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  • So much change... and not all for the better

    Perhaps the world has become increasingly disconnected and dysfunctional from the time I entered social housing in Inner London in 1984, through my moving to privately rented accommodation in Belmont, Hereford, in 2017, and beyond? This applies

  • Tributes to stalwart of the Malvern Hills

    TRIBUTES have been paid to a community stalwart who has died aged 86. Ray Roberts was an active member of the Malvern community in which he lived. Mr Roberts has served as chairman of the Malvern Hills Conservators (now the Malvern Hills Trust

  • NHS in Herefordshire spending more on diabetes medication

    The NHS in Herefordshire is spending more on diabetes drugs per patient than it did five years ago, new figures reveal. The charity Diabetes UK says the disease is “one of our biggest health crises”, and the health service allocated more than £1

  • You lose 40 minutes and want to cover countryside with Tarmac

    No, Phil Collins (Letters, January 2), the answer to the loss of your precious 40 minutes is not to cover more swathes of Herefordshire’s most beautiful countryside and prime agricultural land with Tarmac. We are living in a different world of

  • Why Herefordshire's little buses didn't work

    NORTH Herefordshire MP Bill Wiggin's call for thinner buses on country lanes may not have been as revolutionary as some might have thought. It turns out that the idea – or something very similar – has been tried before. Gareth Davies, in a

  • What is Blue Monday (and does it really exist)?

    If you believe in it, Blue Monday is just the other side of the weekend and for many can be the most depressing day of the new year so far - or so the theory goes. The weather, bills and demise of new year resolutions all contribute towards this