LEDBURY Rugby Club have received national recognition after their junior and mini section has been announced as a finalist in the prestigious Crabbie’s National Rugby Awards. The awards give the opportunity for clubs at all levels to enter and gain
THE Hereford Snooker League will be holding their Annual General Meeting at The Military Club on Tuesday, August 21, at 7.30pm. This is when team entries will be taken for the forthcoming season. All league players are welcome to attend. If anyone
ALMOST 400 people have signed a petition opposing plans for 91 acres of county fields to be covered with polytunnels. Applicant George Leeds wants to install 11 blocks of polytunnels for strawberry table top production on land at Lodge Farm and Highway
THE owner of a flock of sheep that had mysteriously appeared in a field in Eardisland has been found. Police from Kington initially put an appeal on their Twitter page to find the owner. But thankfully the owner of approximately 100 sheep was
By Clare Stevens Olivier Latry, organist ‘titulaire’ of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, opened his celebrity recital at the Three Choirs Festival with a magisterial performance of J S Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E flat BWV 552, asserting his command
TWO men have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Robert Eacock. Anthony Boyd, 23, of Circuit Close, Willenhall and Artaf Hussain, 33, of Slater Street, Tipton both received sentences of life imprisonment, with a minimum of 25 years
CRICKET BIRMINGHAM & DISTRICT PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Barnards Green 237 beat Brockhampton 136 (Jamie McIlroy 31; Adam Hewlett 5-73) 2ND XI PREMIER DIVISION Brockhampton 201-3 beat Walmley 198-8 WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY LEAGUE
VICTORY from the last ball saw Bromyard revive their top two hopes with an exhilarating victory over Belbroughton. All-rounder Zahid Saeed was once again the star man for the Flaggoners Green side hitting an unbeaten 92 runs. Opener Nick Leighton
By Peter Fletcher A choral singer, a band singer, and a theatre singer; an unlikely formula, but add a piano, a flute and some clever arrangements and the chemistry turns to alchemy. The singers were Tim Brown, Alison Allan and Steve Allan respectively
by Peter Fletcher Under the magical baton of Elim Chan, we were served with a feast of British composition from the magnificent Philharmonia Orchestra -with the audience, as much as the orchestra falling under the spell of her mesmerising control
STAFF at a Bromyard opticians celebrated 80 years of the store's history. Scrivens Opticians and Hearing Care was established in 1938 and now has 182 stores in England and Wales, including on Broad Street in Bromyard. Hannah New, manager of
HEREFORD MP Jesse Norman says he’s delighted that a charity football organisation has ‘ambitious plans’ for their ground. United in the Community (UITC) aims to promote and engage people in sport and hope their facility at Victoria Park becomes
THERE was a record attendance at the Ross-on-Wye Carnival on Saturday. There were 30 different entrants in the parade which started from the Ashburton Estate and finished at the Ropewalk down by the River Wye. Andrew Buffrey, carnival chairman,
FATHER and son duo Duncan and James Platford struck an unbeaten partnership of 222 as Luctonians kept their grip of the GB Liners Marches League Division One title. After electing to bat lowly Cleobury Mortimer put on 206-6 before Matt Bengry took
THE OWNER of a popular city centre cupcake café has decided to sell the business after three years of bringing cake creations to Hereford. Valencia Simpson, owner of the Kup-Cake Kitchen Café, set up the business three years ago on Union Street
By Clare Stevens Some of the best professional chamber choirs in the world visit the Three Choirs Festival every year, but it’s worth remembering that we have a very skilled group of professional singers right here on our doorstep. The lay clerks
AN ENVIRONMENTALLY conscious five year old has put pressure on a major company to ditch plastic straws in favour of paper ones. Violet Davies, 5, from Hereford, wrote a letter and sent a picture to her favourite smoothie makers, Happy Monkey Smoothies
FOLLOWING a turbulent summer of money worries Lads Club are looking to build towards a successful West Midlands Premier campaign. The Widemarsh Common side have found some financial support for the short term and got their campaign off to a perfect
A SHOP worker has been jailed for his part in selling thousands of packets of illegal counterfeit cigarettes with potential health risks at two Hereford shops. Hemen Jamal, aged 36, of Long Ley, Wolverhampton, admitted selling the counterfeit cigarettes
A TOUGH run of pre-season games proved key for Pegasus Juniors as they showed their fitness and took an opening day 2-1 victory at Dudley Town. Despite being put on the back-foot for parts of the game the last 10 minutes saw Mick Panniers side push
THE fast action of firefighters stopped a fire spreading to neighbouring fields in Staunton-on-Arrow. Fire crews from Kington and Kingsland were called at 5.40pm on Saturday to a bailer on fire in the village to the west of Leominster. A round
HOLD on to your hat! Dimitar Lazarov's high-speed journey along Church Street, Hereford, may leave you feeling a little breathless. His energetic video shows one of the city's most picturesque thoroughfares in a different light. Do
THREE people were taken to hospital after a two-car crash near Ledbury. Emergency services were called at 12.30pm on Saturday to Dymock Road (B3216). Two ambulances and a paramedic officer attended. One elderly female patient with chest
MEMBERS of the public gave CPR to a woman who suffered injuries in a crash on the border of Herefordshire and Shropshire. The single car crash happened in the early hours of this morning at 12.30am close to the Old Post Office in Bucknell which
An elderly woman was pushed to the floor by an intruder in a robbery at her home. She had answered the door to two men who asked her for money. When she questioned them one entered her home, pushed her to the floor and took her money. The
CONSISTENCY will be the key to winning this this season for Luctonians, says head coach Ryan Watkins, as his side look to bounce back into the Nation League 2 North at the first attempt. Watkins' side were left ruing a mid-season drop in form last
COUNTY councillors are calling for more openness from the group setting up Hereford’s future university after it was revealed they found out about the former chief’s departure through the press. Professor Janusz Kozinski, chief executive of the
