A LEOMINSTER man has been jailed for three years for selling cocaine to his friends to fund his own £100-a-day habit. Worcester Crown Court heard that drugs worth £2,500 were seized when police raided Gavin Thomas’s home in Caswell Road, Leominster,
AN appeal has been launched to trace a young man verbally abused before a Hereford assault. The police are anxious to trace the young man who was shouted at during an alleged assault on the Great Western Way. The incident occurred on
A DIAMOND ring that once belonged to one of Britain’s greatest novelists is set to be auctioned in Herefordshire. The 0.9 carat gold ring was given to the great Charles Dickens by poet Alfred Tennyson back in 1854. The 150-year-old ring has changed
NORRIE Davies is so sold on Leominster she spends her spare time painting its shopfronts. Now other towns are looking to Norrie to put them in the picture. Norrie’s cards and calendars – depicting her distinctive take on Leominster’s shops,
A YOUNG family will bid farewell to Herefordshire and the Welsh borders next month when they embark on the trip of a lifetime to undertake charity work in Africa. Julie Sorenson, who works for Hereford arts charity the Music Pool, and her husband Tom
A HEREFORD college’s blacksmith department has made it to the regional finals of an award scheme. The National School of Blacksmithing at Hereford College of Technology’s Holme Lacy campus was nominated in the Daily Telegraph for the Best Traditional
A BODYGUARD trainer from Hereford has been convicted of assaulting his then partner in a city bar. Magistrates heard how former paratrooper Stephen Adams drunkenly pinned the woman against a wall by her throat. Adams, aged 49, was found guilty after
A COMPETITION to find a slogan for a Herefordshire market town has produced a glittering response. Bromyard is the “Jewel in the Downs” according to one creative resident. Town councillor Gary Swinford launched a slogan competition last November to
WORK is set to begin on refurbishing and modernising Belmont library. Features will include a new front desk, new shelving and new computers, along with more space for the children’s library. Herefordshire Council, together with the South Wye Community
COUNTY women who helped to keep Herefordshire’s farming industry alive during the Second World War are to be celebrated in a special service at Hereford Cathedral. Surviving Land Girls and Lumber Jills who joined farm and forestry workers across the
HEREFORD’S new river crossing road – or bypass by any other name – is now a priority project in a major transport action plan for the West Midlands. And it could be underway as soon as the housing market picks up. The direction of the route will now
USERS of Herefordshire Talking Newspapers have been told to expect a disruption to the service. The service, which provides a fortnightly digest of local news for people with impaired vision, will be delayed due to a problem with CD copying towers A
POLICE will be stopping motorists on the A44 at Broadwas this evening - one week after the death of a Herefordshire man following an accident on the road. A Honda Civic was travelling towards Bromyard when it was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall
A MISSING mother from Hereford has been found safe and well. Susan Roig, aged 33, from Tupsley, was reported as missing on Friday, but police confirmed that she was found in Bristol at 9pm that evening.
THE new voice of angling, the Angling Trust, has a base in Leominster. Six angling and conservation bodies have combined to create the Angling Trust. “It is an organisation angling has needed for many years,” said Stephen Marsh-Smith, the first chairman
A HEALTH-care project started nine years ago by Ledbury's Rotary Club has become a national and international success. Rotarian John Greedy has just returned from a trip to the Caribbean, where he has been spreading the word about the club's Diabetic
FIRE crews had to deal with two hedge fires in the county yesterday evening. A bin was set on fire in a hedge at Widemarsh Common in Hereford shortly before 8pm and a a fire spread to a shed in Pierrepont Road, Leominster at 10.45pm after some rubbish
A CAR was abandoned in the middle of a road in south Herefordshire and set on fire yesterday. Crews were called to Gatsford Lane in Brampton Abbotts, near Ross-on-Wye at around 4.45am and put the fire out. The police were informed about
A MAN was taken to hospital following an accident in Kington yesterday. Emergency crews from Leominster and Eardisley were called near to the Radnor and West Hereford kennels on the Kington to Presteigne road at around 6.25pm. Alec Mackie
A ELDERLY man was taken to hospital following a collision between a car and a lorry near Hay-on-Wye yesterday. Alec Mackie, fire press officer, said crews were called to the B4348 at Cusop at 4.40pm on Monday. Mr Mackie said the car overturned and the
A HEREFORD man hailed a hero for rescuing a woman from the freezing River Wye will be honoured by the mayor of Hereford today. Councillor Kevin Wargen will present Jason Pardoe with a commemorative plaque to mark his bravery this afternoon. Last week
A KINGTON butcher's bangers will come under scrutiny this week at the West Midlands Tastiest Sausage competition. Glyn Slade-Jones was chose to create the winning recipe in a Herefordshire Schools Best Banger competition run by organisers at
POLICE are investigating after a window was smashed in Hay-on-Wye town centre over the weekend during what they said was a 'drunken fight'. The damage is thought to have occurred at a property on Heol y Dwr during a disagreement between two
