Herefordshire | Archive | 2002 | March
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Children's Laureate, Anne Fine, launches a unique project today, World Book Day to encourage children across the UK to make their own library and get reading. more...
IT'S ten minutes into the warm-up and most of the eager attendees at the newest Salsa club to arrive in Herefordshire are exuding slightly more than an attractive glow. Venezuelan Thomas Melendez is determined to get surplus layers of clothing peeled off, ready for the real work to begin. more...
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) emigrated to the USA with his family in 1913 from his homeland of Russia. more...
The Spring exhibition currently underway at Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge strikes a mood of optimism with a collection of new work by six artists/makers. more...
SHROPSHIRE based artist, Olga Knight spent many years teaching the `cello before her ambition to paint finally took precedence and she left her teaching career behind in 1987. more...
A NEW exhibition opened at The Courtyard this week, sponsored by exposure, the Hereford Photography Festival. more...
FILM makes a welcome return to The Courtyard's programme this week and if it's award-winning, critically-acclaimed movies you're after, then the Edgar Street venue is where you'll want to be this Spring. more...
THE Herefordshire Drama Festival of One Act plays takes place at The Courtyard next week from March 20-23. more...
Hereford-based puppet theatre company, Sea-Legs is currently in production on its new show, provisionally entitled `One Small Step' and written in collaboration with well-known local writer James Clarke. more...
Bedstone College enjoys an outstanding reputation for its drama and music. more...
The Reduced Shakespeare Company has resurrected its third and most remarkable offering and is taking the road to Hereford via Worcester in a unique and hysterical tribute to the good book: `The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)'. more...
Films change on Friday and run for seven days (unless otherwise stated). Phone venue for times. more...
FOR the first time in two years, toes will be tapping to the strains of Irish bands at Presteigne's Memorial Hall, which was temporarily closed by Foot and Mouth in February last year. more...
Written and directed by Iain Storey `Africa Africa' presents a musical of traditional Zulu cultural vibrancy that echoes the essence of The Mighty Zulu Nation and the heartbeat of Africa. more...
MADAM, On behalf of Hereford Animal Aid and particularly the dogs, can we offer our sincere thanks for printing the article regarding the re-homing of stray and abandoned dogs. more...
MADAM, The experience of shopping in Hereford is a dismal one! more...
MADAM, From our house we look directly at the polytunnels at Huntington mentioned by your correspondent from London. more...
MADAM, May I express the sadness and frustration which I know is shared by many, about the closure of Stratford House Residential Home in Hereford? more...
MADAM - I feel great pity for the people of Hereford who are `stuck in traffic'. more...
Madam, I must say how much I enjoy reading the letter page every week. more...
MADAM, I would like to congratulate The Hereford Times, or Hereford Council Planning Department (perhaps it should be both) for the new layout of the Planning Applications. more...
Madam, I think it's a real shame that the council have decided that the Sydonia pool is not safe. more...
Madam, My daughter, along with about 600 other children took swimming lessons at the pool and I always found the staff extremely helpful and the lesson groups far better than any other in the area. more...
MADAM, I was very disappointed the swimming baths have closed. My daughter (aged 4)and I were only there yesterday. more...
MADAM, The local council have stated Leominster's economy is fragile, they are spot-on. more...
MADAM, The local council have stated Leominster's economy is fragile, they are spot-on. more...
MADAM, We have just been told that the pool in Leominster is closed and likely to remain so. Apparently this is either on health and safety grounds or because the boiler has failed again. more...
RAILWAY enthusiasts have a rare opportunity to look around some of north Herefordshire's lost stations later this year. more...
THE wheels of protest are in motion over a proposed skateboard park for Bromyard and both sides are due to slug it out at a public meeting tonight, March 14. more...
A SMALL village in the Golden Valley has celebrated the opening of its first community hall. more...
A COUNTY chef is racing against the clock to raise enough sponsorship money to enter the London Marathon. more...
UNUSUAL Italian figurines standing between five and six inches in height were found in a wet cardboard box in woodland near Symonds Yat. more...
THE Cancer Research UK shop in Ross-on-Wye is hoping to find some more volunteers to go with the new look that it received last month. more...
STAFF at Safeway in Ross-on-Wye are winning the battle of the bulge as part of the store's national Eat Smart challenge. more...
A FORMER Ross-on-Wye family doctor who also played a leading part in other aspects of town life, Brian Spencer Smith has died. more...
A GROUP of actors are ready to hit the road after playing lead roles at a popular Mid Wales hotel. more...
THE Bishop of Hereford has accused the Government of behaving like the Taliban over its plans to build a wind farm in unspoilt countryside. more...
JOHN Middleton had his eye on a pretty girl he had seen around the town. more...
A NEW voice will soon be heard in the debate on roads and transportation in Herefordshire. more...
OFFICIALLY it's called burglary artifice - a grand sounding name for the low crime of conning your way into a vulnerable victim's home and stealing valuables. Better known as distraction burglary, the offence is all too familiar to county police. more...
A GROUP of Herefordshire students will be going `into Africa' this Easter as part of a Bulmers development project funded by the company `community chest'. more...
COUNTY bus operators have rejected claims they sell `tickets to ride to nowhere'. more...
HOUSEHOLDS in Herefordshire will be hit with an increase in council tax of 8.5 per cent in the next financial year. more...
TWO Herefordshire teachers are among more than 150 from the West Midlands who have been praised for their commitment and hard work after earning a leadership qualification in preparation for the role of headteacher. more...
TRAINS between Hereford and Birmingham will be replaced by buses in each direction on Sunday, March 31, and Monday, April 1. more...
THREE Hereford men from very different walks of life will pool their expertise in the latest attempt to drive the first land-based vehicle from Alaska to Siberia. more...
HEREFORD MP Paul Keetch is `comfortable' with eventual legalisation, and senior church officials have come out against its possession as a criminal offence - attitudes toward cannabis in the county are changing, driven by wider recognition of a need for fresh thinking on drugs issues. more...
THOUSANDS of people in Herefordshire have been shocked at the news that the doctor who looked after their health for 44 years has been killed in a road accident, writes LIZ WATKINS. more...
UNIONS at Herefordshire College of Technology (HCT) have passed a vote of no confidence in the Chair of Governors and intend industrial action against a partial pay award proposed to help the college out of its cash plight. more...
THE county's education budget can't meet government spending targets. Schools face freezes on staff, limited maintenance and rising charges for services such as music tuition so sums add up. more...
CONTROVERSIAL proposals in Herefordshire's draft Unitary Development Plan are to be bounced back for further consideration. more...
ANGRY swimmers are demanding Herefordshire Council makes public all documents relating to the closure of the Sydonia pool in Leominster. more...
A LYONSHALL man was found dead in a hedgerow by a team of police dog handlers 40 hours after he went missing. more...
OVERNIGHT on February 25 and 26, two attempts were made to steal cars from Bridge Street and Lower Cross, Kington. Neither was successful, though damage was caused. more...
A HEREFORDSHIRE mechanic has utilised a newly acquired skill to keep a century old car on the move during one of the UK's best-known vintage vehicle rallies. more...
A CONTROVERSIAL paint storage site at Kington labelled `a toxic dump' by the leader of Herefordshire Council has had its development plans blocked. more...
A SILVER penny made in a Hereford mint nearly 1,000 years ago is expected to fetch up to £400 when it is auctioned later this month. more...
THE first woman to be appointed Director General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington will be the guest speaker at an evening with Herefordshire Federation of Women's Institutes at the Shirehall on March 22. more...
THE owner of a city caravan park drowned while carrying out what he called his `mucky job'. more...
SHOPPERS in Hereford's High Town would be forgiven for thinking that they are north of the border after a Highland piper was spotted rustling up a tune in the city. more...
A 49-YEAR-OLD man bought fake £1 coins for 50p each in a Hereford pub to use in gaming machines, Worcester Crown Court heard. more...
RISING rents and diminishing numbers of traders, coupled with the knock on effect from the foot and mouth crisis could spell the end for Hereford's open market. more...
WORK has started on a new safer crossing for pedestrians in Belmont Road, Hereford. more...
A TEACHER from Hereford is raising a stink over human excrement, which he claims litters the track at Hereford Railway Station. more...
POSTAL workers met at High Town in Hereford on Saturday to raise public awareness of plans to change Herefordshire's postal service. more...
A MAGNIFICENT oil painting of a steam locomotive commissioned by Bulmers has sold for more than £40,000 at a London auction. more...
A 31-YEAR-OLD man has appeared at Hereford Magistrates Court charged with the attempted murder of a woman in Lower Bullingham on March 8. more...
AMBITIOUS plans to trademark Hereford a `City of Living Crafts' have moved closer to becoming a reality following the confirmation of a £15.8 million package for major county projects. more...
SUPPORTERS of Churchill House Museum turned to picket power in a colourful last stand protest on the steps of Hereford Shirehall. more...
A HEREFORD Cathedral School pupil inadvertently added a gem to the list of ridiculous reasons not to hand in homework when an army bomb squad blew up his GCSE project on a train in Birmingham. more...
IT cost £4.3 million and is clearly the pride of Ledbury. People in the town fought for six years for a new hospital and it opens next week, writes LIZ WATKINS. more...
STAFF in Hereford Hospitals are celebrating the news that their work has been recognised as some of the best in the West Midlands, and in the country as a whole. more...
HEALTH managers in Herefordshire have ruled out a 120 bed or 50 bed addition to the new County Hospital. more...
ANGRY nurses at Hereford's new hospital have accused Hereford Hospitals Trust of letting them down over car parking. more...
THIS smart piece of equipment is called a diathermy machine and has been given to Hereford hospitals by Free Masons in Herefordshire. more...
A LEOMINSTER mum is calling on local drivers to take heed of pedestrians using the town's newest zebra crossings after her four-year old daughter was nearly mown down by a car. more...
LEOMINSTER Community Hospital's league of friends is urging supporters to `have a go' in creating exotic and seasonal headwear. more...
PANTOMIME fun in a village hall was tinged with sadness as the actors remembered a missing member of the cast, writes PETE BLENCH. more...
TEARS and anger erupted in Leominster following the sudden closure, draining out and boarding up of the town's popular Sydonia Swimming Pool. more...
MADAM, I spotted with interest your headline `MP Hits Back on City Beds Crises'. As somebody who has direct experience of the major problems associated with Hereford Hospital's inadequate provision, I was surprised to see MP Paul Keetch engaged in bashing Labour politicians, including those who sit in coalition with his Liberal colleagues on Herefordshire Council, and made no mention whatsoever of the beds crises, or indeed of health at all in any manner, shape or form. more...
Madam, In your report "MP hits back on city beds crisis" (7 March) you quote local MP Paul Keetch as having said: "Voting Labour in Hereford at the last election almost let a Tory MP back in - I doubt that is what Tony Blair really wants". more...
MADAM, Paul Keetch (Hereford Times, March 7) shouldn't be too smug when he says that "Labour are almost irrelevant in Herefordshire politics". A ballot box protest against continuous council tax increases could easily make the Liberals the irrelevance. more...
MADAM, I was shocked and dismayed at something I heard on the local radio. more...
Madam, Hereford staged a magnificent international football tournament last weekend. more...
PROMOTION-chasing Ross Town Football Club have been given planning permission by Herefordshire Council to install floodlights at their sports' centre headquarters. more...
BULMERS and Marriotts will be bidding to carry off the Hereford Times Herefordshire Football League FW Peterson Cup at Wellington Football Club this Wednesday (6.30pm). more...
HEREFORDSHIRE County Table Tennis Championships take place this Sunday at Whitecross School, Hereford, at 9am. more...
ANDREW Fieldhouse reached a notable landmark when he won his 50th gold medal in winning the 100m butterfly event at the Gloucester County Championships at the Kingswood Pool, Bristol. more...
HEREFORD United's Edgar Street headquarters could be part of a major redevelopment incorporating a new leisure centre for the city. more...
Wellington 1 more...
Bustleholme Reserves 2 Leominster Town 0 more...
ENGLAND'S blind footballers finished runners-up in a successful four-nation competition at Hereford's Royal National College for the blind, writes IAN MORGAN. more...
WESTFIELDS are in the final of the Robert Biggart Trophy after a penalty shoot-out success in their semi-final replay with Malvern Town at Langland Stadium. more...
Ludlow Town Reserves 3 Hinton 4 more...
Headington Amateurs 3 Ross Town 3 more...
Pegasus Juniors 0 Tuffley Rovers 2 more...
Darlaston Town 3 Bromyard Town 7 more...
HEREFORDSHIRE referees will have to make an extra commitment if they wish to move up the ladder thanks to the new regulations proposed by the Football Association. more...
Shawbury United 0 Kington Town 2 more...
Westfields 2 more...
THE Under-16 division is now facing a fixtures backlog of worrying proportions after only one match was completed at the weekend. more...
IN-FORM Leominster maintained their mini-revival with a surprise 1-0 win over a depleted Pegasus in the first round of the HFL Journal Cup. more...
COLWALL thrashed bottom-of-the-table Swindon 6-0 in the West Clubs Women's League Premier Division 1. more...
HEREFORD crashed to a 2-1 home defeat against lowly Whitchurch 2nd in the Gerrard West of England and South Wales League Premier Division 3. more...
RETIRING joint secretary/treasurer Ivor Davies was warmly thanked by representatives of the county clubs at the annual meeting of the Herefordshire County Golf Clubs, held at the Herefordshire Golf Club. more...
HEREFORD United's Edgar Street headquarters could be part of a major redevelopment incorporating a new leisure centre for the city. more...
Five Ways OE 17 pts Bromyard 17 more...
Hereford 24 pts more...
Kenilworth 32 pts Luctonians 20 more...
Dunlop 15 pts more...
Kynoch 8 pts more...
AYLESTONE School claimed the honours in the inaugural Herefordshire Schools County Rugby Festival when they won two of the three age groups. more...
PERSEVERANCE has finally paid off for Ellesmere College in the Herefordshire Schools Invitation Sevens at Kingsland on Saturday. more...
THE outcome of the Three Counties Indoor Bowling Festival Cup held at Wormelow was in doubt until the completion of the final series of matches with Worcestershire eventually claiming victory. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE fielded three senior and two junior teams at the West Midlands Netball tournament in Walsall and finished fifth overall. more...
YOUNG rider Holly Bradshaw secured both qualifying places at the Trailblazers second round competition in the Forest of Dean. more...
A BUMPER mid-week crowd was present to witness Hereford racecourse's countryside day last week and the day was voted a huge success as racegoers enjoyed a full day's racing culminating in a Charity flat race. more...
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