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Pedal power is a matter of courtesy
A HEREFORD garage is offering customers a courtesy bike service while their cars are being serviced. Instead of the usual replacement car, South Hereford Garages has teamed up with city retailer Climb on Bikes to offer drivers a greener alternative and
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Within £25,000 of church roof target
May I, through your column, publicly thank all those kind members of the Leominster community who have contributed to the Leominster Priory Restoration Appeal. The cost of making the lead roof watertight is estimated at £200,000 and I am pleased to
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Goggles’ great escape
THEY say cats have nine lives but there appears to be life left in one lucky old dog after an accident on a Herefordshire road. The life of Goggles, a three-legged 18-year-old Jack Russell cross, was saved after a kind passer-by stopped to pick him up
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Animal rights activist jailed
POLICE and prosecutors fought a first-of-its-kind case to convict animal rights activists targeting a Herefordshire-based research laboratory, its staff, suppliers, business partners, and even neighbours. Evidence gathered by Operation Tornado led to
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Barn dance in aid of village school fund
RESIDENTS in the King’s Caple area are invited to a barn dance tomorrow in aid of the village’s school. The dance, which takes place at Lower Penault Farm, begins at 6.30pm and will see members of the Aylestone School Ceilidh Band perform. Tickets
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Hereford draw Palace in Carling Cup
HEREFORD United have been drawn at Crystal Palace in the first round of the Carling Cup. The Bulls will visit Selhurst Park on August 12 or 13. Crystal Palace are a Championship side and managed by Neil Warnock. Last season, Hereford defeated Yeovil
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River trip pupils remember classmate
NEARLY 20 teenagers will canoe 100km down the River Wye this weekend in memory of a Herefordshire youngster. At the same age Bacton resident Laurie Engel died from a rare and aggressive form of cancer, 17 13-year-olds will spend three days
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Flowers to help pay for church improvements
A FLOWER festival and concert will help pay for improvements to a north Herefordshire church. Orleton’s Celebration of Flowers, which is being held at St George’s Church, is entitled ‘Who Put the Colours in the Rainbow?’ It will raise funds to help
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Kitchen fire in Leominster
FIRE crews were called to a flat in Leominster yesterday after reports of smoke in the kitchen. They arrived in Bridge Street at around 11.10pm to find food in the oven but no-one in the flat. Alec Mackie, press officer for the fire service, said the
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Stabbed soldier saved his own life
A SOLDIER who survived a frontline tour of Afghanistan nearly died on his first visit to Hereford when he was stabbed in what a judge called “a bloodbath”. Craig Rouse needed several hours of specialist surgery and could have lost his life, Worcester
