Herefordshire | Archive | 2005 | June
A Contemporary Applied Arts student at Herefordshire College of Art and Design has been accepted for the acclaimed Chelsea Craft Fair. more...
Hereford's historic Castle Green is the venue for a competition to find the best local pavement Picassos. more...
BBC2's Flog It team visits Hereford on Sunday in search of valuables. more...
Hereford teacher and writer Joe Jenkins has scooped an international prize with a home-made documentary about his own anti-war protest. more...
Victor Borge was a brilliant pianist and virtuoso comedian whose top-rating TV shows were loved by audiences throughout the English-speaking world, as were his live performances. more...
Artist and murder mystery manufacturer Jane Froud is slowing down a bit. more...
IT'S undeniably difficult to impress a child of the 21st century. Computer wizardry and sophisticated special effects have rendered every child in the land more than a little blasé. more...
Goldie Hawn was once told by Elvis Presley that she looked like a chicken that had just been hatched. That was in the '70s when the actress had gone to see him in a red knit jumpsuit. more...
Max Boyce proved a winner with locals on the preview night of this year's Hay Festival. more...
Courtyard-based theatre company New Theatre Works (NTW) is back with five new pieces, written by writers aged between 17 and 25. more...
Reform theatre company returns to The Courtyard next Tuesday, with its new award-winning play, Stand. more...
Hereford actress Kate Izon, a former pupil of St Paul's Primary School, Tupsley, will take a leading role in Gloucester-based Rain or Shine's production of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. more...
Winners at this year's Radio 2 British Folk Awards and well loved in the area, the Oysterband are to headline at a fund-raising concert in Titley, near Presteigne, on September 4. more...
Emily Smith and her band have been playing at venues and festivals the length of the UK, Europe and the USA and on June 10 they'll be at Hereford Courtyard. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE Council's move to a new HQ could kick-start the county's biggest ever real estate sale with properties like Hereford Town Hall and the authority's Brockington base in the city coming on the market. more...
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COUNTRY lovers are to be given their first glimpse of the Forest of Dean's newest wildlife haven. more...
THE centenary year of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society was a triumphal success, the annual meeting of the board of management was told. more...
A NEW factory producing green electricity from cider fruit will operate all the year round when it comes on stream within three years. more...
TWENTY-ONE this year and HFT Forklifts has the key to the door - of new, purpose-built headquarters. more...
BUSINESSES from throughout Herefordshire showcased their products at a record-breaking Business Festival at the Three Counties Showground. more...
THOUSANDS of people in Herefordshire are filling in a survey about health in the county. more...
AMBULANCE technician Ian Skyrme wants to know why it took nearly 14 months to get an X-ray appointment at Hereford County Hospital. more...
RUNNING the London Marathon was definitely not fun a mile for Emily Ludwig. more...
Westfields have bolstered their back-room staff with the appointment of former Hereford United player Ian Rodgerson to assist with player rehabilitation and coaching as well as helping first-team physio Mark Newman with treatment of injuries. more...
ENGLISH Bowling Association president John Tolley is bringing a side to Kingsland to take on the village bowling club on Thursday, June 9. more...
KINGTON golfer Alan Williams produced a storming finish to win the club's Kildare Cup with a score just one short of the course record at Bradnor Hill. more...
A FORMER England cricketer will be among the opposition when Herefordshire take on Cheshire in their first Minor Counties Champion-ship match of the season at Luctonians' Kingsland ground, starting 11am on Sunday. more...
TWO key players from Hereford United's last two successful seasons have signed on again for the club. more...
KINGTON Town have appointed Hereford United's football in the community officer Adriano Girolami as their new player-manager. more...
TWO key players from Hereford United's last two successful seasons have signed on again for the club. more...
CRUSADER WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY LEAGUE more...
ALL-ROUNDER Mike Williams played a major role in ensuring that Marden notched their first win of the season in the Flint & Cook Marches League Division 2. more...
THE overseas influence was much in evidence in the Flint & Cook Marches League when four superb individual performances were rewarded with wins. more...
PAKISTANI Zahid Saeed produced a devastating all-round display to keep Bromyard at the head of the Crusader Worcester-shire County League Division 2 with a seven-run success over Cookley. more...
KINGTON golfer Alan Williams produced a storming finish to win the club's Kildare Cup with a score just one short of the course record at Bradnor Hill. more...
TOUR captain Mark Williams won the prize of a watch after finishing top of a 10-man Herefordshire group's 10th annual Rolex Tour on the Costa del Sol. more...
MINSTER College have qualified for the Midlands final of the British Heart Foundation Junior Golf Championships at Solihull in July. more...
LEOMINSTER qualified for the next round of the Shropshire & Hereford-shire Handicap League when they completed their initial group matches unbeaten with a hard-fought 3½-2½ victory at Hereford Municipal club. more...
LEDBURY Rugby Club have received a reprieve from relegation and will remain in Midlands 3 West (South) next season. more...
BROMYARD Rugby Club anticipate hosting 300 guests for their 25th season celebratory lunch next month. more...
NORTH Midlands surrendered the County Championship Shield but only reluctantly after being beaten 20-13 by Hertfordshire in a nail-biting final at Twickenham. more...
ORLETON racing drivers Roger and Scott Moran lost out to mechanical problems when they contested two rounds of the Nicholson McLaren British Hill Climb Championship at Gurston Down. more...
BARONS Cross A team completed a championship and cup double at Leominster and District Pool League finals night and presentation evening at the Re-Rack club. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE visited Barnwood for the annual Terry Hooker Trophy match and had five winning rinks against Gloucestershire in a 123-108 victory. more...
ROSS Centre men's B team suffered their first defeat of the season when beaten 3-1 at home by Leominster B in the Hereford & Worcester Division 5. more...
HEREFORD and County AC's team competed at Telford in the first meeting of the Midland Women's League. more...
WINNER of last year's senior title at the Rhayader Evening Motocross series Paul Rogers wasted no time in getting into gear this time around. more...
HEREFORD'S Mel Porter will line up alongside some of the biggest names in darts after qualifying for the Budweiser UK Open. more...
YOUTH and experience enjoyed success in equal measure as local crews showed top form in Monday's Hereford Regatta. more...
HEREFORDSHIRE'S young sculling star Daniel Middleton struck gold at his first attempt at the National Schools of Great Britain Regatta at the national watersports centre in Nottingham. more...
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