Herefordshire | Archive | 2000 | May
n Key to Parties more...
POLITICAL control of Herefordshire Council hangs in the balance, despite a week of hectic behind-the-scenes negotiations between the various factions. more...
Key to Parties: more...
SUN Valley Foods is to cease preparing one of its most popular chicken products at its Hereford headquarters, one of the reasons being because local growers cannot meet the demand for poultry. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE'S planners have designs on a new home of their own. A centralised city-based service is proposed, backed by `surgeries' set up across the county. more...
A GIANT climbing tower designed to develop team-building skills is causing controversy in a Herefordshire village after one irate resident described it as `monstrosity', writes JONATHAN LAND. more...
THE Government has given the go-ahead for Herefordshire Primary Care Group to become a full-blown NHS Trust on Oct 1. more...
ONE of `man's best friends' has had its sight threatened by a blow to the head. more...
THREE days after getting married, a Hereford teacher whisked his wife away on honeymoon - taking 35 rugby players with them! more...
NEW rambling rights could put councils and landowners on the warpath warns The Bishop of Hereford. more...
AN inquest had few answers for the family of a Hereford pensioner found dead far from home. County coroner David Halpern could confirm that the body of Edward Jones was recovered from the River Severn, but he heard no evidence as to how it came to be there. Mr Jones, 70, went missing from his Redhill address on January 26. A five-week search was to end in sadness for his close-knit family. But other than ruling out any suspicious circumstances, investigations outlined little of how or why the much loved great-granddad met his end. On the evidence available, an open verdict was the only option Mr Halpern felt that he could record. more...
LEOMINSTER'S Bridge Street Sports Centre has been set back in its recovery bid by an act of `mindlessness' costing £23,000. more...
KINGTON Baptist Church is celebrating the Millennium with a special exhibition and series of events over the next two weekends. more...
BROMYARD residents have been asked to keep an eye out for two sets of `bogus' con artists. more...
PLANS for a new health care centre in Kington are on view in the town. more...
FIVE teenage girls from Bromyard were given a `punishment to fit the crime' after they were caught daubing an underpass with graffiti. more...
AN heroic dog-owner dived into the swollen River Lugg last weekend to rescue his two pet pooches from drowning. more...
SOME of the hardest working members of the Bromyard community have been recognised in this year's Distinguished Citizen Awards - dubbed as the town's very own `honours list.' more...
THE retirement of MP Richard Livsey at the next general election has brought forward four experienced campaigners to represent the Brecon and Radnorshire Liberal Democrats. more...
CHILDREN from the parishes of Yarpole, Lucton, Bircher and Croft have been invited to a Millennium Picnic at Croft Castle on Saturday . more...
MARIE Curie Care is once again looking for budding F1 drivers mustered into teams of five to take part in a sponsored three-hour karting endurance race at the all-weather track at Kinsham, Presteigne, on June 11. more...
A 97-year-old man was attacked in his bed by a burglar who broke into his sheltered home in Ludlow. more...
WHITEHALL will decide on Herefordshire Council's controversial single taxi licensing zone - an idea that some cabbies say is just not fair. more...
A WELL-known Ross-on-Wye farming family has apologised after their herd of dairy cows ran amok through a council graveyard. more...
THE closure of Hereford's Victoria Eye Hospital will be a sad day for one city woman who has been receiving treatment from the `wonderful staff' for 53 years. more...
THE Welsh Assembly member for Mid and West Wales believes the current system of dealing with asylum-seekers is letting the country down. more...
THE walled garden of a vanished country house is coming back to life after half a century of neglect. more...
TARRINGTON was a hive of activity as people turned out to celebrate the history of the parish and to toast its future. more...
HEREFORD Hospital's fund-raising supremo Jenny Dereham had a call to the Official Receiver's office in Gloucester. more...
HEREFORD, Ross-on-Wye and Leominster Scouts are joining forces to hold a Millennium Camp at Dinedor on the weekend of July 7 to 9. more...
ANGRY environmentalists are complaining of a lack of notice and information given about a second trial of genetically-modified fodder crops to take place in Herefordshire, writes Roy Lewis. more...
THE first Farmers' Market in Hereford is to go-ahead next month, partly in High Town and partly in the city's butter market. more...
CHAROLAIS bulls met a brisk trade from a packed ringside of commercial beef producers at the breed society's inaugural sale at Ross-on-Wye on Thursday last. more...
ALL is set for the county rally held by the Herefordshire Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs on Saturday, May 20. more...
THE deadline by which crops must be sown in England to qualify under the Arable Area Payments Scheme has been extended to May 31. The NFU asked for the extention to help cereal producers hit by wet April weather. more...
A HEREFORD motorist suffered minor injuries in an accident that killed one of his passengers in Worcestershire last weekend. more...
HEREFORD pulled together last Saturday to raise thousands of pounds to fight cancer. more...
THE Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School has received official notification that its bid to become a training school has been successful. more...
THE headmasters' of Hereford's two cathedral schools, Dr Howard Tomlinson and Tim Lowe, are inviting the public to join them on their annual hike on Sunday, May 14. more...
THIS year's blossom was blessed at the `Big Apple' event, bringing together the Marcle Ridge communities. more...
AN £850,000 development to provide supported housing for young people that recently got the go-ahead from city planners has a new face to help it to fruition. more...
BULMERS has apologised to residents for the disturbance caused by the continuing work at the company's original site in Ryelands Street. more...
BEING voted `Hotel of the Month' brought more than prestige for Hereford's Castle House. more...
HEREFORD Hospital's fund-raising supremo Jenny Dereham had a call to the Official Receiver's office in Gloucester. more...
THE South Wye Pilgrims `Millennium Walk 3' takes place on Saturday, May 13. more...
CARING Jessica Bumfrey needs cash to continue creating chances for sick children, writes BILL TANNER. more...
HEREFORD Round Table's Millennium year chairman is Shane Powell who received the jewel of office at the annual dinner at the Graftonbury Hotel, Hereford. more...
WHITEHALL will decide on Here-fordshire Council's controversial single taxi licensing zone, an idea that some cabbies say is just not `fare'. more...
© Newsquest Media Group 2008