KINGTON scored twice in the second half to secure a 2-0 home win against Bishop’s Castle in the KBS League. The hosts had a high number of goal attempts in the first half but Castle defended strongly. Karen Stephens put Kington ahead after the break
IMPROVED build quality both inside and out is apparent with the new generation of Suzuki vehicles. The SX4, for instance, which is put together in Suzuki’s Hungarian plant alongside the almost identical Fiat Sedici, benefits from the Japanese company
YOUTH CLUB – The programme of evening events for the youth club this term are as follows: Today (Thursday): St Dwynwen night – Welsh Valentines, Thursday, January 29: Personal safety night, Thursday, February 5: Pancake night, Thursday, February 12:
MUM & TOTS – The mums and tots meet in the village centre every Friday from 10am to 11.30am. Details from Catherine on 07889 049194. New members always welcome. COFFEE MORNING – The next fortnightly coffee morning will be at the village centre tomorrow
VILLAGE LOTTERY – With his number 39, Jim Fisk scooped this week’s £25. JOINT MEETING – Councillor D B Wilcox, the cabinet member responsible for highways in the county, has agreed to meet the chairman and vice-chairman from Madley Parish Council and
FLICKS IN THE STICKS – On Wednesday, February 4, (note new day), at the village hall at 7.30pm The Duchess will be shown. Bar, or bring your own refreshments. Tickets £3.50. Village Hall – The village hall AGM will be on Thursday, January 29. The committee
PARISH COUNCIL MEETING – At the Bosbury and Coddington Parish Council meeting on January 8, various highway issues were discussed. The chairman, Gerald Blandford, met with Herefordshire Council and the landowner to discuss the problems of flooding at
A HEREFORDSHIRE library is to undergo some exciting changes in the next two years because it will house local services. Info in Herefordshire, Herefordshire Council’s centre for information, will be moving from Swan House in Ross-on-Wye to the town’s
THE perfect way to get a business in shape in 2009 could be to attend the Chamber of Commerce Herefordshire and Worcestershire Business Expo 09, which is taking place at the Leisure Centre, Holmer Road, on Wednesday, March 25. The chamber has always
PEOPLE wanting to stop smoking, cut back on alcohol, take more exercise and shed weight can get free help in Hereford-shire. It is being offered by the Health Trainer Service run by NHS Herefordshire and is a phone call away. Co-ordinator Mike Bosley
A NEW vision for health and social care services in Herefordshire should start to become clear by April. Throughout the year, groups of people have been working together to look at how services are provided now and to consider if they could be improved
THE cans and plastics recycling bins at the Old Barn Post Office and Stores, Longtown, are perpetually full. It is very frustrating to make the six mile round trip with my month’s worth of recyclables, only to have to bring them home again, wasting
I am responding to Mr J Mitchell’s letter in Readers’ Times on January 1. He states that he uses the outside lane to effectively go straight on at roundabouts. Rule 184 to 190 of the current Highway Code will clear up this common mistake. It
AN appeal has been launched after a horse rider was assaulted in Herefordshire. Pete Butcher, police press officer, said a man and his daughter were riding along a country lane in Petty France, near Ledbury at around 11.45am on Thursday January 15.
A HEREFORD man has been hailed a hero after he saved the life of a woman who had fallen into the freezing River Wye. Jason Pardoe, aged 33, from Belmont, was walking home near the Victoria Bridge shortly before 3am last Friday, when he heard
THANK you to Mark Bowen, the editor and staff of Hereford Times for the road safety campaign throughout 2008. We have all been very interested in the subjects that you have covered and a copy of the Hereford Times has often been passed around at our
WITH the possible exception of keen walkers and ice skaters, few people will have seen much advantage in the wintry weather experienced during December and early January. Travelling became difficult, and the foggy, sheet ice conditions of our local
WHEN Bromyard traders noticed a broken window on their high street, many thought drunken yobs had struck. But the boarded window at a former shoe store wasn’t due to vandalism – only a merry young couple having a smashing time. Local businessman, Tony
THREE conmen posed as water company workers to steal £80 from a pensioner’s purse, a court heard. The three called on the 79-year-old woman at a sheltered housing complex in Hereford and said there was something wrong with her water supply, Gloucester
A DENTAL nurse from Bromyard is keeping her mouth shut in a bid to raise charity funds. Kate Beale is used to having her face covered - but she’s being gagged to raise money for Breast Cancer Haven. The nurse is holding a sponsored silence at Smith,
A HEREFORD supermarket had to shut temporarily when large parts of the city lost power on Tuesday afternoon. Sainsbury’s was left without electricity for about 20 minutes on two occasions at around 12.15pm and 12.50pm, resulting in the checkouts shutting
MATT James of Hereford Couriers and Suzanne Turvey of Croft Ambrey Running Club consolidated their leading positions in the contest for individual honours, while the Wye Valley Runners men’s team and Hereford Couriers women’s team continued their dominance
LEVEN Brown clambered up a 15-metre rope in gale-force winds after his record-breaking rowing attempt was abandoned in dramatic circumstances in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Herefordshire adventurer and his crew were rescued last week after
Elements at heart of work WATER, earth and fire are the influences of the three well-established local artists exhibiting at Galanthus’ first exhibition of 2009 entitled Deep Water Mystery Forest. Sue Maud’s new paintings and prints reflect the way
FOLLOWING the success of last year’s impressive production of Rona Munro’s Iron at The Courtyard, local drama company 4Play continue their commitment to serving up hard-hitting drama. On this year’s 4Play menu is a double bill of challenging theatre
YOUNG farmers representing 11 YFC clubs in Herefordshire will be demonstrating their hedgelaying skills at the annual County Hedging Match on Sunday. This year’s match is moving to Upper Wall End Farm, Monkland, near Leominster. Competitors taking part
FRESH from riding another two winners at Hereford Racecourse this week, the long-time Champion Jockey Tony McCoy will soon reach another landmark. Early next week – or possibly by this weekend – he will ride his 3,000th National Hunt winner. At 34,
startling and evocative voice has enchanted audiences from WOMAD to the South Bank to Sarajevo, and she has appeared with the best in the business, including Youssou N’Dour, Geofrrey Oryema and Martin Carthy. On Saturday, at Kimbolton Village Hall, she
HEREFORD United will be hoping that they do not fall victim to the ‘curse of the new manager’ for the second time in just over a month. The Bulls were beaten at Huddersfield Town on December 20 in Lee Clark’s first match after taking over at the Galpharm
THE Hereford concert of this year’s Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival was given in the grand drawing room of the Bishop’s Palace, a perfect venue for chamber music, with a fine Yamaha grand piano. The audience was treated to performances of great artistry
NICK James is the 2008 Herefordshire Raceway Open GP Champion. James has been competing on karts for three years and has finished in the top three every year. He won the best rookie in his first year. He now hopes to defend his
A VARIED and challenging programme has been devised by The Britten Singers’ founder and director Pamela White for the choir’s spring and summer concerts Rehearsals are already underway for their main concert at the end of April, which will feature a
A FORTHCOMING appearance by musical prodigy Derek Paravicini in Malvern is the result of a good deal of networking by a Ledbury woman. Jo Prickett, whose 16-year-old daughter Issy attends Barrs Court School in Hereford, felt that a fundraising concert
NINE non-professional Hereford dancers will join the cast of Dear Body at The Courtyard on Thursday, February 5, after attending workshops several weeks ago. Among them is Marie Troake, who said: “I’m so excited to be involved in a professional dance
WORK by Patrick Boyd, an artist and photographer who has gained an international reputation for his holograms, can currently be seen at Hereford College of Arts. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the Museum of Holography in New York in 1989, Patrick
THE Conquest Theatre in Bromyard has put out an urgent appeal to ensure that the curtain can go up on this year’s panto, Robinson Crusoe. It seems that the bad luck associated with Friday the 13th has struck the production, as cast member Liam Riley,
WORK by a number of Herefordshire artists can be seen in Brecon. Exhibiting at Number 10, The Struet, will be Brontë Woodruff, Anthea Stilwell and John Gibbs as well as four members of Abstract Edge – Peter Horrocks, Alison MacGregor Grimley, Rae Harrison
A GROUND-breaking exhibition that has, until now, only been seen in New York, Toronto and London has opened in Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, Broad Street. Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern Dusseldorf tells the unique story of German-Jewish
THE clash between the top two in the Hereford Times Herefordshire League Premier Division ended in a narrow 2-1 local-derby win for Sutton United against visiting Wellington Reserves. The game was well contested, but United looked the stronger side in
THE mystery surrounding an Egyptian pyramid will be revealed at Bromyard’s Conquest Theatre next week. Archaeologist Kendall Down will visit the venue on Thursday, January 29, to give his illustrated talk, The Pyramids of Kahnun. Mr Down, who leads
A MAN has been arrested after a Leominster pub full of mourners had to be evacuated because a smoke canister was deliberately set off. The canister was thrown into the Black Swan Hotel on West Street just after 7pm. Mourners were at
Aspire Midland Alliance: Coleshill Town 3 Westfields 1. FTL Futbol West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division: Ludlow Town 2 Bromyard Town 2, Wolverhampton Casuals 1 Ledbury Town 0, Wellington 0 Bewdley Town 1. FTL Futbol Hellenic League, Premier
Coleshill Town 3 Westfields 1. WESTFIELDS remain in the bottom-six of the Aspire Midland Alliance after conceding two penalties and an own goal in their defeat at Coleshill. The Hereford club missed four good goal-scoring opportunities and were disappointed
Swindon Town 4 Hereford United Youth 1. HEREFORD United opened the scoring against the leaders but finished well beaten in this Puma Youth Alliance South-West Division clash. Aidan Thomas broke the deadlock in the 12th minute after a shot from James
FORMER Aston Villa skipper Dennis Mortimer will be passing on his football experience in Hereford next month. Mortimer, who won the European Cup and League title with Villa, is the new FA regional coach development manager for the West Midlands. Mortimer
WORMELOW Cricket Club have attained the prestigious Clubmark status. This award recognises that the club is being run to standards laid down by the ECB, and increases the opportunity for it to apply for funding. The club’s annual meeting reflected on
FOLLOWING our 5-0 demolition of high-flying Oldham last Saturday, I watched the goals on Central TV on Sunday morning and the comment was: “Nobody could have seen this coming.” While perhaps the emphatic scoreline was not foreseeable, I certainly thought
PEGASUS Reserves will meet Leominster Town or Westfields Reserves in the final of the HFA Charity Bowl after coming from a goal down to beat Bromyard Town Reserves 2-1 in their semi-final tie at Old School Lane. Carl Long put Town ahead minutes before
EMERGENCY crews were called to an accident on a major road in Herefordshire this morning. An ambulance and two rapid response vehicles were called to the A49, one mile north of Leominster, shortly after 7am after a car had left the road. John Hawker
Luctonians 0 pts South Leicester 8. LUCTONIANS remain top of Midlands 1 after a shock home defeat against South Leicester at Mortimer Park. The north Herefordshire side failed to score a point and were desperately missing the leadership of virus-hit
Hereford 46 pts Solihull 10. HEREFORD moved up to third spot in Midlands 2 West after coming back from 10-3 down at Wyeside. The hosts dominated the second half, with the wind in their favour, and turned a 10-8 interval deficit into an emphatic victory
POLICE have launched an appeal after a digger was set on fire in Herefordshire. Pete Butcher, police press officer, said the Takeuchi make was being used at roadworks in Mabels Furlong in Ledbury, at the rear of John Masefield High School and
A GOAL from 70-year-old Phyl Dinnie helped Ross-on-Wye to a 4-0 home win over bottom-of-the-table Lansdown 3rd in Severn Division 2 of the West Clubs’ Women’s League. Dinnie marked her first appearance of the season with her side’s second goal after
FRESH from riding another two winners at Hereford Racecourse this week, the long-time Champion Jockey Tony McCoy will soon reach another landmark. Early next week – or possibly by this weekend – he will ride his 3,000th National Hunt winner. At 34,
WESTFIELDS twice came from behind to clinch a point from a 2-2 draw with visiting Oadby Town in the Aspire Midland Alliance on Tuesday night. Ryan Seal fired the Leicester club ahead in the eighth minute but Westfields levelled through a Mark Hibbard
WESTFIELDS twice came from behind to clinch a point from a 2-2 draw with visiting Oadby Town in the Aspire Midland Alliance on Tuesday night. Ryan Seal fired the Leicester club ahead in the eighth minute but Westfields levelled through a Mark Hibbard
HEREFORDSHIRE’S Rob Weale has booked his place in the quarter-finals of the Men’s World Indoor Singles Bowls Championship. Weale, the number 10 seed, defeated Mervyn King in a nail-biting third-round tie yesterday at the Potters Holidays World Indoor
A NEW housing development is set to be officially opened in Ledbury next Wednesday. The complex, also featuring commercial work space, is on the former Cottage Hospital site at The Homend. It features six shared ownership apartments and more than
TWO outbreaks of a sickness bug at Hereford County Hospital are believed to have been caused by a visitor to the wards. Hospital managers are urging the public not to go to the hospital if they are unwell or show any symptoms of sickness or diarrhoea
LEOMINSTER’S east-west bypass is back on the table with a big meeting tomorrow (Friday) to see how far it can go. A delegation from Leominster Town Council will pitch the road as a priority for Herefordshire Council’s transport plans saying the
A BROMYARD firm has cut its working week to three days. Bosses at Holden Aluminium Technologies, on the Linton Trading Estate, told their 48 staff on Monday that the days would be reduced. “It’s a temporary measure to get us through this time
A KINGTON alcoholic who died after falling over a plant pot had decided he wanted to give up drinking, an inquest heard. Dr Werner Dahlhaus said in a statement that when he visited Leslie Davies at home on June 18 last year the 50-year-old said he wanted
