Herefordshire | Archive | 2007 | June
Nightingales have returned to Herefordshire. Bird Patrol has received reports that this melodious migrant has been heard in both the Fownhope and Mathon areas. more...
A PIONEERING Bromyard youth scheme has been recognised for its contribution to the town. more...
BROMYARD will be taken over by some special visitors as the second annual scarecrow festival comes to the town. more...
A HEALING meditation service takes place at St Mary's Church, in Bishop's Frome, on Sunday, June 10. It begins at 6pm and anyone is welcome. more...
THE Much Cowarne church bells restoration appeal has had a valuable boost, thanks to two successful fundraising events. A quilt exhibition in St Mary's Church and steam train rides and Easter egg hunt in Capon Bridge raised £2,500 to swell the coffers. A fun horse ride through Much Cowarne Parish in April also raised £900, to be split between the bells appeal and Burley Gate Village Hall. more...
TWO shop windows in Bromyard High Street were damaged in the early hours of Saturday morning. more...
A PLANT stall, raffle and tombola are among attractions at the Thornbury Fete tomorrow (Saturday). more...
FIREFIGHTERS from Bromyard were called out after a wood-burning stove at a home in Lulsley caught fire just after 4pm on Sunday. Swift action from the firefighters prevented the blaze spreading from the stove to the chimney or the rest of the house. more...
GUIDED tractor rides are among attractions at Lower Hope Farm, in Ullingswick, on Sunday, June 10. more...
A MAN was arrested in Bromyard at around 7.20pm on Monday, after a disturbance at the Hop Pole pub. The man allegedly smashed four windows at the premises after being ejected. He has been charged with criminal damage, possessing an offensive object and assaulting a police officer. He has been bailed and will appear before Herefordshire magis more...
BROMYARD'S hop-picking days will be brought to life in the latest exhibition by the Bromyard and District Local History Society. A Pocketful of Hops is launched at 1pm, on Saturday, June 9, at the Local History Centre, Sherford Street, Bromyard. Informative displays and stalls selling cakes, plants and produce will be on offer to visitors, along with tea and scones. Admission is free and anyone is welcome to drop in. more...
PEOPLE in and around Bromyard can comment on plans for family support services. more...
NEW tongue-in-cheek murder mystery Murder! Mystery! - and Suspenders? will run at Bromyard's Conquest Theatre, from Wednesday to Saturday, June 6-9. more...
THE Royal Mail has abandoned plans to move the town's delivery office to Leominster. more...
A CHARITY band night and auction will be held at Colwall Village Hall on Friday, June 8, in aid of the Prostate Cancer Charity. more...
COLWALL residents are invited to a meeting to discuss ideas for the future of Walwyn Meadow. more...
RESIDENTS of Colwall are concerned about plans for a mobile phone mast in the centre of the village. more...
A COLWALL man is urging people to sign a petition to save a young Iranian womanfacing execution. more...
A NEW garden festival is poised to blossom into a must for the diaries of the green-fingered. more...
A CYCLING club is calling on all those who enjoy travelling on two wheels to enter a race in the Herefordshire countryside. more...
HEAVY showers may have been responsible for an accident on Dinmore Hill yesterday afternoon. more...
THE life of Herefordshire's adopted war heroine will be one of those remembered at the seventh annual Violette Szabo Memorial Gathering. more...
A WOMAN has suffered an anaphylactic reaction after being stung a dozen times by bees. more...
A NEW device aimed at deterring crime and disorder is being trialled by police officers in Herefordshire. more...
A NEW device aimed at deterring crime and disorder is being trialled by police officers in Herefordshire. more...
DR Colin Skinner, author of "Beyond the setting sun", visited St Michael's Hospice as part of his amazing 6,000 mile walk across America and the UK - a journey he is undertaking for the second time. more...
HEREFORD band Frantik have finished their album, Cautious Lee's Big Day Out, their first release as a new signing to London-based Size Nine Records. more...
BORN to be a musician, Matthew Hines arrived on Christmas Day to the sound of jingle bells and just days later joined the rest of the family to listen to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on the radio. more...
BORN to be a musician, Matthew Hines arrived on Christmas Day to the sound of jingle bells and just days later joined the rest of the family to listen to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on the radio. more...
SUMMERTIME and the listening is easy at The Courtyard's Saturday Cafe, where the June line-up has just been released. more...
A QUARTET of musicians whose work never fails to get critics reaching for superlatives comes to The Courtyard next week for one night. more...
HEREFORD'S Breast Cancer Haven has introduced a support group for male partners and husbands and, to show its support, Hereford Police Male Voice Choir will be performing a concert for the charity on Saturday. more...
IN the late summer of 1933, Edward Elgar conducted his Dream of Gerontius - relating the journey of a man's soul from this world to whatever lies thereafter - in Hereford Cathedral. Within a few months England's greatest composer was on his own deathbed. more...
l Edward Elgar was born on June 2, 1857, at a small cottage in Broadheath, Worcestershire. more...
EDWARD Elgar was a great post-romantic composer in a European generation that included his close friend Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Glazunov. more...
TARRINGTON Parish Council wants to improve access to Church View, an area of open space in the village. more...
THE chairman of Ledbury Allotment Association has accused the town council of being obstructive in its ongoing search for land. more...
A six-year-old boy had four stitches after falling from a rusty climbing frame at Ledbury Recreation Ground Now his mother is calling on the town council to remove the equipment before anyone else is hurt. more...
LEDBURY Town Council would like to see improvements made to the town's CCTV system. more...
A SPRING auction at Posterity Architectural Antiques and Interiors was a great success. more...
A 14-year-old boy suffered a cut lip after he was punched in an assault near Ledbury Recreation Ground on Monday. more...
RESIDENTS have another chance to decide the fate of Ledbury's Master's House during an open day on Saturday, June 9. more...
STETSONS and headdresses will be the order of the day when Ledbury Primary School holds its summer fair on Friday, June 8. more...
WELL over 100 residents attended Ledbury Comm-unity Hall on Wednesday for an exhibition of plans for major water works. more...
LEDBURY milkmen have delivered a big boost to a local charity appeal after raising more than £1,000 through their doorstep deliveries. more...
CONCERN has been raised about an evergreen tree leaning near the southern boundary of the closed churchyard in Ledbury. more...
A DECISION to demolish the youth centre in Bye Street, Ledbury, has been taken and will not be reversed. more...
A TORTOISE, who has been a family pet for 36 years, has gone missing from its home in Castle Frome. more...
LEDBURY snake enthusiast Timothy Fry has told town councillors he now only wants to exercise one snake on the recreation ground, because his other had bitten him. more...
A WELL-Being Week at Ashperton Primary School encouraged children to exercise more and concentrate on healthy eating, while raising money for the Air Ambulance. more...
POLICE have launched a new initiative to combat anti-social behaviour in Ledbury. more...
THERE was a fairytale ending for the Ledbury youngster chosen to be this year's Carnival Princess. more...
IT'S a show that has to be seen to be believed - one man, 60 minutes, the original Star Wars trilogy. more...
SOME of the most memorable advertising ever produced in Britain is now on display at Hereford Museum and Art Gallery as it plays host to three touring exhibitions from the National Motor Museum. more...
SOME of the most memorable advertising ever produced in Britain is now on display at Hereford Museum and Art Gallery as it plays host to three touring exhibitions from the National Motor Museum. more...
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