Herefordshire | Archive | 2001 | April
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HEREFORDSHIRE is ready to welcome you for a fun-filled Easter, writes CATHERINE SHOVLIN. more...
ON Sunday, April 15 the Chase Hotel, Ross-on-Wye is the venue for the annual Easter Craft Fair. Craftsmen and women from all over the region will be exhibiting their handcrafted goods. more...
THERE is a diverse selection of visual art currently on show at The Courtyard guaranteed to catch the eye and fuel the imagination. more...
WITH prices that have been pruned back to their roots, and a list of 23 separate gardens and nurseries to visit, tourism officers in the county are hoping that their latest Glorious Gardens leaflet will tempt visitors back into the gardens of Herefordshire. more...
IF YOU are setting out to be a right bastard, you probably wouldn't want your nearest and dearest around. more...
HEREFORD'S ABC Cinema will showing the acclaimed `Chocolat', with Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench for seven days from Friday. `Rugrats in Paris', which is being shown at matinee time is bound to delight younger cinema-goers. more...
THE tale of a cockney flower girl rising through the ranks to the upper classes of Edwardian society will be retold in Ledbury by youngsters who have already proved to be far from amateur. more...
THE Lion Ballroom in Leominster continues to attract top class artists for the coming season of The Leominster Concert Series. more...
MORE than 13 people were left homeless in Kington on Tuesday when the biggest fire in living memory engulfed flats and spread to a nearby bank. more...
DILWYN'S Dave Potts and his wife Anne Hardy shared a dream- to travel across America `easy rider' style - on a Harley-Davison motor cycle. more...
LEOMINSTER twinners scoured the country looking for a special tree to present to their twin town in the Alsace region of France. more...
A LEOMINSTER Junior School pupil is celebrating after her poster design was chosen to promote the reopening of the refurbished household waste site in the town. more...
A NEW rail freight depot, the extraction of around one million tons of gravel and the development of a mixed business park are being planned for the former Army base at Moreton- on - Lugg. more...
PEOPLE of Kington are being asked to rummage through their attics and flick through their photo albums for old pictures and memorabilia. more...
KNIGHTON Town Silver Band has been given a Lottery grant by the Arts Council of Wales to buy a new complete set of band instruments. more...
LEOMINSTER School nursery nurse, Naomi Harris has finally completed her sponsored parachute jump. more...
A CASHIER at a service station was terrified when a customer grabbed her to get his credit card back. more...
PARKING is still causing a headache in Leominster. more...
A POLICE investigation has been launched into allegations of fraudulent claims for compensation in relation to the foot and mouth crisis. more...
TWO Herefordshire theatre companies have taken centre stage in the latest round of funding from the Regional Arts Lottery Programme. more...
NEW childcare places in some of the county's most disadvantaged areas are set to boost work opportunities for single parents and people on low incomes. more...
FORMER US president Bill Clinton is coming to Hay Festival to deliver a UN lecture on racism and conflict. more...
WITH a background in accountancy Chris Smith knows when numbers won't add up. more...
ANOTHER major `housewarming' gift has been earmarked for Hereford's new hospital. more...
HEREFORD'S biking bishop will be launching the county's advanced rider-training scheme (He.A.R.T.S.) on April 22. more...
AN SAS hero killed in a daring raid in Sierra Leone has been snubbed in the list of medals awarded for the operation. more...
WILL Hereford ever warm to a permanent ice rink? Pupils at the Aconbury Centre school, Ross Road, think it's a `really cool' idea. more...
THE embracing of new technology by rural communities will be reflected in the 2001 Herefordshire Village of the Year competition. more...
A MAJOR expansion plan for Tesco's super store at Belmont has alarmed local residents. more...
A HEREFORD woman is undergoing HIV and hepatitis B tests after stepping on a heroin user's needle. more...
A GANG of four escaped with bags of cash after a daylight raid on a building society. more...
A HEREFORD family was all-set for extra-special Easter break - until thieves struck. more...
A HEREFORD father with just three years left to live has been offered a life saving heart transplant in America. more...
PROGRESSIVE plans have been unveiled for essential repairs and new building work at Hereford's historic Waterworks Museum. more...
BRONCO Lane will satisfy his latest taste for adventure by going round in circles to raise funds for a local youth charity. more...
A TRENDY new drink with a powerful `Sidekick' is the latest Bulmers tipple to take the country by storm. more...
LOCAL youngsters took the first step from bedroom DJ to superclub stardom on Monday April 9 at Club Eros in Hereford. more...
A SPEED gun challenge has been laid down to launch the Hereford Volunteer Centre, South Wye Community Development Team (SWCDT). more...
HEREFORD'S bid for Britain in Bloom glory was launched in a blaze of colour in High Town last week. more...
A HEREFORDSHIRE school's sheep are headed for `pastures new'. The 40-strong flock kept at Kingstone High is on the move to spare it from foot and mouth. more...
The Bromyard in Bloom committee has elected its first chairman and is drawing up an action plan to make the town a serious rival to Ledbury in next year's Britain in Bloom competition. more...
A DISGRACED managing director from Hereford slashed his wrists and drove his car off a cliff after carrying out sex attacks on two young girls, Worcester Crown Court heard this week. more...
Plans to sell off Bromyard's old public hall site and clear a £20,000 debt have hit another snag, this time caused by the foot and mouth crisis. more...
GAMBLING, buying alcohol or visiting a massage parlour are legal on Easter Sunday so a local businessman wants to know why the law stops him selling plants. more...
West Mercia Constabulary has launched an investigation following allegations of illegal movement of livestock and fraudulent claims for compensation in relation to the foot and mouth crisis. more...
A LEARNING experience of a lifetime was promised to students who recently visited Borneo. But it was not only them that developed - their leader in the jungle also learned a lot. more...
HOPES that walkers could return to the Malvern Hills for Easter and provide a boost for the district's hard-hit tourist industry have been dashed. more...
A SPECIAL window has become a focal point for a Herefordshire village. more...
READERS of the Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter can now provide direct help for local farmers struggling to maintain their livelihoods in the face of foot and mouth. more...
A SUMMER Sunday bus service, designed to take people through the Wye Valley, is to return for the 2001 season at Easter despite the foot and mouth epidemic. more...
SEVERE precautionary steps to wipe out foot and mouth are hitting livestock owners in the area large and small, from one farm with 4,600 sheep to a home with just two goats. more...
AMAZEMENT has been expressed by a Conservative that the Lib-Dem defence spokesman told a county conference he would consider making cuts to the Army. more...
THE Youth Hostels Association is calling for a speedy opening of the countryside for public recreation. more...
THE Minister for Transport, John Prescott is to be told about traffic problems in Westfaling Street, Hereford. more...
Ticket sales are picking up for the Spring Gardening Show in Malvern. more...
A DRUG addict who held up a Hereford building society with a plastic coat hanger disguised as a gun has been jailed for six years. more...
A LONGDON woman is launching a petition calling for an end to the culling of healthy animals and the use of vaccination. more...
Businesses suffering losses from the foot and mouth outbreak in Malvern will be able to claim up to 100 per cent rate relief. more...
THE taxman is to help businesses financially affected by foot and mouth. more...
A SURVEY of more than 200 West Midlands firms by the Country Land and Business Association has revealed that rural businesses need a lot more help. more...
ONE of the district's top tourist attractions is preparing to show there is still life in the countryside when it opens on Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday from 11am to 5pm. more...
THE Malvern-based National Sheep Association says slaughter to control foot and mouth is creating more problems than the disease. more...
ONE of the founder members of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust has applauded a call to preserve rare breeds from being wiped out by foot and mouth. more...
Herefordshire Villages are being encouraged to show off their information technology (IT) skills in the 2001 Village of the Year competition. more...
CYCLISTS and slower moving vehicles have been given a longer clearance time at Top Cross traffic lights, after a cyclist narrowly avoided a collision there. more...
The Poppy Appeal organiser for Ledbury, Lloyd Meredith, has condemned the theft of a charity box as "despicable". more...
Ledbury could follow in the footsteps of Oberammagau thanks to the success of its own Passion Play, And Now the Good News. more...
THE mayor and mayoress of Ledbury have cancelled a performance of Old MacDonald Had A Farm out of sympathy for the community hit by the foot and mouth crisis. more...
A rare delicacy from the salad days of ancient Egypt is being grown and marketed at Munsley Court Farm. more...
New Mills residents say their estate could be ruined if developers get the go-ahead for a complex of shops, flats and houses on land they view as the "green lung" of the estate. more...
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