Hereford Cathedral: 8am, Holy Communion; 10am, Cathedral Eucharist; 11.30am, Matins; 3.30pm, Evensong. All Saints: 10.30am, Sung Mass with Children's Church. St Peter: 8am, Holy Communion; 10.30am, Morning Worship; 10.30am, Morning Worship. St James
Events/talks April 27 Kingstone Surgery charitable Trust Quiz, Kingstone Village Hall, 7.15pm. 28 Talk on Cheltenham Museum Collections by Mary Greensted for Friends of Herefordshire Museum and Arts, Holmer Parish Rooms, 11am. 01432 845897. All welcome
AT school in Bromyard and later at Hereford Sixth Form College, Bryan Corbett had two great loves - music and sport. Today, he is so busy playing one that he has no time for playing the other. Even as he left university in Liverpool, "I wanted to be
THE past, said LP Hartley, is another country, a truth powerfully borne out by Harold Pinter's Old Times, playing until Saturday at Malvern Theatre. Filmmaker Deeley (Neil Pearson) and his cool, enigmatic wife Kate (Janie Dee) live in an isolated farmhouse
KINGTON artist Ronald Swanwick is having an exciting 2007 - having been chosen for two major events in the art world - and an exhibition at his gallery offers an opportunity to see new pieces from an artist who has had a lifelong obsession with painting
THREE top local bands are staging a huge fund-raising gig at Hereford's Royal National College for the Blind main hall on Saturday in aid of the Little Princess Trust. Kicking off the evening are Angels One Five, a fresh-faced band playing a mix of everyone's
THE sensational Moscow-based Russian Cossack State Dance Company are coming to Hereford's Courtyard with their breathtaking, dynamic production featuring dazzling displays of highly skilled, acrobatic Cossack dance. "Forget Riverdance," said one reviewer
THE Saturday Cafe, the series of informal lunchtime music gigs at the Courtyard, has just released its May line-up, starting on Saturday with a welcome return visit from Bridget and the Big Girls' Blues, who pay homage to the great women of the blues
THREE big events will be marked this weekend as the Royal Shakespeare Company celebrates the close of The Complete Works Festival, Shakespeare's 443rd birthday and 75 years of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with an unmissable day of workshops, discussions
HUNDREDS of pounds worth of damage was done to a car after a tin of paint was poured over it. The blue Austin Mini pick-up was parked in Hereford Road, Bromyard, and paint seeped inside the car causing damage to seats. The incident happened between
WHILE everyone else is rushing around in a frenzy of 21st century activity, Jeremy Hardy, who brings his stand-up show to the Courtyard next week, is busy getting not much done. His broadband's gone down and attempts to have it fixed are proving almost
JENNY Valentine, whose first novel, Finding Violet Park, was published in January and whose second is already completed, has recently started a new job at Hay Wholefoods. It's the only thing I know how to do," she says, having worked in a wholefood shop
HEREFORD United have the chance to have a major say in the make-up of the League 2 play-off places when they meet Shrewsbury Town at Edgar Street on Saturday, kick-off 12 noon, writes RICHARD PRIME The Shropshire club had looked near certainties to clinch
MINOR Counties cricket returns to Kington for the first time in three seasons when the Recreation Ground hosts Herefordshire's MCCA Trophy clash with Shropshire on Sunday, starting at 11am. Pitch problems have prevented the border club from hosting a
LADS Club won their first silverware of the season with a 3-1 success against Ewyas Harold in the final of the Hereford Times Herefordshire League Journal Cup. Lads Club made a fine start with goals from Shaun Gallagher and skipper and man-of-the-match
THE Harpton Cup - one of Kington's leading medal trophies - produced a close finish with John Moses winning on countback from Ross Moore after they both finished on nett 65s. Results, winner: John Moses 82-17-65; division one: 1 Ross Moore 73-8-65, 2
MATTHEW Morgan of Military D is the new singles champion of the Central Roofing Hereford and District Skittles League after a final victory over Alan Silcox (Fire Brigade). Consistent skittling by Silcox brought him legs of 7-8-7-8 for a score of 30,
A FIRM favourite in the harness world will be returning to the helm after an absence of more than 16 years. Conway Price will be resuming the position of chairman of Wales and West Harness Racing Ltd after his position announced at the annual meeting
THE curtain comes down on the 2006/7 National Hunt racing season on Saturday. When the awards are handed out, once again the Champion Jockey will be Tony McCoy and the Champion Trainer - for the second time - will be Paul Nicholls. While the top rider
RADNOR Riding Club have produced one of their best displays to gain fourth place at the British Riding Clubs NAF Five Star Superflex junior novice indoor show jumping championship at Hartpury. But the four-strong team of Storm Fowler, Edward Jones, Oliver
IRILUT, ridden by Sam Waley-Cohen, was the winner of a dramatic race for the Lady Dudley Cup at the Worcestershire Hunt point to point meeting at Chaddesley Corbett Saturday which saw the demise of the two leading betting market leaders on the final circuit
JOCKEY Andrew Thornton has endured a frustrating season with injuries but he showed he can still perform with a polished performance aboard front-running Pauntley Gofa to win the two-mile handicap chase at Hereford. Aboard the 11-year-old 20/1 outsider
PROMOTED Wormelow and Monmouth will be looking to make an early impression when they make their debuts in the Worcestershire League Division 2 on Saturday. The pair, who clinched the top two spots in Division 3 South last season after moving up from
FIVE kayakers from Hereford have been taking part in the gruelling Devizes to Westminster 125-mile international kayak race. The event is split into K2 and K1 and Shaun Thrower, who last year won the K2 section with Steve King, tried his hand this time
POTTING Shed Z went seven points clear at the top of Hereford Snooker League with three games remaining in their quest to regain the title. They beat clubmates and title rivals Potting Shed M 3-2 Tom Cousins beating Ross Hood in the decider. Miller
ALTHOUGH Kington have now gained promotion to Division 3 of the Birming-ham League, there will still be three Herefordshire clubs looking to follow them up as champions of the Crusader Worcestershire League Division 1. Among the favourites to head the
TWENTY-NINE girls and three staff members from Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School returned with successes from a netball tour in Malta. The pupils had one day of intensive coaching and then competed in two tournaments at two levels - under-14 and under
HEREFORD Couriers' Tim Clarke was just outside the record time when he won the Shobdon Wood six-mile multi-terrain race in 34 mins 30 secs. His team-mate Matt James was second in 35.02 and third was Mike Fawcett of Wye Valley in 35.25, while Couriers
HEREFORD Schools Under-15 and Under-14 teams completed their league fixtures with narrow defeats against Solihull. The Under-15s, needing to win by three goals to pip Coventry and finish in the top two, piled on the pressure against league winners Solihull
A NEW block containing flats and a restaurant will be built in place of public toilets in Hereford. Planning permission and conservation area consent was granted for the development to be built in Union Street yesterday. A total of six residential units
DILWYN sculler Daniel Middleton, now a member of the West Midlands Performance Squad based at Evesham, achieved double gold medal successes in the English Regional Championships at Nottingham's six-lane Holme Pierrepont course. Selected the previous
Presteigne 4 Aberystwyth Reserves 0 TWO wins in four days mean that Presteigne stand on the brink of their first ever Spar Mid Wales League title. After a goalless first period, Presteigne pressed strongly after the break and took the lead when Luke
GYMNASTICS in Here-ford is on the up again with the newly-formed Sparks club going from strength to strength, writes Richard Prime. When the successful and long-established Harle-quins club closed its doors 18 months ago, it left a large void for gymnasts
Luctonians 102 pts Camp Hill 0 NORTH Midlands Cup holders Luctonians stormed to a semi-final place with an overwhelming victory against lower-graded opponents Any notion that Luctonians would have difficulty maintaining their momentum after the previous
IT needed a golden try' to decide the Under-8 Tag final of Luctonians Anglo-Welsh Mini Rugby Festival. Ledbury and Longlevens were 4-4 at the end of normal time in a closely fought final. So the first to score in extra time would take the title and
Droitwich 2nd 19 pts Hereford 3rd 26 HEREFORD rallied well to inflict only the second defeat of the season on the Herefordshire & Worc-estershire Merit Table Division 2 leaders. Droitwich piled on 19 unanswered points in the first period and, with
Hereford 27 pts Luctonians 5 HEREFORD established county bragging rights at under-14 level with a comfortable win in the North Midlands Under-14 Cup final. The young Wyesiders made a lively start and after forwards Craig Beaumont, Jake
DESPITE losing their last two games, HLC Halo held on at the top of the 6asideleagues.com Hereford Premier Division to take the title from Gamecock.
Phoenix 3 Leafield Athletic 2 PHOENIX kept alive their hopes of runners-up spot in the Central Warwick-shire under-16 league with a dramatic late win against all the odds. The city side were able to field only 10 players and were two goals adrift
Wellington 4 Shawbury 4 AFTER being in front for much of the first half, Wellington needed two goals in the closing minutes to share the West Midlands League Premier Division points in an eight-goal thriller. Keith Jones met a Will Perkins free-kick
WELLINGTON Rangers held their nerve to beat off a spirited challenge from lowly Fownhope, running out 2-0 home winners to keep their Hereford Times Here-fordshire League Premier Division title challenge well on course. Fownhope gave as good as they got
THE body of a man who had been missing from his home in Bromyard since Monday has been recovered from the River Teme. Frederick Boucher, aged 61 and from Oak Close, was reported missing by his family when he failed to make contact or return home. His
PLAYERS and officials old and new have been celebrating Sutton United's 60th anniversary and paying tribute to the man who has been the club's cornerstone throughout those six decades. Jim Williams, who is now 78, has been at the heart of matters since
ON odd occasions this season we have thrown in a really poor performance which has led to an embarrassing result and it was very similar at Peterborough. The difference between Peterborough and previous games of that nature was that Peterborough have
Gornal Athletic 1 Bromyard Town 2 BROMYARD gave their West Midlands League Premier Division survival hopes a massive boost with a hard-earned win at highly-rated Gornal. With a strong wind in their faces, Bromyard's defence worked tirelessly
Pegasus Juniors 1 Carterton 2 A LACK-lustre Sport Italia Hellenic League Premier Division display saw Pegasus slip to another home defeat. But the city side had only themselves to blame after some wasteful finishing prevented them from building up
Swansea City 2 Hereford United 1 SWANSEA, with their first-team manager Roberto Martinez looking on, made a lively start to this Puma Youth Alliance South West Conference clash. The home side, with the incentive of professional contracts to play
Sinkum 2 Moorfields 0 SINKUM claimed their first piece of silverware when they overcame Moorfields' strong first-half showing to carry off the Jewson Herefordshire Sunday League Division 2 Cup. Sinkum were grateful to goalkeeper Adam Rocke who turned
Westfields 3 Oadby Town 1 TWO goals from leading scorer Mark Davis helped Westfields to complete their Polymac Services Midland Alliance home programme on a high note. Davis gave Oadby early notice of his threat when he shot narrowly over in the opening
WESTFIELDS will end their 40th anniversary in style with a visit from the Aston Villa Old Stars on Sunday, May 6. Several members of the Villa squad's European Cup winning side are likely to appear with the provisional line-up containing names such as
PERFECT conditions prevailed for Hereford and District Riding Club (H&DRC) at the first show of the season earlier this month. In addition to the monthly unaffiliated show jumping competitions, H&DRC is running evening show jumping competitions and
A Herefordshire riding club has recently kicked off its summer season and is hoping more riders than ever will join in the many events - and maybe become members. Marden and district RC meets regularly for various events at its outdoor venue of Houghton
The first two of a set of three paintings of the Best of British horses, to mark the BHS's 60th anniversary are due to be unveiled at Badminton. The triptych of paintings by renowned equine artist Nikki Moore feature great British bred or trained horses
A PROFESSIONAL horsewoman from Orleton has urged riders to be cautious about returning to the saddle after a fall. Alison Moore is affected by balance problems, walks with a stick and has been unable to ride for a couple of years - problems following
A RATHER unusual sight will greet visitors to Hereford and District Driving Group's annual show on Sunday, May 6 - a display of driving goats! The long-forgotten pursuit of driving goats dates back to the Victorian era and is kept alive and well through
HAY Horse Show may be one of the oldest horse-only town shows in the country - and now organisers want Hereford Times readers to help them trace its origins. They are about to start researching the event's beginnings, details of which seem to have been
A SPORTS pavilion has burnt down during a busy night for Hereford firefighters. Fire crews were called to the incident in Chatsworth Road at 2.39am this morning to find the wooden building well alight on their arrival. The incident is being treated
