A NATIVE of Hereford and founder member of the Inner Wheel Club of Hereford Wye Valley - formed in 1983 - Diane Jones has been named president for the coming year.

She is the widow of Allan Jones, who ran a successful timber company in Hereford. She has three daughters and three granddaughters.

She says she has planned a busy and exciting calendar of events and her main charity for the year is to be the Spencer Bourn Herefordshire Leukaemia Foundation.