
4:53pm Wednesday 14th May 2008
WITH reference to the Cup Final 2008. I was taken by my father to see the Cup Final at the (new) Wembley Stadium when Cardiff City won the FA Cup 81 years ago.
No way through when there really is
8:00am Saturday 10th May 2008
DO any other of your readers share my increasing annoyance at the spate of unreliable ‘Road Closed’ notices which are proliferating the Shobdon and Pembridge areas of the county at present.
Time for another ‘rubbish’ campaign
8:00am Saturday 10th May 2008
THANK you Hereford Times for yet again publishing the letters about the state of our city (I remember your previous Don’t rubbish Hereford campaign).
Together we could change bad habits
8:00am Friday 9th May 2008
I was interested to see the letters about litter in Hereford as I too have felt this friendly and attractive city is being blighted by litter which spoils it for residents and visitors alike. I know, from conversations with both friends and council officials responsible for the collection of litter, that the problem seems greater than the resources available to deal with it.
Just a derelict heap
8:00am Friday 9th May 2008
Is anything going to be done about that derelict heap that used to be Campions Restaurant on the riverbank as you go over Greyfriars Bridge into Hereford?
I’m wondering what the point of it is
11:58am Thursday 8th May 2008
I WOULD imagine many members of the general public like myself are doing their bit to save the planet earth from the effects of global warming. I recycle as much waste as possible at home and at work, I changed my domestic light bulbs for more energy efficient ones, I always consider whether a car journey is really necessary and a host of other measures in the struggle to ‘do my bit’.
Getting the priorities absolutely - wrong
11:56am Thursday 8th May 2008
I AM delighted to have it confirmed Gordon Brown and his cronies have a keen sense of ‘our’ priorities.
Plans discovered through the Hereford Times
11:54am Thursday 8th May 2008
THE Hereford Times’ article on S & A Group’s proposed new development at Arrow Fisheries (April 24) commented on the relatively few objections thus far made by local residents. That may be because relatively few of us were aware of these proposals until reading your article! After reading it, I asked Herefordshire Council who I should contact if I wished to make my views as a council tax payer known. I was told: “You can’t - the period of consultation is over”. Eh? What period of consultation. When and where did the council make known to its electors that a matter of such serious import to the people of North Herefordshire required their input? It’s been difficult to find transparency about this whole business. I challenge your readers to go to the website of the council’s planning department (they have already recommended acceptance of S&A’s application, by the way) and easily find any information on it. Try their helpful on-site search engine. Type in Arrow Fisheries - nothing. Type S & A Davies or “S & A Group or Leominster Fisheries - absolutely nothing. So I popped into the council offices in Corn Square, Leominster, for help. The very nice lady there (who had also just read about it in the Hereford Times) had absolutely no better luck than me and gave up. And mind - she works for the council and was searching on the council’s own computer… When eventually a more senior official responded to my stubbornness and found me the planning application number, I finally managed to read it. Among many very disturbing things I read, I will quote only one to your readers. S&A propose to build - and I use the words of their own submission exactly - “313 accommodation pods, which are metal containers. The accommodation pods have the character of lorry/shipping containers”. When there is an intent, in the 21st century, to house more than 1,000 human beings in metal shipping containers for months on end, then maybe it’s not so surprising some folk don’t want us to know too much about it, James Miller, Bargates, Leominster.
New railway station solves many issues
11:51am Thursday 8th May 2008
AS a resident of Kington, I am delighted and intrigued at the idea of the old railway line from Leominster to Kington being re-opened one day. In the meantime, would it not be worth considering a far simpler and cheaper project? I refer to the possibility of building a railway station south of Hereford.
National News
Flypast for Dambusters anniversary
Updated 11:55am Friday 16th May 2008
A Lancaster bomber swooped over a Peak District reservoir to mark the 65th anniversary of the Dambusters raid.
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Presidents and legends
THE 21st Hay Literary Festival starts on May 22 and booking has opened for an exciting fortnight...
Sing out and make music
THE Music Pool, Hereford’s community music charity, is hosting a special public event aimed at anyone wanting to discover the pleasure of singing – a day of singing exercises, games, harmony singing and songs from around the world will be led by nationally acclaimed Sue Hollingworth of the Voices Foundation.
Inspector Morse creator at Leominster Festival
A VISIT by the creator of Inspector Morse, Colin Dexter, will be one of the highlights of the 2008 Leominster Festival, which runs from Friday, May 30, to Sunday, June 8, and this year promises something for everyone.
Double delight
THE internationally renowned identical twin sisters Antoinette and Claire Cann will be performing a sparkling programme of piano duets at St John the Baptist Church, Aymestrey, near Leominster on Saturday, May 24, at 7.30pm. Antoinette and Claire first played the piano when they were three years old, picking out tunes on the family piano. “The first thing we picked out was the theme to Listen with Mother.” Starting lessons was apparently the only time the pair were at odds about their playing. “Toni was very keen to go,” says Claire. “But at the time, Claire was shy,” adds Antoinette.
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