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  • CANON PYON

    The annual fete was held at The Great House on Saturday 10th July by kind invitation of Andrew Bengough. Two hundred people attended and the many varied stalls were well patronized. Lady Bengough gave a prize for the craziest hat. The money from the

  • DILWYN

    OPEN AIR CHURCH SERVICE- This popular annual event, held on the Village Green, will follow the pattern of an All-Ages Together service and is eminently suitable and enjoyable for everybody, but particularly for families, even if not regular churchgoers

  • Council to close village school

    Herefordshire Council’s Cabinet has this afternoon agreed to start the statutory process to close Dilwyn Church of England Primary School. For the full story, see this week's Hereford Times.

  • Elderly woman seriously injured following crash

    AN elderly woman sustained serious injuries following a two car crash near Ross-on-Wye this morning. Emergency services were called to the B4221 at Gorsley just after 10.10am. The woman had serious leg injuries and suspected pelvic injuries

  • Car and bike in collision - boy taken to hospital

    A BOY was injured following an accident involving a car and a bike in Ross-on-Wye on Saturday. Emergency services were called to Walford Road at around 1.05pm. The child, believed to be aged 10, was taken to Hereford County Hospital with leg injuries

  • Fire at Leominster day centre

    FIREFIGHTERS tackled a fire at Marshfield Day Centre in Leominster on Saturday. Two crews were called to the Ryelands Road site just after 3.10am. Some paper was alight, but only a small amount of smoke damage was reported.

  • Walk to raise money for Victoria Eye unit

    NURSES and patients linked up with four consultants from Hereford County Hospital on the Wye Valley Walk to raise money to help beat blindness. They want to make £100,000 to buy equipment for the Victoria Eye unit at the hospital to buy updated

  • Bevis is bound for Croatia

    HEREFORDSHIRE’S James Bevis has shot his way to the World Championships in Croatia later this month. Bevis was outstanding at the National Championships in Aylesbury. The marksman won the standing section in the three-day event, bringing home two golds

  • Hay-on-Wye workshop for film-makers

    BUDDING film-makers could get work showcased at the 2012 Olympics via a special workshop in Hay-on- Wye. Youngsters are being encouraged to create their own short film summing up the values of the event for the countrywide Film Nation: Shorts

  • Lift planned for Leominster station

    PLANS have been submitted for a lift to aid disabled passengers at Leominster railway station. The move was backed by the town’s MP Bill Wiggin who said the lift is needed to help those with limited mobility along with passengers with heavy luggage

  • Bromyard Town Council welcome cycleway plan

    PLANS to route a national cycleway through the north of the county are being backed by councillors. Bromyard Town Council has welcomed a plan to convert a disused railway from Worcester to Wales into a cycle route. Most of the route would follow

  • Final council vote set to seal fate of Dilwyn Primary School

    THE fight to save the county’s smallest school goes to the wire next week with only a council cabinet vote effectively able to keep Dilwyn Primary open. But a last gasp reprieve is unlikely with the cabinet being told that there is no “sustainable

  • TV star helps Herefordshire Country Fair's charity drive

    RICHARD Hammond will be making the short journey up the A49 as the new president of this year’s Herefordshire Country Fair. The diminutive TV presenter who lives at Bollitree Castle near Weston-under- Penyard, has been a fan of the show and

  • Renowned artist’s show comes to new Leominster Gallery

    AN exhibition of work by renowned artist Cecily Sash can be seen at new Leominster Gallery, Art on the Square, until Saturday, July 24. For 20 years, until 1974 when she moved to England, Cecily was a lecturer in Design in the Fine Arts department

  • Indian Premier League star piles on anguish for Colwall

    A CRICKETER who has performed on India’s leading stage heaped anguish on struggling Colwall in Division 1 of the Worcestershire County League. Gagandeep Singh, who played in the Indian Premier League in 2008, fired third-placed Redditch to