THE number of people claiming out-of-work benefits has increased significantly compared to this time last year. But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said this is due to the full introduction of Universal Credit. The claimant figure
CROOKS operating in rural areas across Herefordshire have been targeted in a three-day crackdown by West Mercia Police. Over the past three nights police from across the force have been out on patrol in some of the most rural areas of the county
HOSPITAL car parks across Herefordshire will be offering free parking to patients and visitors on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. At Hereford County Hospital, the car park barriers will be raised for the two days, and the pay machines will be temporarily
THE Hereford Times office will be closed for a number of days over the Christmas and New Year period. Our Holmer Road headquarters will be shut on December 25 and 26, and on January 1. Meanwhile, reception will also be closed on December 24,
TWO children are trying to raise money to help homeless people keep warm over Christmas. Cherri-mai Sparrow, aged eight, and Tyler Walker, aged six, came up with the idea to raise £300 to buy sleeping bags for homeless men and women in Hereford.
VILLAGERS in Staunton-on-Wye joined together to collect items for the Hereford Food Bank. They collected items of food intended for the charity's Christmas hampers and delivered them to the food bank in Aubrey Street last week. With Christmas
A LOVE of gin provided the spark for the project that two lifelong friends had been seeking. Charles Turner and Richard Williams, had, for some time, been seeking a joint venture and the two set out to create a truly authentic gin using traditional
MANY people have already put their Christmas decorations up – and we are on the hunt to find the best ones in the county. People living in this house in Kingsland have certainly made an effort and many drivers have stopped to take pictures of the
In the light of ever-increasing financial inequality, loss of bio-diversity through corporate habitat destruction and above all, the overwhelming threat of climate change destroying our planet, we should be concentrating our time and energy on working
HEREFORDSHIRE is included in a Met Office yellow warning of snow and ice for tomorrow. The Met Office issued the warning for between 9am tomorrow and 9am on Sunday. They said there will be periods of freezing rain leading to some dangerous
TWO brothers from Herefordshire came out on top in their classes in the Welsh national cyclo-cross championship hosted by Abergavenny Road Club William and Emyr Truelove from Dilwyn competed in the Junior men (U18) and Youth boys (U14) categories
A MUM fears for her daughter’s wellbeing and education after claiming her school has done little to address bullying. Leah Grinnell-Cousins said her 15-year-old daughter, who is in year 11, has been bullied for just over a year by other pupils at
VILLAGERS in Wellington have staged their first ever Christmas Tree Festival. Many clubs and organisations in the village responded to the invitation to take part and used their vivid imaginations to illustrate their activities or passions and to
Patients have missed 841 appointments in the last four months at the Taurus extended hours GP services in Ross, Hereford and Leominster. This amounts to 168 hours of wasted appointments from August to November. In November alone 12.6%
WHITNEY Court, Whitney-on-Wye hosted its third Annual Charity Christmas Shopping event on November 17 by kind permission of owners Augustine and Maureen Hope. Ali Baker, events manager at the court was blessed to be supported by over 350 shoppers
THERE'S a free session next month for those interested in learning how to investigate the fascinating stories told by our burial grounds The Beautiful Burial Ground project is running the event with Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre on Monday
Following Mr Wiggin's exposition last week I would like to point out that the pound is in free fall (down 1.4 % against the US $, as of writing) shares are falling, our country's government is behaving like a third rate South American "banana republic
A MEMBER of the royal family joined in with a carol service at Hereford Cathedral. Princess Anne was a special guest at the Townswomen’s Guilds Carol Service last Wednesday. The Princess Royal, in her role as the organisation's patron, joined
A FORMER combat medic launched a one-man protest against Universal Credit outside the Leominster Job Centre. Dressed in his uniform and surrounded by his week’s worth of food from the Leominster Community Larder, 45-year-old Daniel Johnson made
A RED telephone box in a rural village now houses a life-saving piece of equipment. The phone box in St Weonards, south of Hereford, was used only five times last year. So when BT offered to sell it to the village parish council for £1, plus
