KINGTON Horse Show and Agricultural Society must pay £25,000 after a rare court case heard health and safety rules were “significantly” breached when a trader died on site in September 2009. Members admitted failing to ensure the Oval Farm
ON several occasions during my husband's illness in October and November we had cause to ring 999 and on each occasion the ambulance reached our home, four miles from Hereford, within 15 minutes – on one occasion in five minutes. The individual
COFFEE MORNING - The first monthly coffee morning of 2011 is tomorrow (Friday) in the community room, between 10.30am and noon. Entry is free and all villagers are welcome. Meet your neighbours and catch up with news of all the goings on over the
FRIENDSHIP CLUB - The club will meet in the village hall at 10.30am, Tuesday. This will be the club’s AGM and will also include a friendly session of bingo. New members are always welcome.
AUCTION - Do you have unwanted Christmas presents or the results of downsizing or de-cluttering? Woolhope Parish Hall is holding an auction in April to raise much-needed funds. Donations of anything from big toys and bikes, household goods such
ACOUSTIC SINGER-SONGWRITER - Bernadette O’Grady will be performing a selection of original songs and adapted covers with exceptionally fine songwriting, intricate guitar playing and distinctively beautiful vocals at Skenfrith Village Hall on January
LITTLE Johnny England are unique. Five of the most gifted musicians on the folk circuit, they have pooled their collective talents and experience to come up with a rousing ensemble, bringing an energy and dynamic to their live work not often seen – “
A LEDBURY singer-songwriter is releasing her new single No More as a free download this month. Tessa Frith’s single was launched with a party at the Prince of Wales pub in Church Lane. The single is from Tessa’s debut album, Mindscapes, which was released
FOOTBALL CLUB - The 100 Club draw for December took place at the Royal British Legion Club. Anne Traylor drew the following winners: £100 Ivor Meredith, £50 Mary Bowen, £40 Margaret Herrits, £30 Father Gill, £25 Ron Hughes. The committee would
PARISH COUNCILS - Ocle Pychard Group and Much Cowarne Group parish councils will meet in Burley Gate Village Hall at 7.30pm Tuesday. Matters for discussion will include revisiting the Parish Plan in the light of changed housing priorities brought
SINGING - Do you enjoy singing? Then come and join in a local group. You would be most welcome Fridays, 7.30pm to 9.30pm, at Much Birch Community Hall. Reading music is not essential but enthusiasm and a good sense of humour are. The group produces
HEREFORD Concert Society’s next presentation sees the masterful musicians of Zum returning to The Courtyard on January 27. From the diasporan melting pot of cosmopolitan London, the band’s ground-breaking world fusion weaves melodies from around the
A horse trainer tried to destroy the body of her violent lover on a bonfire outside the isolated Herefordshire cottage where they lived, a jury was told today. Kirsti Windsor's volatile romance with David Langdon had ended and she had given
MOTHERS’ UNION - Llanbister Mothers’ Union will hold afternoon tea on Monday in the church hall, Llanbister, from 2pm to 3.30pm. There will also be stalls and competitions. All proceeds will go towards the local Cancer Research branch.
WHIST - Whist drives on Tuesday and on January 25 start in the hall at 7.45pm, with proceeds to hall funds. Everybody is welcome. Call 01981 510228 to check, if weather is severe. FLICKS IN STICKS - In the Escleyside Hall on Wednesday, see The Time
YOUNGSTERS from a school near Ross-on-Wye that was severely affected by flooding from burst pipes resumed lessons this week after a local charity came to their rescue. Weston-under-Penyard CE Primary School has been offered the use of rooms by
FLICKS IN THE STICKS - The film Gone To Earth (certificate PG) starring Jennifer Jones and David Farrar will be shown at Lingen Village Hall tomorrow (Friday) at 7.30pm. This 1950 film is based on a novel by Shropshire novelist Mary Webb and was
CONCERT - On January 23, Knighton and District Concert Society presents renowned early music group Vox Praeterita in Musicke of Sundrie Kindes at St Edward’s Church Hall at 3pm. Admission is £8 on the door, students and children free. Telephone
MEETING - Kington Horticultural Society meets next Thursday, January 20, at 7.30pm at the Masonic Hall by the Texaco garage for a talk on The History of the Apple, its pollination and general husbandry. BELLY DANCING - Ladies, get in shape and
ARGENTINA’S Otros Aires are playing just six gigs on their January tour of the UK, and Presteigne Assembly Rooms is delighted to be one of the half-dozen venues this weekend. A potent cocktail of sexy tango music with a unique and contemporary twist,
DINMORE HILLBILLIES - The line dancing group is holding a dance on Friday, January 21, in Hope-under- Dinmore Village Hall ,where parking is free. Everyone is welcome to join in or just watch. Entry is £4 and it begins at 7.30pm.There will also
THE Floor at St Michael’s Village Hall, near Tenbury, celebrates the start of its 10th year tomorrow, Friday. It begins with a rare combined performance by the outstanding singer-songwriter Phil Bates, formerly with the Electric Light Orchestra, Les
AT the end of last year, local amateur poet Joyce Clare visited Hereford College of Arts to thank students who had provided the illustrations for her recently published collection of poems, Poems that Granny Wrote. Joyce had invited students
U3A - The next meeting of U3A Hay will be held at Summerhill Golf Club on Tuesday at 10.30am when the guest speaker will be Sue Harries, who has rubbed shoulders for most of her life with many famous literary figures. Appropriately, her talk will
JAZZ EVENING - Garway Live hosts an evening of jazz on Saturday with The Cathy Jones Trio - Bossanova with a Portuguese vocal. It starts at 7.30pm at Garway Village Hall. Enjoy classics from Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto, street sambas and music from
FARMERS’ MARKET - A market will be held tomorrow (Friday) at Fownhope Village Hall from 3pm to 5pm with local produce and crafts including Feathered Friends bird food.
“NOTHING ever did go wrong for him,” says the Purveyor of Seals and Ordnances about Sir Edward Feathers – the Old Filth of the title of this month’s Hereford Times Book Group selection. “Nothing much ever happened to him,” replies the Queen
PARISH COUNCIL - The December meeting was held in the memorial hall with Councillor R Baker in the chair. Buses: The clerk has written to Herefordshire Council raising problems related to the recently amended bus service. Social housing
POPPY APPEAL - Derek Terry, the local organiser for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, has announced that £2,189 was raised for the fund. He wishes to thank everyone who in any way helped to raise this magnificent sum. CHILDREN’S SOCIETY -
ZUMBA FITNESS - Get fit while having fun with Zumba fitness for any age, any fitness level. Eardisland Village Hall, Mondays 10am-11am, Wednesdays 6.30pm-7.30pm. Telephone Mandy on 01544 387958 for more details. BURNS NIGHT - For the Burns Night
THIS year’s Holiday on Ice production Energia, which comes to Cardiff International Arena from February 8 to 13, promises to be more extravagant, more exhilarating and more spectacular than anything ever before staged on ice. More than 400,000 people
TALK AND SUPPER - Penny Platts is presenting an illustrated talk, USA Coast to Coast, which will take you on a journey by railway across America at Dorstone Village Hall tomorrow (Friday), 7pm. Bar available. Tickets, £8 including an American supper
FLICKS IN THE STICKS - The spring movie season begins with Sherlock Holmes (certificate U) starring Robert Downey Jnr and Jude Law on January 21, at 7.30pm in the Cedar Hall.
SIMPSON HALL - Today (Thursday), Burghill Bridge Club holds its Christmas party at 6.45pm. On Sunday, Pathfinders meet at 6pm. On Tuesday the WI meets at 7.30pm for the Jenny Pipes Morris. On Wednesday, Burghill CAP meets at 9am for the first session
BONUS BALL - January 1’s winner of £25 was Pat Burrows with number 26. The January 8 winner of £25 was Malcolm Walker with number 46.
ROUND off your festive celebrations at Goodrich Village Hall tonight (Thursday) and at Lady Hawkins Community Leisure Centre in Kington tomorrow (Friday) when Strangeface Theatre Company presents Charles Dickens’s classic tale, A Christmas Carol. This
100 CLUB DRAW - Friends of St Andrew’s 100 Club January draw winners: First Ivy and Andrew Jones, second Brenda Matthews, third Betty Tauber. The must-be-present-to-win prize: Nigel Sellars. Winning numbers and photos can be viewed at bredwardine-brobury.org.uk
WI - Bosbury WI meets at 7.30pm tonight (Thursday) in Bosbury Parish Hall. Guest speakers Rachel Huntley and Laura Hone will talk about the work of the charity Growing Point – Gardening that is Good for You. Visitors are welcome.
COFFEE - The January coffee morning when parishioners are invited to meet the rector is today (Thursday) from 10am to noon in Aymestrey Village Hall. Coffee mornings will be held on the second Thursday each month and all are welcome. QUIZ
FLICKS IN THE STICKS - Returns to the parish hall at 7.30pm tomorrow (Friday) with a showing of the re-make of Brideshead Revisited (12A). Doors open at 7pm, admission £4. TRAVELS WITH A CAMERA - On Wednesday at 7.30pm in Bodenham Chapel. Admission
COUNCIL - The next meeting of the group parish council is tonight (Thursday) at 7.30pm held in Stauntonon- Wye Village Hall. Residents with an issue for discussion may attend as a 10-minute slot is allocated for this purpose. Item 11 on
POLICE are investigating a car fire that happened in Leominster this morning. Firefighters alerted officers after being called to Lower Bridge Street shortly before 1.45am. Anyone with information can call Leominster Police Station on 3000 333 3000.
PEOPLE in Herefordshire who use oil to heat their properties are being urged to be extra vigilant following a theft in the county. Hundreds of litres of heating fuel was stolen from a farm in St Weonards on Tuesday. “While this is not a large problem
MIDFIELDER Kenny Lunt was eagerly anticipating a return to an old stamping ground after the Bulls reached the FA Cup fourth round for only the eighth time. But the former Sheffield Wednesday man admitted that his return to Hillsborough was
CHURCH - The family service at St Mary's on January 23 will take place at 4pm and not at 11am as advertised in Offa Tree News. Everyone is welcome to attend this service. The charity shop run by the church council in Kington in November raised
WASSAILING - On Monday at 7pm there will be wassailing of the cider apple trees at Petite Maison, home of Derek and Veronica Cooke. Everyone is invited to join the Allensmore Morris Men in this ancient tradition on the Old Twelfth Night, when there
FOUR years on from their production of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Playhouse Company is back on stage with a new exciting adventure written once again by Richard Brookman and adapted, with sincere apologies, from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THE ever-popular Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat makes a return to Malvern Theatres this month. Keith Jack, the runner-up behind Lee Mead in hit BBC series Any Dream Will Do, takes on the title role from January 25-30 and a score full of
WHEN 4Play Theatre company issued an invitation to actors to join them in their latest production, Wiping My Mother’s A**e, they were delighted to receive a call from Meriel Brooke, a veteran of stage and screen, whose interest was piqued by 4Play
A HEREFORDSHIRE company helped things go with a bang at the world fireworks championships. Dragonfire, based at Stoke Lacy, near Bromyard, were assigned the task of providing technical support to six of the leading pyrotechnic production companies in
AS much of England marked a famous Ashes triumph, one cricket fan who lives near Tenbury had more reason than most to celebrate. In the dark days of English cricket before 2005 when the team registered its first Ashes win after nearly a decade
A GREEN Landrover that was “almost like a member of the family” was taken from Knighton over the weekend, causing its owner great distress. The 15-year-old Defender disappeared last Sunday from Bowling Green Lane car park after two men with
YOUR recent picture of actress Pat Phoenix on the roof of Sunbeam Corner was sent to me by my sister who lives in Kington. It really brought back fond memories. I was a TV engineer working for the Wallis family business at that time. The occasion
SUPPORTED by the county’s youth opportunity grant scheme and sponsorship from ACT through the local representative Stewart Anthony, members of Kington Youth Club, in conjunction with Lady Hawkins’ School, gained significant success at recent agricultural
EPIPHANY-Ten year old pupil, Emma Brown, wrote to The Bishop of Hereford, The Rt. Revd. Anthony Priddis before Christmas, inviting him to visit Dilwyn School. The school had planned to celebrate Epiphany on January 6th with an enactment, in St.
