HAVING presented 2011’s Let’s Get Cooking Hereford, national treasure and The Courtyard’s honorary patron Lorraine Kelly is returning to the venue to host a very special tea party. Enjoy a fabulous teatime spread with bubbly, and meet Lorraine
AN air raid shelter in the grounds of a historic castle could be demolished. The bomb protection unit in the garden of Eastnor Castle has, thankfully, been unused since the end of the Second World War. Built in 1940, the shelter has two entrances
A TOWN in South Powys is set to host its first walking festival next month (May). The festival in Talgarth – one of the gateway towns to the Black Mountains – will take place between Saturday May 4 and Monday May 6. It will feature both low-impact
SCHOOL CONCERT – Weobley High School variety concert takes place on April 25 at 7pm in the school hall. Tickets are available from the school office or by calling 01544 318159, adults £3, children £2. ZUMBA FITNESS – Hopelands village hall, Wednesdays
GARDEN CLUB – Wellington garden club will meet in the community centre today (Thursday) at 7.30pm. Our speaker for the evening will be Victoria Louge who will show us all about practical propagation, how to obtain plants for free, always useful but
COUNTRY PRODUCE MARKET – April 27, 10am to 12noon, at Vowchurch village hall. The best produce from the Golden Valley; cheeses, delicatessen, bread, chocolates, honey, preserves, apple juice, sausages and pies. Cafe serving fresh coffee, homemade
BREAKFAST – To commemorate both the Queen’s birthday and St George’s Day, the village hall committee will be supplying their usual extensive breakfast in the hall on Saturday. GARDENING CLUB – On Tuesday, at 8pm the gardening club will meet in
WHIST DRIVE – Held on April 12. Thank you to everybody who helped or supported the event in any way. An enjoyable evening was had by all.
FLICKS IN THE STICKS – Presents Shadow Dancer (15) at the village hall today (Thursday) at 7.30pm. This is the last Flicks of this season. Bar, tea/coffee. See www.artsalive.co.uk/events for more details. QUIZ – A quiz (with Andy Offer as quizmaster
EVENING OF THANKS - Cwm Harry Land Trust staged an event in the memorial hall to thank people of Presteigne and Norton for their hard work and success in recycling over the last three years. The community achieved a 75% recycling rate with 95%
BINGO – The Orcop churchyard bingo will be held at Orcop village hall tomorrow (Friday). Doors open at 7.30pm, eyes down at 8pm. Everyone welcome. TABLE TOP SALE – Will be held on May 18 at 2pm in the parish hall. Free entry for buyers. Light
MUCH COWARNE RACE NIGHT – Much Cowarne PCC have organised a race night to be held at 7.30pm tomorrow (Friday) at The Plough, Stoke Lacy. Entrance £5 to include light refreshments. All welcome. Proceeds in aid of Much Cowarne church.
ANNUAL CHURCH MEETING – The ACM of Marden Church will take place at 7.30pm on Tuesday at Marden community hall. As well as reports on the fabric of the church and current financial situation, there will be updates on various projects. We will also
COFFEE MORNING – A coffee morning will be held at the Community Centre on Saturday from 10am until noon. A video will be shown entitled Open Gardens 1994. There is a charge of £3.
QUIZ AND CURRY EVENING – On Saturday at 7.30pm in Madley Church. Come on your own and make up a team or bring a team with you. Maximum six people per team. £5 each to include a delicious curry. PARISH COUNCIL – The last meeting was held on April
CAR BOOT SALE – Lynhales Hall Nursing Home, near Lyonshall, will be holding a car boot sale on its premises on Saturday. Booters arrive from 9am with buyers arriving from 10am. Please ring to book a space 01544 340238. Cars will be charged £5 and vans
BINGO – There will be a bingo session at Evenjobb village hall tomorrow (Friday) starting at 8pm. Proceeds will go to Evancoed church. WHIST DRIVE – At a whist drive held recently at Llanbister community hall, results were: Ladies 1st Shirley Hammond
BADMINTON CLUB – The club held an Easter badminton competition for its younger members. Justin Sharp won the competition and Rosie Emerson was second. Other finalists were Josh and Shane Blythe, Payton Banks and Ollie Hoare. The winner, runner-up
ZUMBA FITNESS – Luctonians RC Kingsland, Mondays 6-7pm, pay as you go sessions. Call Mandy on 01544 387958 or email mandys.mail@virgin.net.
I AM writing to add my voice to the criticism of Herefordshire Council’s recent and future plans concerning the future of the city. I realise that the council finds itself bound into the cash drain that is the Edgar Street Grid, which I think will
CHARITY DONATION – Artie and Pat Attwood would like to thank everyone who attended their golden wedding anniversary party. £280 was donated for Parkinsons UK and Kidney Research UK. PLAYGROUP SHOP – Radnor Valley Playgroup and Parent and Toddler
COFFEE MORNING – Come to a coffee morning and have a chat Thursday, April 25, Hope under Dinmore village hall. 10am – 12 noon, everyone welcome, details contact 01568 614436. VILLAGE TREASURE HUNT – On April 6-7 was great fun. The sun shone, lots
PARISH COUNCIL – The April meeting was held in the memorial hall with Coun R Baker in the chair, also present the clerk, Hereford Coun Graham Powell and seven members of the public. PUBLIC FORUM – Matters raised included: a flooded drain near the
QUIZ – Kingsland WI group are hosting a quiz and ploughmans’ night on May 15 at the Eardisland village hall starting at 7pm. Teams of four – there will be prizes. Tickets cost £5 per person which covers quiz entry fee and a ploughman’s supper plus
CREDENHILL SOCIAL CLUB – Is to host a St George’s night party on Saturday. The real St George’s day is April 23, but unfortunately being midweek, most people will be working so the nearest Saturday was chosen. Knights, damsels, dragons and guests are
PARISH PLAN – In spite of the low spirits induced by our late spring , Clehonger residents have continued to work hard on the parish plan, and are hoping by mid summer to have produced a questionnaire to find out the views of all the village on what
PUDDING EVENING – By popular demand, Meg and Mike Harrold are repeating the pudding evening on Friday at 7pm at their home – Penbre, Castle Frome – the proceeds of which will go to Castle Frome Church. All are welcome. FAMILY SINGERS – The Castle
CORE STRATEGY DROP-IN SESSION – With Cllr Sally Robertson tomorrow, 7pm to 9pm. This is the last chance to find out about the proposed northern expansion of Hereford city and new rural housing policy. Residents from Burghill, Holmer and Lyde
HISTORY EVENING – The next local history evening will be a trip down memory lane when Stella Mitchell from the Land of Lost Content Museum will display and talk about everyday items from the 1930s to 1960s. It’s taking place at the New Bridge community
ST ANDREW’S CHURCHYARD CLEANING – We will be having a churchyard, spring cleaning day on Saturday from 10am onwards. There is plenty to do, including some fairly heavy work moving gravel up to the cremation area, which needs extending and refurbishing
FLICKS IN THE STICKS – Presents Hope Springs (12A) tomorrow (Friday) at the parish hall. Entrance is £4.50 for adults and £2.50 children. Doors open at 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. This is the last film of the season. MARKET – On Saturday Bosbury
MOTORCYCLE ace Chaz Davies has been in the south of France this week reflecting on his ‘dream’ double race triumph. He is sitting proudly in second spot in the World Superbike Championship standings – just 22 points behind leader Sylvain Guintoli
TALK – On Tuesday, 7.30pm at Bodenham Chapel. Venetian Masquerade presented by Diane Pritchard, admission £2.50. Proceeds in aid of Cancer Research, contact Dave Hill on 01568 797531. KNIT-IN – The Bodenham Romania support group will be holding
AUCTION – All Saints Church Bishopswood, is holding an auction on April 27 at Bishopswood village hall. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm, followed by ploughman’s supper. Variety of items for sale including old postcards and watches.
SINGING FOR FUN – Regrettably it has been decided that, due to lack of interest, the singing for fun sessions in the village centre will now cease. Many thanks to those who came regularly.
CHURCH SERVICE – There will be a service at Leinthall Earls on Sunday at 3.30pm. NATURE TRUST – The Aymestrey branch of the Nature Trust will meet on Thursday, April 25 at 7.30pm when Robin Strachen will talk on Animal Tracks. WALKING WEEKEND
FLICKS IN THE STICKS – Presents Skyfall (12A) – the final show of the season – on Thursday, April 25 at 7.30pm in Almeley village hall. Doors open at 7pm, raffle and bar available.
COFFEE AND CAKE – St Andrew’s church, Allensmore, will be open on Saturday for coffee and cake between 10am and 12noon.
DAVID Exall takes charge of Herefordshire CCC for the first time when they line up against Cheshire in a MCCA Knockout Trophy clash at Brockhampton on Sunday. Exall, who has taken over from Brockhampton team-mate Chris Boroughs as skipper of the
A STANDOFF between dog walkers and dairy farmers has ended following a compromise that will allow people to walk freely in the fields bordering Park Street. A post and rail fence will be installed along the northern border of Bartonsham Meadow,
HEREFORD United are still unable to pay their March wage-bill in full even after two home games in the last week. And, with no further matchday income, Hereford’s board of directors will be facing some tough decisions about how they are going to
EVERY week, leading figures from Edgar Street have their say. This week, Martin Watson, the secretary of the Hereford United Vice Presidents Club reveals what is behind the possibility of starting a supporters’ trust. THIS week a group of fans,
POLICE have confirmed that two incidents in Hereford yesterday are linked. Officers were first called to the BP garage in Edgar Street at 1.55pm following reports that a man was in possession of a knife. They were later called to Hereford Railway
TRY-scoring sensation Drew Cheshire ‘is easily capable of playing Premiership rugby’, according to former Wales and Worcester Warriors scrum-half Andy Williams. Williams coaches the 21-year at Luctonians and says players like Cheshire ‘don’t come
Westfields v Tividale, Saturday, April 20 at allpay.park Kick-off 3pm AND Westfields v Stourport Swifts, Tuesday, April 23 at allpay.park Kick-off 7.45pm WESTFIELDS (from): 1. JAMIE MOORE 2. SCOTT JACKSON 3. WILL LOUGHMAN 4. PHIL GLOVER 5. DENE WHITTAL-WILLIAMS
IN a fitting tribute to the great cake-bakers of Hay-on-Wye's WI market stand, a cake cutting ceremony will mark the stall’s 40th anniversary today - as the ladies stay as on-trend as ever. Now trading under the ‘Country Markets’ banner, some of
A KINGTON couple tied the knot in a less than conventional style. Mark Jackson, 58, and Sandra Tremayne were married in Kington on Saturday at the Burton Hotel after first meeting in 2010. But instead of having a traditional white wedding,
FIREFIGHTERS are still at the Rotherwas Industrial Estate where a major fire that started yesterday morning is still burning. Crews are expected to be there all day extinguishing the fire and damping down. Four appliances are currently at the
IT all started for Herefordshire table-tennis legend Mark Owen, aged just 13, when he won ‘Boy of the Week’ at Butlins in 1974. And almost four decades later, the 52-year-old is still producing the goods, after picking up his 23rd Herefordshire
BOOKS will be given away at Hereford Library next week. The free copies will be handed out next Tuesday as part of World Book Night. Quizzes and homemade cakes will also form part of the entertainment with donations going towards Book
TRADITIONAL woodland, craft and blacksmithing demonstrations will take place as part of National Beanpole Week at Moreton Wood in Ullingswick. The event, which takes place on Sunday April 21 from 11am to 4pm, will also offer the chance to meet
Luctonians 12 pts Dudley Kingswinford 14 pts. HEAD coach Andy Williams admitted he was ‘baffled’ why Luctonians were not awarded a penalty in the dying minutes of Saturday’s narrow derby defeat at Mortimer Park. Williams said he wanted an explanation
IN an open letter to our local Herefordshire councillors, on behalf of concerned users of the Ledbury Halo complex, I am looking for the truth within the rumours and speculation currently circulating. As our council representatives at county level
AWARD-winning prog rock band Magenta will be playing at Garway Village Hall on Saturday. Currently working on their eighth studio album and voted best live band by the Classic Rock Society last year, Magenta are the leading lights in the new wave
