Herefordshire | Archive | 2001 | July
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FRESH young talent at the Rural Media Company was unveiled at a screening of four dramatic new films at The Courtyard, writes ANITA HOWELLS. more...
EASTNOR Castle, near Ledbury has launched a new event, a selling exhibition of contemporary sculpture taking place every day until July 29 (except on Saturdays). more...
FOLLOWING the launch of the Ross International Festival programme, box office staff were faced by queues of people waiting to buy tickets for favourite artistes such as Feeder, Billie Jo Spears, Van Morrison, Lulu, Atomic Kitten and Vanessa Mae. more...
THEY call him `The Flying Dragon' and he's caused quite a flap at The Courtyard, writes BILL TANNER. more...
HEREFORD'S ABC Cinema will be continuing to show the latest animated feature from Dreamworks, `Shrek' starring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz for seven days from Friday. Great fun for all the family and a likely contender at next year's Oscars. more...
A NEWLY-FORMED jazz band is looking for a few extra members. more...
THE terraces and rose garden of historic Treago at St Weonards, will be the perfect setting on July 14, for The Garden Opera Company's new production of Mozart's comedy, `The Magic Flute'. more...
THE vacancy created at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, by the appointment of Geraint Bowen to be organist at Hereford Cathedral in succession to Dr Roy Massey, has been filled by a former chorister of Hereford Cathedral. more...
THE Saturday Café, a popular series of lunchtime music sessions at the Courtyard in Hereford, is set to carry on into July. The Music Pool, the county's community music organisation, is promoting the informal sessions, which feature some of the best musical talent in the area. more...
THE `Fire Choir', Hereford's huge community choir will be appearing at the Shirehall on Wednesday, July 11 at 7.30pm, singing alongside young singers from Aylestone School, with a range of South African, eastern European, American Shape-Note songs as well as original arrangements of more familiar songs. more...
THE global rhythms of samba, mambo, jazz and rhythm'n'blues return to Hereford's Courtyard on Thursday, July 12, in the form of The Brasshoppers, featuring the hottest horns and the funkiest tuba you could ever hope to hear. more...
STRAW prices are meeting a very firm trade as many farmers, desperate to replenish their stocks, bid against each other at the local auctions which began in Herefordshire this week. more...
THE first animal collection centre in the West Midlands has opened at Ross-on-Wye Market since the foot-and-mouth crisis shut livestock markets throughout Britain. more...
MOBILE phones could prove to be a farmer's most profitable asset. more...
WHILE the farming industry sinks deeper into the doldrums, one Herefordshire farmers' co-operative is increasingly in demand and expects to more than double its turnover this year to over £5 million. more...
VETERINARY surgeons are blood testing sheep for foot and mouth on the Brecon Beacons following more confirmed cases at Libanus, near Brecon, which is raising concern that the disease may have spread to the hills. more...
THE current lack of farmland coming onto the market in Herefordshire is maintaining values at a level experienced in less traumatic farming times, says Mark Boyle of valuers Carver Knowles. more...
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