Herefordshire | Archive | 2004 | March
A CHANCE to see the best of recent work from Herefordshire craftspeople is being offered by Hereford Art Gallery and Museum. more...
A GLIMPSE into the creative process of a successful artist is coming up. more...
Clubs/classes/societies more...
WHEN Jeremy Hardy played Ludlow Assembly Rooms last Saturday, he got rather a surprise. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE FESTIVAL 2004 TROPHY WINNERS more...
THERE'S no doubt it's Alison Steadman's Beverly who haunts all versions and thoughts of Abigail's Party, since Mike Leigh's satire burst onto the nation's stage 27 years ago via TV's Play For Today. more...
ARTLESS country girl Tatyana spends her days reading romantic novels and dreaming. more...
A NEW play from local writer and producer Nick Bamford is guaranteed to drag Courtyard audiences into the 21st century. more...
AFTER the success of Scrooge - the Musical in November, Hereford Amateur Operatic Society is busy rehearsing its next production, The King and I, which will be performed at the Courtyard Theatre from April 23-May 1. more...
AN Ullingswick woman is to become a West End girl when a national tour kicks off in Tewkesbury next week. more...
POWERFUL theatre combines with prayer with the arrival of the Riding Lights Theatre Company in Monmouth next Monday. more...
HEREFORD'S Courtyard Theatre will be alive to the sound of music next month when it holds auditions for a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical more...
THERE'S a chance to see how Ledbury amateur thespians plan to wow the judges in the Herefordshire round of the 2004 All England Drama Festival. more...
Starsky and Hutch (15) Dir: Todd Phillips more...
A recent item about the forthcoming 60th anniversary of D-Day has prompted a call from the Herefordshire branch of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) to tell us about a major local event planned to mark the occasion. more...
IT was time to strike up the bands for a day's workshop and concert in Hereford's Shire Hall. more...
A SPECIAL musical treat is in store with the arrival of a Cambridge College choir. more...
HOMAGE is being paid to the style and songs of Flanders and Swann tomorrow night. more...
Musicians from Hereford Cathedral School showcased their prowess when a trio performed at the national final of the National Chamber Music Competition in St John's Smith's Square. more...
TRAINING and discipline are the words that crop up when director of music Geraint Bowen talks about the run-up to this year's St John Passion, to be performed in Hereford Cathedral on April 6. more...
THE NEW Bridge linking Madley and Bridge Sollars is quite superb, and as the council indicated in the Hereford Times, appears well constructed and built within the time predicted. more...
I READ with some interest the various articles and letters in the Hereford Times about the council tax rate. more...
I READ with interest MP Mr Bill Wiggin giving us half the story on council tax, (Hereford Times, March 11. more...
I DO not know of the answer your correspondent Tony Adamson ("When the Jobs are Revalued" Hereford Times, March 11), will receive from the council leader or treasurer but I can respond from the staff's point of view. more...
IN reply to Mr Tony Adamson's letter, all councils have traditionally run two sets of terms and conditions: one for manual workers and the other for administrative, technical and managerial staff. more...
BROMYARD school pupils are sailing through their production of the musical hit South Pacific. more...
TOP conservationist David Bellamy has named Poston Mill Park in the Golden Valley, as one of the UK's most environmentally-friendly holiday parks. more...
THE developers of the multi-million pound waste treatment plant in Herefordshire's Golden Valley have promised a policy of openness as they begin preparations to construct their plant in Madley. more...
ROSS-ON-WYE children got into the holiday spirit with an Easter Eggsploration project to kick off Brampton Abbots Primary School Eco Week. more...
INTRUDERS left empty handed after a burglar alarm went off at Ye Hostelrie Hotel in Goodrich. more...
THERE will be no messing about on the river when up to 200 rafters take to the water for a serious sprint from Ross-on-Wye to Monmouth on Saturday. more...
A NEW council tax reform group formed by `senior citizens' has met in Hereford. more...
THE Office of the Deputy Prime Minister will have final say on Kingstone High School's proposed £1.2million sports hall. more...
CHILDREN at St Martin's Primary School in Hereford were `dancing with daffodils' when they took part in last Friday's nationwide attempt to smash the world simultaneous poetry reading record. more...
AN organisation dedicated to promoting tourism in Herefordshire is looking for a new home and they're appealing for help. more...
AMOROUS amphibians take HART - a sure way to safe sex is sign-posted for when the action begins after dark. more...
LINDIS Percy has served a dozen jail sentences, been arrested hundreds of times and been served with countless banning orders - but Hereford Quakers are happy to have her as a guest. more...
VISITORS enjoying Herefordshire by rambling, walking and horse riding are boosting the county's economy and that's official. more...
AN EXPERIENCED Hereford runner will be keeping good company when he takes part in the London Marathon next month. more...
HEREFORD MP Paul Keetch has called for the suspension of proposal by the Highways Agency to close a slip road on the A40 dual carriageway at Whitchurch. more...
VOLUNTARY organisations across the county have been awarded almost £144,000 by Herefordshire Council. more...
A HEREFORDSHIRE man is set to see another side to the Brecon Beacons when he undertakes an SAS specialist challenge. more...
CROSSED wires could hold up Herefordshire's bid for a high-speed broadband internet link. more...
HOMES across the county were left without power after 70mph winds caused disruption to electricity supplies over the weekend. more...
WORK started on Monday to make a notorious Herefordshire accident spot safer. more...
ONE of Hereford's leading building specialists BCD International of Burghill has completed the purchase of Kevin Wadley Joinery of Harrow Road. more...
REGIONAL representative Michael Gordon-Smith aims to raise the profile of the Three Counties branch of the Institute of Directors in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. more...
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown's 2004 Budget speech brought no new taxes and `resembled more of a pre-election party political broadcast', according to Mike Horwood, tax specialist and partner at Baker Tilly in Hereford. more...
POLICE investigating the death of Herefordshire heroin addict Rachel Whitear say there is no new evidence to suggest she was murdered. more...
A PARTNERSHIP has been struck between allpay.net and Herefordshire Housing to help tenants pay their rent in a more convenient and secure manner. more...
A FLAGSHIP development to enhance the training of the Herefordshire workforce was launched last week. more...
UNDER the provision of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 all the premises to which the public have access, offices, council buildings, banks, shops, hotels, restaurants, places of entertainment, tourist attractions, churches are required to be made accessible to everybody, including disabled people. more...
THE Royal National College for the Blind opened a city centre point of contact on Monday where businesses can learn more about employing blind and partially-sighted people. more...
A HEREFORD couple have praised a supermarket `superman' who appeared from nowhere to use a pen-knife and cooking oil to free their bawling baby stuck in a shopping trolley. more...
HIS Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation to become Patron of Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust. more...
A PAIR of agile superheroes were on hand in case their skills were needed when four Cathedral School choristers took a leap of faith and abseiled from Hereford Cathedral's central tower last Friday. more...
A STRONG, caring ethos for young people is a strength of Kington's Lady Hawkins High School, according to Ofsted inspectors. more...
Easter holidays and outings will soon be here... check out this week's money-saving offers. more...
52 pages on homes for sale in this week's edition. 32 pages of motoring. more...
CRAFTMAKERS and exhibitors who fancy mixing with the likes of Marilyn Monroe or Humphrey Bogart are invited to Kington on June 5. more...
PRO-HUNT campaigner and celebrity chef Clarissa Dickson Wright encouraged county huntsmen to `keep the faith' after joining them in the field last Saturday. more...
THE Unity Garden at Ledbury Road in Hereford are selling plants and other items in a `closing down' sale next Tuesday at 6.30pm. more...
JOHN Newman was determined not to show himself up, but pride came before a fall. more...
HEREFORD was the scene for the opening of Welsh Water's largest water treatment centre in England last Friday. more...
A HEREFORD community is joining forces with police and other agencies to make their area a safer place in which to live. more...
PETER Reavill, finds liaison officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, is at Hereford Museum and Art Gallery in Broad Street tomorrow (Friday) to help the public identify and record their finds. more...
CHURCHES Together in Hereford are staging a service of witness and meditation on Good Friday, April 9, at 10.30am in High Town. There will be meditation and worship through the medium of music and drama and in readings and hymns. more...
THE district court judge for Hereford says downgrading cannabis will do nothing to help the city in its battle against hard drugs. more...
A GLORIOUS, tranquil expanse of parkland is set to become reality for Hunderton residents thanks to a £66,000 grant from the Countryside Agency's Doorstep Greens Project. more...
ONE thousand miles in 30 hours was the target. The result was more than £40,000 for Macmillan Cancer Relief. more...
HEREFORD estate agent and Rotarian Paul Morris will be the first to have his blood pressure checked on Saturday morning when the Hereford Rotary Club caravan comes to High Town to offer free blood pressure checks. more...
THE Marches Housing Association is launching a development of 14 homes on the former General Hospital site in Hereford today (Thursday). more...
A NEW guidebook to Hereford Cathedral is being launched in the College Hall next Saturday. more...
AFTER 22 years of providing help to the sick and injured in Herefordshire, Dugald Holloway has moved over the boundary into Worcestershire. more...
A CON MAN who swindled a building society in Hereford out of £9,000 using a false passport was caught when police stopped his car for having a faulty taillight, a court was told. more...
GARDENING guru Monty Don has agreed to head a new `watchdog' group to safeguard the Arrow Valley near Leominster. more...
A 15-YEAR-OLD girl was airlifted to hospital after a trampoline accident at the Minster College on Monday. more...
SOME of the works of the acclaimed 19th century Leominster artist John Scarlett Davis are to form a new attraction in the town's folk museum. more...
PART of old Leominster is about to pass into history. The last four stall holders of the once booming Grafton House antiques and bric-a-brac market will cease trading on Saturday. more...
LEOMINSTER group Contra Band is staging an Easter concert at the Minster College on Saturday in aid of Debra, the charity working to find a cure for `Butterfly Children' who have skin as fragile as a butterfly's wing. more...
MORE than 200 home-care workers employed by Herefordshire Council's social services fear for their jobs. more...
IT was not enough for Colin Javens to fight fate against the odds and win - now he wants to take on the world. more...
A LEOMINSTER meeting tomorrow (Friday) will focus on ways that local people and organisations can join forces to tackle rural problems. more...
A LEOMINSTER event organised by conservation charity Caring for God's Acre will focus on memorials. more...
THE final report of a housing needs survey by Herefordshire Council says that around 140 new affordable homes will be needed to meet demand in Leominster in the next five years. more...
THE final report of a housing needs survey by Herefordshire Council says that around 140 new affordable homes will be needed to meet demand in Leominster in the next five years. more...
A LEOMINSTER dad is in training for the challenge of a lifetime. more...
AMNESTY International has recently launched a worldwide campaign, Stop Violence Against Women. more...
I WAS delighted to read the observations of someone so young as Matthew Hitchiner speaking up for the trees (Readers' Times, March 18) and I concur wholeheartedly with his objections to cutting hedges with mechanical blades. more...
THE benefits of local football clubs to the community was a theme stressed by former England international Trevor Brooking on his visit to Hereford on Monday. more...
HEREFORD United manager Graham Turner has boosted his squad before today's transfer deadline by signing 22-year-old midfielder Rob Betts from Third Division Kidder-minster Harriers until the end of the season. more...
THE husband-and-wife team of Nick and Claire Taylor collected the first trophy of the season at Llangorse Sailing Club last Sunday. more...
Hereford Cathedral 12 pts King Edward's Aston 9 more...
The Nationwide Confer-ence management committee have decided not to impose a 10-point deduction on Exeter City for entering into a Corporate Voluntary Agreement last October. more...
The Nationwide Confer-ence management committee have decided not to impose a 10-point deduction on Exeter City for entering into a Corporate Voluntary Agreement last October. more...
HEREFORD United shareholders will hear that the club has slipped slightly further into the red when they attend the annual meeting at the Three Counties Hotel at 7pm next Wednesday. more...
WESTFIELDS' new stadium, allpay.park, was officially launched this week - and given a kick-start by one of the best known names in British football. more...
HEREFORD United manager Graham Turner has boosted his squad before today's transfer deadline by signing 22-year-old midfielder Rob Betts from Third Division Kidder-minster Harriers until the end of the season. more...
Hereford Times Hereford-shire League Senior Cup semi-finals: Ewyas Harold 2 Wellington 0, Pegasus 5 Hinton 1. more...
HGTA HEREFORDSHIRE JUNIOR LEAGUE more...
Hereford United 2 Cheltenham Town 3 more...
THIS Sunday the Herefordshire FA will be attempting to reach the final of the Midland Counties Under-16 Challenge Cup when they entertain Huntingdon-shire FA in the semi-final at Ledbury Town's New Street ground with a 2pm kick-off. more...
THE Herefordshire Football Association recently held their annual dinner when three members, Neil Jenkins, Ray Crawthorn and Jim Lambert, each received Life Membership Awards. more...
WELLINGTON had the better of their Midland Floodlit Youth League Southern Division game at Gloucester City but had to settle for a 1-1 draw. more...
Presteigne 5 Llanfyllin 2 more...
Wednesbury Town 1 Leominster Town 0 more...
Bromyard Town 2 Dudley Town 2 more...
Ross Town 1 Purton 1 more...
Brierley Hill & Dudley 1 Hereford 0 more...
THE weekend weather made conditions difficult for football and two of the county's senior clubs had games postponed. Kington Town's pitch was waterlogged for their West Midlands League fixture with Bustleholme, while the gale-force winds at Hereford Leisure Centre caused Pegasus Juniors' Hellenic League game with Pewsey Vale to be called off. Junior football games were also affected. more...
THE Jewson Herefordshire Sunday League Wye Guild Cup semi-final tie between Marden and visiting Vaga was abandoned midway through the second half with the home team leading 1-0. more...
Wellington 1 Heath Hayes 3 more...
Ledbury Town Res 2 Malvern Town Res 3 more...
Coseley Town 1 Ledbury Town 2 more...
EWYAS Harold and Pegasus will contest the Hereford Times Herefordshire League Strongbow Senior Cup final this season. more...
LEOMINSTER 3rd put a dent in Westbury and United Banks 6th's promotion bid by beating them 4-3 at home in the Gerrard West of England and South Wales League North-East West District 4. more...
AFTER Herefordshire went down 1-0 to Gloucestershire in the West of England County Championships at Cheltenham, they bounced back an hour later to beat Somerset 4-2 with Karen Hackley netting all their goals. more...
LEOMINSTER secured the win they needed to clinch promotion from the West Clubs' Women's League Severn Division 1 with a 3-2 home victory over Bretforton 2nd in their final match of the season. more...
Aug 9 3pm Tamworth (A) 3-1 (Smith 2, Guinan) more...
NEVILLE Ovens has taken over as captain at Ross-on-Wye Golf Club for 2004 to complete a rather special family double, with his wife Jean having become ladies' captain last November. more...
KEVIN Davies and Tristan Dodd proved two hot to handle when they carded no less than eight birdies in winning the Belmont Winter League final, beating Barry Norton and Chris Tulatz four and three. more...
KINGTON failed in their bid to become the first Herefordshire team to lift the Hargrove Trophy since it was started in 1956 when they went down 3-0 in the second leg of the final at Hawkstone Park to lose 4-2 on aggregate. more...
AS a youngster my favourite team was Wolverhampton Wanderers and Billy Wright was my idol. more...
Malvern 57 pts Hereford 7 more...
LUCTONIANS may well reach the final of the North Midlands Cup without playing a game after Saturday's scheduled semi-final opponents Bromsgrove pulled out, citing that they were unable to field a registered front-row. more...
ALTHOUGH champion jockey Tony McCoy took the riding honours at Hereford on Monday with a double from his three booked rides, it was the performance of Flying Falcon from the Kings Caple yard of Venetia Williams in the Bumper race that took the eye, writes Graham Saveker. more...
JOCKEY Gary Hanmer took the plaudits at the South Herefordshire Hunt point to point meeting at Garnons on Sunday when the Chesire-based jockey scored a treble with wins on Just Cliquot, Festival Time and Gaynors Gamble. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE suffered two defeats in the English Counties Table Tennis League. more...
Nikki Segust carried off her first ever Hereford-shire Senior County Table Tennis Champion-ship ladies' singles title at the expense of her mother, Susan. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE gave a good account of themselves in the annual West Midlands Netball Tournament at Walsall, despite finishing seventh from eight counties. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE won the English Short Mat Bowling Association Inter-County `A' Champ-ionship by beating Staffordshire in the final at Bletchley. more...
Westfields 1 Grosvenor Park 0 more...
Westfields 3 WorcesterCity 1 more...
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