Herefordshire | Archive | 2002 | March
THE proposed removal of a 300-year-old hedgerow at Stewarts Hyde in Pencombe was opposed by Bromyard and Winslow Town Council's planning committee on Monday. more...
Bromyard smokers are being offered information about how to kick the habit and a free carbon monoxide test in the week of National No Smoking Day (Wednesday, March 13). more...
AUTHORS Rosie Rushton and Marcus Sedgwick were at Bromyard's Queen Elizabeth High School this week passing on their expert knowledge as part of the Hereford Book Festival. more...
NEW rubbish bins are on order to help tidy up Bromyard's streets. more...
BROMYARD'S police presence was further reduced from three to two officers this week with the departure of PC Richard Shakespeare. more...
A DAY of events to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee on Monday, June 3, has been planned by Bromyard and Winslow Town Council. more...
AN exhibition of life-size knitted sculptures of familiar Bromyard faces opened at the Conquest Theatre this week. more...
Bromyard Childs Play has received £4,100 to help extend its range of sports facilities for young people. more...
BROMYARD and Winslow Town Council has agreed to write to Herefordshire Council to ask that parking restrictions on the town's streets be changed from 30 minutes to a full hour. more...
BROKEN bottles and rubbish were left outside Bromyard's Heritage Centre in Rowberry Street on Saturday night by vandals, who also pulled a drainpipe off the wall and tore up a wooden footpath. more...
A MOBILE phone mast in the grounds of Bromyard's Queen Elizabeth High School is safe according to a study carried out by the Government's Depart-ment of Trade and Industry. more...
RESIDENTS worried about the building of a proposed skateboard ramp in their area turned out in force to complain at Bromyard and Winslow's Town Council's planning meeting on Monday. more...
A HEREFORD student's GCSE project sparked the security scare that shutdown Birminghan New Street railway station earlier this week. more...
AN annual electronics project at Colwall Primary School has helped one of its teachers win a prestigious national award. more...
MORGAN'S newest car is to race in Le Mans 24-hour race, 40 years after their Morgan Plus 4 drove through the chequered flag to win the two-litre class. more...
Ledbury WI will spend an evening with the former MI5 spy-mistress, Dame Stella Rimington later this month. Her visit to Hereford's Shire Hall, on Friday, March 22, from 7.30pm, has been organised by the Herefordshire Federation of WIs. Dame Stella will answer questions and even non-members of the WI will be able to breach security, if they have a ticket! For further details, ring on 01544 327237. more...
The Church of England Synod for the Diocese of Hereford is to meet on Saturday, March 9, to debate whether cannabis should be decriminalised. more...
THE fourth Hereford Health Fair is held tomorrow (Saturday), at the Shirehall, from 10am to 4pm. The public will be able to meet representatives from a wide range of health care professionals, both mainstream and complementary. There will be free lectures and workshops and refreshments at the event. more...
Bromyard Wind Band will be in concert at St Michael and All Angels' Church, Ledbury, tomorrow (Saturday), at 7.30pm, with "Big Band, Classical and Modern Pieces". Tickets are £5 on the door, or from Ledbury Books and Maps in the High Street. Proceeds will go towards the Ledbury Church Restoration Fund. more...
Edwinna McKinnon will be "Talking Textiles" at a gathering of the Ledbury and district branch of the Embroiderers' Guild on Friday, March 15, at 7.30pm, at the Leadon Bank Day Centre. more...
The next outing of the Ledbury Theatre Club will be on March 11, when a party will be going to see Single Spies at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. For further details on 01531 635355. more...
The AGM of the Ledbury and District Society takes place today (Friday) at 7.30pm at the Burgage Hall in Church Lane. Afterwards, the chairman of Herefordshire Council, Peter Harling, will give a talk on "Local Government - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". On March 22, also at the Burgage Hall, at 7.30pm, the former chairman of the Friends of the Dymock Poets, Linda Hart, will give a talk on "The Dymock Poets and their Countryside". more...
Are most Ledbury men hopeless at dancing, or do they take flight at steamy South American rhythms? more...
SURPLUS timber from a nature reserve near Newent is being transferred to Bromsberrow to create new homes for the village's stag beetle population. more...
Following delays caused by the foot and mouth crisis, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust is to start work again on a tidy-up programme at the Yarkhill and Monkhide sections of the waterway. more...
A four-course dinner and entertainment by Compost Heap will be the main features of the Mayor of Ledbury's Charity Dinner. more...
POLICE are continuing to investigate the disappearance of Ledbury teenager Nicholas "Nick" Webb. more...
Chief Superintendent Mark Howard has been appointed as the new Divisional Commander of West Mercia Constabulary's Hereford Division. more...
AN abandoned lurcher dog that has lived something of a charmed life will take to the ring at Crufts after receiving a special invitation. more...
BOOKINGS for the Hellens storytelling project at Much Marcle in June should be made by contacting Blanca Rey-Surman on 01531 635187 or at surman.b@btopen world.com. more...
There will be an Easter Aqua Disco at Ledbury Swimming Pool for youngsters aged 8 to 15 on Saturday March 23, from 6pm to 8pm. Children must be capable of swimming at least 25m and treading water for one minute. Tickets are limited to 110 and are available now from the pool, off Lawnside Road. more...
BOSBURY'S Women's Institute is among the organisations taking part in a table-top sale at St Katherine's, High Street, Ledbury, on Saturday, March 16, from 9.30am to noon. more...
NEWENT Town Council has a new member in the shape of Ray Hill, of The Parks, Ledbury Road. Mr Hill was elected unopposed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Coun Beryl Reid. more...
A VICTORIAN clock which used to stand in a Ledbury shop is to be auctioned in London. more...
YOUNGSTERS attending the Rat-a-Tat-Tat music discovery groups in Ledbury will have a new teacher after Easter. more...
A FIRST edition of a book by Ledbury-born poet laureate John Masefield goes under the hammer this week. more...
Kempley Daffodil Weekend takes place on Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24. There will be guided walks to the daffodil fields from the village hall at 2pm and 2.30pm each day. Distances tackled will be two and four miles. Refreshments will be served in the hall from 11am to 5.30pm, where there will also be home produce stalls. A fundraising draw will take place at 5pm on the Sunday. An exhibition of "Village Talents" takes place in St Edward's Church, throughout the weekend. more...
Ledbury Poetry Festival has applied to Herefordshire Council for a £4,680 grant to cover a third of its marketing and promotion costs this year. The application will be discussed by the unitary authority's Voluntary Sector Grants Panel at a meeting in the council chambers at Brockington, on Tuesday (March 12). more...
BUS services between Ledbury and Malvern are safe for the next six months thanks to a grant of about £5,000 from Herefordshire Council. Local operator Newbury Coaches asked for the subsidy because the service had not been paying for itself. Newbury Coaches runs buses four times a day between the two towns; First (formerly Midland Red) also runs services, but these have been subsidised for some time. Herefordshire transport chief Jim Davies said the grant had secured the services until the end of August, after which it would be reviewed. He said: "Because it crosses the county boundary, we would hope Worcestershire might be able to share the cost." more...
The Ledbury Reporter's Gary Bills-Geddes and his wife, Heather, are coming to terms with sleepless nights, having become the proud first-time parents of a baby daughter, Isabella. more...
A MOTHER from Dormington started a charity's awareness week off in fine style by collecting £508 in just a few hours at Ledbury's Tesco store. more...
Police are searching for a man who exposed himself to five girls on their way to John Masefield High School at around 8.55am on Thursday, February 28. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE Council has been told by the Local Government Ombudsman to make an official response to a complaint from a Ledbury motorist over its parking policy. more...
LEDBURY'S animal-testing laboratory Sequani is beefing up its security as it continues to be the focus for demonstrations by animal rights protesters. more...
Sponsorship has now been found for all 50 oak trees being planted in Ledbury this year to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. more...
Herefordshire Council has set up an assessment panel to decide which company, or companies, should be given the chance to take on the running of its care homes. more...
The Eastnor community is paying tribute to Maurice Martindale, aged 90, who died in Newark Hospital on Monday evening, leaving behind him the legacy of a much-photographed garden. more...
LEDBURY'S new Community Hospital will not have a chemist service when it opens a few days ahead of schedule on March 21. more...
A SHOPKEEPER fed-up of what he believes are over-zealous traffic wardens in Ledbury has started a petition. more...
A STRONG performance was given by Allsorts against Ledbury Magpies last week in their second meeting in the Hereford Winter League. more...
LEDBURY & District ASC travelled to Ludlow to compete against teams from Leominster and Ludlow for their first experience of the PGL Junior League. more...
UPTON Motosports staged the first meeting in the Wessex Centre on Sunday following extensive work that had been carried out on the natural sandy circuit to allow the event to be staged. more...
COLWALL women's hockey team's home Severn Division Two fixture against Lansdown on Saturday was a friendly occasion for a league game. more...
LEDBURY DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB more...
HEREFORDSHIRE champions Bromyard reached the last 16 of the National Indoor Cricket Championship before bowing out to Bicester & North Oxford on Sunday. more...
BROMYARD started brightly in this Express & Star Premier Division match, but the Shawbury side also settled quickly and the game was fairly even for the first half hour with few actual shots on target. more...
ROOKIE keeper Lee Evans is standing by for the biggest game of his career in Hereford United's Nationwide Conference clash with leaders Dagenham & Redbridge at Edgar Street tomorrow (3pm). more...
READY, Steady, Win has issued an appeal for help in creating a new Guinness World Record for the largest ever egg and spoon race on Saturday, March 30. more...
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LEDBURY Town played the final 15 minutes of this Express & Star Premier Division fixture with ten men after using all three substitutes ten minutes earlier. more...
FOR this North Midlands Shield tie Ledbury had quite a few changes from the side that defeated Stourport the week before. more...
ST Edward's, Oxford, defeated King's School, Worcester, 28-5 in the final of the Marches Sevens tournament played at Ledbury RFC on Sunday. more...
THE Ledbury-based boss of the Formula One racing team, KL Minardi Asiatech, is celebrating this week, after seeing his drivers power to fifth and seventh place in the first race of 2002 World Championships. more...
THIS U11s Tony Cole semi-final proved to be a closely fought match that was a credit to both sides and entertained a large crowd at Ledbury on Saturday. more...
SWIFTS wiped out a two-goal, first leg deficit and swept into the Stuart Sheehan Under 15s Cup final after a nail-biting penalty shoot out. more...
CLUB AC 30 and Kempsey United fought out a 1-1 draw in the Malvern Football League as the second and third placed teams warmed up for their Senior Cup final clash in May. more...
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