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  • New status boost for county

    New homes and more jobs will be created in the county after it was one of just 45 in the country to be granted New Growth Point status by the Government. New growth point status means the Government will make funding available to support infrastructure

  • Police op drives down LGV crime

    POLICE are driving down LGV crime with a new initiative. The month-long Operation Colossus was introduced to tackle thefts of lorries, with or without their loads and theft of articulated trailers and loads. Officers also investigated curtain slashing

  • Missing man home

    A MISSING man has returned home. Michael Bater, aged 37, of Ross-on-Wye, came back on Thursday October 19. He had been missing since September 30.

  • Thieves set fire to motorbike

    A MOTORBIKE was set alight in a Ledbury car park after being stolen from the town centre. The blue Suzuki 125cc was found at St Katherine's car park on Sunday at 11.23pm. The fire brigade attended but the bike was destroyed. It was stolen from outside

  • Veteran success at Malvern

    THREE veterans of the First World War seeing out their days in a retirement home hardly sound like a recipe for a great night's theatre. And when you find that one's got so much shrapnel in his head he blacks out with increasing regularity, another's

  • 12 in court after animal rights arrests

    TWELVE people appeared at Hereford Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with offences under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. The charges relate to alleged interference with contractual relationships so as to harm an animal research organisation