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Thoughtless cut that ended hopes for a mighty giant
HALF a mile from my home is one of those spots in the landscape, at the junction of two lanes, that needs a big arching tree to frame the view. Doubtless 100 years ago there would have been one growing there; 11 years ago I planted an oak tree, with the
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Praise for Bishop's lead over terrorism
WELL done to the Bishop of Hereford, for his line on terrorism and the recent London Bombings. I was delighted to read what I have felt for a long time, in the article about religion and terrorism, (Hereford Times, September 1). The Bishop made the point
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Plea to learn lip reading
"WATCH my lips" can mean much more to some people than others. For the deaf or hard of hearing might not hear the words but clearly understand their meaning. Lip reading can do much to make life easier for people with a hearing problem. There are more
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Make a beeline...
THE packed house that enjoyed The Burning Bush at Ludlow Assembly Rooms in February should make a beeline for the September 16 concert by the Polish klezmer group Kroke. It will be a different style of Jewish music, combining a number of influences with
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Leominster Civic Trust
LEOMINSTER Civic Trust is pleased to announce its Autumn programme. All meetings take place on Monday evenings starting at 7.30 and located at the Talbot Hotel in Leominster. Everyone is welcome to attend. September 12 - a talk by Ken Durnell, chairman
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The Roaring Forty?
FORTY young people, sponsored by Lions clubs from all over the world in the Lions Youth Exchange Programme, are in England to experience the culture and see what it is like to live with an English family. Coming from countries as far apart as Denmark
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Ledbury leads the way for home win
HEREFORDSHIRE CBA entertained Wiltshire BA for their annual match at Hereford and achieved a 119-107 victory with each team having three winning rinks. Vince Ledbury skipped the home team's highest winning rink to a fine victory, outbowling their opponents
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Hereford women earn the placings
HEREFORD Triathlon Club had an excellent turnout of 14 at the annual Black Country Olympic Triathlon, but it was the women who grabbed the silverware. The first Hereford athlete to finish the Cannock course was Colin Kerfoot who managed the one-mile lake
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Louise produces top finish for three-star victory
LOUISE Skelton moved up from 17th place after the dressage to win the three-star international trials at Blair Castle on her mount, Partly Pickled. It was a three-day triumph for the Herefordshire rider who climbed to second after being one of only two
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Family in class first
MOTHER and daughter Mandy and Emma Reddock from Monkland scored a significant victory at the annual British Driving Society Championship Show at Burleigh by winning the inaugural Exercise Vehicle Class, one of the most important BDS classes of the season
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Irish raider takes Boughrood spoils
THE hugely popular Boughrood fixture under BHRC rules attracted plenty of both competitors and spectators, and the 15-race card was packed with red-hot action. Teifion Thomas' Tommy's Bizzie, the hero of the previous week's Ammanford £1,000 Final, did
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Luctonians kick-off with National Trophy success
Luctonians 44 pts Spalding 25 LUCTONIANS made a successful start to the campaign by beating Midlands 2 East side Spalding in the in the first round of the new Powergen National Trophy. The home side applied early pressure but were unable to capitalise
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Plough for victory
MEMORIES will be flashing back to the wartime years of 1939 to 1945 at a local ploughing match being held later this month. All day on Sunday, September 18, the atmosphere of wartime agriculture will be celebrated in a big way at the same time as Llangattock
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Action call as livestock farmers fear for future
LIVESTOCK farmers along the banks of the River Wye in Herefordshire face financial hardship because of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, says research commissioned on behalf of the Wye Valley Graziers. Working with the valley's Area of Outstanding
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Oz beckons to farm student Scott
JETTING off on a trip of a lifetime next Tuesday is Little Birch farm student Scott Millar. The 22-year-old from Lower House Farm will be spending the next seven months finding out what life is like Down Under when he lives and works on a 7,000-hectare
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The crowd's well pleased by Shaw
MALVERN'S theatres have witnessed plenty of GBS plays in their time - but few can have been so delightfully accessible as Sir Peter Hall's current production of You Never Can Tell. True this is Bernard Shaw as crowd-pleaser - as he himself says in his
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Hereford let in weak rivals
Stratford 24 pts Hereford 20 HEREFORD chairman Guy Griffiths was downcast after his side suffered a surprise defeat in their opening Midlands 3 West (South) clash of the season. "If Hereford can not beat a poor side then it does not look good for the
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Gwynne adds Ross title to county senior success
GWYNNE Morgan made it a year to remember when he won the Ross-on-Wye Senior Champ-ionship, having previously taken the Herefordshire Senior title earlier this year at Wormsley. Six-handicapper Morgan carded a splendid gross 75 for a two-shot winning margin
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Ali blows away county rivals as Brockhampton move up table
BROCKHAMPTON took over as the Division 1's leading Herefordshire side in the Crusader Worcestershire County League with an eight-wicket crushing of local rivals Luctonians. The villagers move into second place in the table, ahead of Kington. The border
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Jones spins out five to clinch league title
MONMOUTH are the Flint & Cook Marches League Division 1 champions for the third successive season after a 47-run win over Talgarth. In a match played at the picturesque Llanarth ground due to the unavailability of Monmouth Sports Centre, which was
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Monmouth record third double success
MONMOUTH made it a double on Sunday for the third year in succession when they carried off the Advantage Business Supplies Marches Knockout Cup to add to their Flint & Cook Marches League Division 1 title success of the day before. But the champions
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Villagers finish with a flourish
EWYAS Harold and Woolhope 2nd have both ended the season with some silverware after carrying off the Flint & Cook Marches League Division 5 and 6 cups respectively. In the Division 5 final, Bryan Caffelle (26) and Chris Price (19) gave Lads Club a
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Wormelow make it ten-from-ten finish
WORMELOW made it 10 wins from 10 this season when they captured the Herefordshire Youth Under-13 League title with a 35-run play-off win over Kington at Bromyard. The villagers had won all nine of their league matches to qualify for the final, scoring
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Cricket Scorecards in Brief
CRUSADER WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY LEAGUE Division 1 Kington 92 (R Goodman 17, S Williams 15, M Powell 10. Shahid Ahmed 5-47, Adeel 3-31) Eastnor 95-3 (S Fortey 31, Arshad 29) Luctonians 87 (M Lowden 27, W Hicks 20, D Platford 15. M Ali 7-27, H Langford 2
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Winning start
HEREFORD Ladies made a winning start to the hockey season when their second team beat Whitchurch Saints 2-1 with their goals coming from Dwyn Jones and Anna Oliver.
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Wellington fightback capped by Panniers' winner
Wellington 3 Gloucester City 2 A SUPERB fight-back earned Wellington all three Midland Floodlit Youth League Southern Division points. Gloucester began at a fast pace, taking the lead after just five minutes and extending their advantage just before the
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Foreign players have added to the English game
THERE has been some criticism over the arrival of so many foreign players in this country, taking places of young players coming through. The argument can be put forward that at the very top level, with international players coming across, they have improved
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What's on in city and county
Events/talks Sep 8 Arthritis Research Campaign, Talk by Derek Trumper on the Garter ceremony and Windsor Castle, College Hall, The Cloisters, 7pm. 01432 355607. 8 Inland Revenue Tax Surgery, Age Concern, Leominster, 9.30am-3pm. 01568 611054. 9 Heritage
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Pegasus mark home debut with first FA Cup success
Pegasus Juniors 3 Teversal 2 ALMOST 200 spectators saw Pegasus mark their first game at Old School Lane - and their home FA Cup debut - with a First Qualifying Round replay win against their Nottinghamshire opponents. Pegasus made a poor start, falling
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Kington Town 1 Pelsall Villa 4 MISTAKES in defence cost the Kington youngsters dearly as fellow str
Coalville 1 Westfields 0 WESTFIELDS are still searching for their first Midland Alliance away win after returning empty-handed from their 200-mile round trip to Leicestershire. The city side defended well but struggled in attack where the twin strike-force
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Sherlock's bizarre late goal seals victory for Ross
Ross Town 3 Malmesbury Victoria 2 A BIZARRE late goal from Andy Sherlock clinched a first GLS Hellenic League Division 1 South win for Ross. A defender tried to clear a Simon Gwilliam cross but his attempted clearance hit Sherlock's back and bounced into
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Five goals to start
Studley Ladies 2 Pegasus Ladies 5 PEGASUS got their West midland Regional Women's Football League Division 1 South campaign off to a winning start after falling behind to an early Rachel Hopkins goal. Julie Nicholas forced home a Simone Quinn pass to
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Shaping up to the real countryside
THE Hereford Times reported (August 4) that a UK firm was selling spray on mud to help owners of 4x4 vehicles who wanted to look as though they had ventured off road - even though they had gone nowhere near the countryside. A 75cl bottle cost £7.95 and
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Cotswold Line Group
FOR the first time in six years, the Cotswold Line Promotion Group (CLPG) is running a special train from Hereford, Ledbury and Colwall to offer passengers a day out in the popular West Country resorts of Torquay and Paignton. The 2,000 strong group,
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Strikers held as Fields go down
Coalville 1 Westfields 0 WESTFIELDS are still searching for their first Midland Alliance away win after returning empty-handed from their 200-mile round trip to Leicestershire. The city side defended well but struggled in attack where the twin strike-force
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More hits than Man Utd
M AND M Sports Ltd, the Leominster-based leading UK online and mail order retailer says it is "experiencing unparalleled success online". The company, that specialises in discounted branded sports, leisure, outdoor and fashion goods has been monitored
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Father and son dominate championship meeting
SCOTT AND Roger Moran scored a remarkable double when they dominated two rounds of the Nicholson McLaren British Hill Climb Championship at Prescott. Twenty-eight-year-old Scott survived a problem with a deflating front tyre to qualify for the first run-off
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Whitecross' best season of decade
WHITECROSS Men completed their most successful season in 10 years, with both the A and B teams securing promotion in the Herefordshire & Worcestershitre LTA Summer Leagues. Chairman Matthew White said: "We are very pleased to have achieved this major
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Youngster fastest up steep hill
HEREFORD Wheelers held their annual Hill Climb at Capler Hill near Fownhope when five competitors faced the unforgiving steep gradient. The weather was perfect and the youngest rider from Climb on Bikes, Ewan Short, stormed up the hill in a time of 2
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Conditions restrict catches
CONDITIONS were not ideal for Hereford Fly Fishing Club's bank fishing competition at Cantree Reservoir, Glamorgan. The 42-acre lake is set high in the Brecon Beacons, surrounded by woodlands, and is stocked with both brown and rainbow trout. But a hot
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County stud gains world double
MONNINGTON Morgans have become the first stud farm in Europe to win a title at the Saddlebred World Championship Horse Show in Louisville, Kentucky. More than 2,000 horses took part in the seven-day championships and the Monnington stud from Herefordshire
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Hereford let in weak rivals
Stratford 24 pts Hereford 20 HEREFORD chairman Guy Griffiths was downcast after his side suffered a surprise defeat in their opening Midlands 3 West (South) clash of the season. "If Hereford can not beat a poor side then it does not look good for the
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Welcome to Hereford, Mr Darcy
HEREFORDIANS have to be patient when anticipated box office hits are released - but not this week. Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightly, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn and Dame Judy Dench, is to receive a special screening at the city's Odeon
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Glorious summer performance captivates the young, the old, the romantic and the patriotic
AS the Malvern Hills darkened into silhouette at the end of a glorious summer's day and the strains of Elgar's Enigma Variations rose you could hear the sigh of contentment that ran round the capacity audience in the Three Counties Showground. Family
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Consider yourself... one of us
CHARLES Dickens was 25 when he wrote Oliver and Nickolai Foster, who is directing the production of the same name at Hereford Courtyard, is equally miraculously young. Miraculous because of the number of characters which each has had to keep in his head
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Bulls in fitness tests before revenge bid
HEREFORD United have to overcome a mini injury crisis in the lead-up to Saturday's important Nationwide Conference clash with Stevenage Borough at Broadhall Way. Alex Jeannin, Adam Stansfield, Guy Ipoua and Jon Brady were all missing from training in
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Home pairings lead capacity field in mixed open
A CAPACITY field of over 250 golfers took full advantage of the sunshine and excellent conditions to produce some fine scoring in the Herefordshire GC Mixed Greensome Stableford Open. Home pairings took the top prizes with Cliff and Sue Mawby posting
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Sheep Music put out to grass
Presteigne's Sheep Music Festival is to graze Wentes Meadow no more. Festival director Pete Smith has announced its closure. "It has been decided that the festival has reached a natural conclusion and rather than drift into a formula event with high ticket
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Bartestree earn place in top section of league
ALTHOUGH Bartestree & Lugwardine suffered a 40-run defeat in their last match of the season against Hereford City, their haul of 10 points ensured a first crack at top flight cricket in the Flint & Cook Marches League next season. The villagers
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Bromyard prevent double success
Wormelow's hopes of clinching a double success were dashed by Bromyard who romped home by 10 wickets in the Under-11 final to complete their 11th victory in 12 outings in the Herefordshire Youth League. Wormelow were restricted to just 60-6 from their
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Almeley
WHIST CLUB - Whist players will be pleased to know that the autumn season will begin in Almeley Village Hall, on Tuesday, September 20. Play begins at 7.45pm. CINEMA - Flicks in the Sticks returns to Almeley Village Hall on Thursday, September 29 withThe
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Art in the landscape
h.Art this year includes an outdoor painting workshop on a beautiful National Trust farm. The day will be led by Richard Bavin who ran Art in the Woods last year and is one of the artists featured in this year's h.Art Open Exhibition. The workshop is
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Defensive mistakes send Kington to bottom
Kington Town 1 Pelsall Villa 4 MISTAKES in defence cost the Kington youngsters dearly as fellow strugglers Pelsall took full advantage to push their hosts down to bottom place in a very competitive West Midlands League Premier Division match. Although
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Wellington fightback capped by Panniers' winner
Wellington 3 Gloucester City 2 A SUPERB fight-back earned Wellington all three Midland Floodlit Youth League Southern Division points. Gloucester began at a fast pace, taking the lead after just five minutes and extending their advantage just before the
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Promise in defeat
Worcester City Ladies Res 7 Leominster Town Ladies 3 LEOMINSTER'S first excursion into adult ladies' football brought a promising display in spite of a defeat in the Kidder-minster Women's County League. The young Leomin-ster side showed some early nerves
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Goalless first
Gloucestershire FA 0 Herefordshire FA 0 THIS long-standing early season under-18 representative fixture ended goalless for the first time ever. Liam Jones and Jason Evans had the best chances for Herefordshire in a first half which was mostly confined
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Bulls in fitness tests before revenge bid
HEREFORD United have to overcome a mini injury crisis in the lead-up to Saturday's important Nationwide Conference clash with Stevenage Borough at Broadhall Way. Alex Jeannin, Adam Stansfield, Guy Ipoua and Jon Brady were all missing from training in
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Perrott roars to rally win for second time
LEOMINSTER driver John Perrott won the Ludlow-based Woodpecker Rally by just one second in a remarkably close finish after 45 miles of forest stages. Perrott and co-driver Shelley Rogerson (Mitsubishi Evo 5) held off the challenge of Birmingham's Simon
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FA Cup glory bid by city duo
BOTH Westfields and Pegasus Juniors will be bidding for FA Cup glory in second qualifying round ties on Saturday. Pegasus face a tough trip to Matlock Town and Westfields entertain Belper Town. Matlock finished in a mid-table position last term in the
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Luctonians drawn against league rivals
LUCTONIANS have been drawn at home to North Midlands rugby rivals Bromsgrove in the second round of the new Powergen National Trophy. Luctonians gained a 44-25 home victory over Spalding last Saturday, while Bromsgrove trounced Midlands 1 rivals Whitchurch
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Irie awaits selectors' choice for Games
HEREFORD pole-vaulter Irie Hill will spend the weekend on tenter-hooks before the England team for next year's Commonwealth Games is announced on Monday. German-born Hill captured a bronze medal for England at the Manchester Common-wealth Games of 2002