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  • Valiant Williams beaten in BDO World Championships final

    JIM Williams put in a valiant performance but fell to a 7-4 defeat in the British Darts Organisation World Championships final. Following his semi-final victory yesterday Williams flew out of the traps and clinched the opening two sets, in the

  • Too many people, breathing out too much carbon dioxide

    MANY letters are published seeking to warn us we are contributing towards the extinction of the planet. Eat vegetables and use electric vehicles, they say, or we are doomed because livestock and vehicles emit high levels of carbon dioxide.

  • New Hereford Cattle Society president raring to go

    AFTER an active year as vice-president, Mark Roberts has been elected as president of the Hereford Cattle Society. Running a mixed farming business, Mr Roberts has lived at Bromley Court, Hoarwithy after returning studying for a degree, and he now

  • Wood woodpecker is no substitute for the real thing

    HOW wonderful to see a magnificent woodpecker on our local Hay-on-Wye river walk. But how ironic that it required felling a tree that was a potential home and food resource for a real woodpecker to replace it with a carving of a woodpecker!

  • 'Unsafe structure' closes north Herefordshire road

    UPDATE 4.30PM: A Herefordshire Council spokesperson has confirmed the road has now been reopened. CONCERNS for safety closed a north Herefordshire road this afternoon (Sunday). A Herefordshire Council spokesperson said the C1126 has been closed

  • Traffic delays after A49 crash

    A CRASH is causing delays on a main Herefordshire route this afternoon. Queues have built up on the A49 at Woofferton, on the Herefordshire and Shropshire border, where the crash has partially blocked the road. Emergency services are on scene

  • My idea for breakdowns on the A49 in Hereford

    A READER recently calls for a new city bridge crossing, because it just takes a vehicle breakdown to cause a standstill. You may get the same problem on a new bridge. A simple solution is new breakdown signage along our city corridor of the

  • Only public toilets in town closed as vandals strike

    THE only public toilets left in a county town have been closed temporarily as vandals struck. Bromyard and Winslow Town Council was forced to close the loos in the Tenbury Road car park after the electronic components that control the door locks

  • Firefighters called to north Herefordshire crash

    EMERGENCY services were called to a two-car crash on the north Herefordshire border last night (Saturday). A fire service spokesperson said crews from Leominster and Tenbury fire stations were sent to the scene of the crash on the A465 at Little