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Ocle Pychard and Much Cowarne
SUNDAY LUNCH – Some of the Burley Gate Guides are travelling to Switzerland in August. In order to cover the cost of ‘extra’ activities while they are away, they are holding a fund-raising Sunday lunch at The Granary, The Green Farm, Felton, from
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Stoke Lacy
GARDEN CLUB – The Stoke Lacy and District Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale in the village hall from 2pm to 4pm on Monday. This meeting will be open to everyone and donated plants will be welcomed between 1pm and 1.30pm. The next regular
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Hereford
INTER-CHURCH PRAYER MEETINGS – During Pentecost week, from May 25 to 29, there will be a series of five interchurch prayer meetings at Christian Life Centre, Hereford, from 7.30pm to 9pm. On each evening, a different fellowship from the county
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Bishopswood
CONCERT AND COFFEE EVENING – Featuring the Drybrook Male Voice Choir, Wednesday, May 27, 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Cost is £3, including refreshments. Bishopswood Village Hall. Call 01989 763567.
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Ashperton
PARISH COUNCIL – The parish meeting for Ashperton will be held in the village hall at the earlier time of 7pm on Tuesday, May 26. It will be followed by the annual parish council meeting, and then by the parish council’s regular bimonthly meeting
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Meet at Dawn Unarmed, by Andrew Hamilton and Alan Reed
THE scenes of jubilation that saw Hereford greet the end of the First World War are chronicled in the previously unseen diary of a soldier with strong city links. The diaries of Captain Robert Hamilton, who took over the Hereford Military Detention
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Smith examining his options at Edgar Street
MIDFIELDER Ben Smith has conceded that he may have made his last appearance for Hereford United. Smith is now out-ofcontract at Edgar Street and has been offered a firm deal at another club. Had Smith made 30 League 1 starts last season, he
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Hay-on-Wye car park cash
A GROUP of Hereford United fans will man a car park at the Hay Festival to raise funds for the Macmillan Renton appeal. Anyone using the Macmillan car park, next to the festival site, can use the shuttle bus into the centre of Hay free when a valid
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Welcome move but still a fair way to go
I WELCOME the news that Herefordshire Council is to finally include glass in kerbside waste collections for the majority of people, something I have been calling for since July 2007 when I launched the Herefordshire Waste Charter. Even with this
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Kingsland
CAR BOOT SALE – On Monday, Luctonians Rugby Club, prices car/sellers £5, traders £10. Admission £1 per person includes free entry into raffle to win a prize. Time – 8am sellers, 9am buyers.
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Almeley
VILLAGE HALL – Another successful Sunday lunch took place on May 17. WHIST CLUB – The season of whist drives continues but there will only be two more before the summer break. The next one will be on Tuesday, May 26, starting at 7.45pm, followed
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Kington Market Reports
MCCARTNEYS report a good entry of 2,100 sheep and 13,000 hoggets selling to an excellent trade. Well-bred and meated hoggets between 40 and 55kg would be at market premiums and hoggets in all weight ranges would be in good demand. All hoggets forward
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Hereford Market, May 13
Spring Lambs (2,071): Excellent trade, up to £96 (40kg-240p/kg). Best prices per kilo are standard weights. Overall average 214.5p/kg, top price/head £96 for lambs grading 40kg. Prime Hoggetts (778): As the hoggs reduce in number, the trade rises
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Responding to a rush for tickets
NATIONAL panto champions Golden Valley YFC were given a huge reception when they returned to the valleys after their triumph at the Opera House at Blackpool. They had planned to give their families and locals a single performance at Kingstone
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Bodenham
FLOOD PROTECTION GROUP – The group’s next meeting will be at the Siward James Centre at 8pm on Tuesday, May 26, and will be open to all. Anyone unable to attend, or who has points to be raised, is asked to call Babs on 01568 797170.
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Hinton Reserves end term in style
HINTON Reserves finished off their title winning season by thrashing Orleton 8-2 at Broomy Hill. The city side had already clinched the Division Three title but still put on a clinical performance last Saturday. Mike Marsden scored a hat-trick
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Veteran footballers raise £7,000 for Macmillan charity
TWELVE over-40s teams from Herefordshire and Worcestershire turned back the clock to take part in the Dave Gilbert Memorial 6-a-side Football Tournament in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Despite team names such as Civil Service Geriatrics, Pegasus
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Springfield, Clifford, Herefordshire.
Springfield, Clifford, Herefordshire Agent: McCartneys Offers: £495,000 Call: 01497 820778 SPRINGFIELD is a character sixacre smallholding set in a quiet rural location on the edge of the Wye Valley. The property is believed to date back to the
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Put house in order – don't buy a new one
I WAS appalled to read the headlines in the Hereford Times dated May 7 saying ‘Council is set to spend £17m on new offices’ and to push its overall debt to more than £130m. Then to read ‘but there is no space in the scheme for a purpose-built
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Peter Manders Herefordshire Scene
TOWN and village greens are the essence of rural England and Wales, romantically linked with refreshing cucumber sandwiches while cricketers play in the lengthening shadows of a summer evening. The green is traditionally at a central location
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History of Herefordshire boxing legend
TOM Spring is one of Herefordshire's best-known sporting heroes. And now county author Jon Hurley has explored the life and times of one of the boxing legend's greatest influences in a new book on bareknuckle fighter Tom Cribb. Cribb was a world
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Hereford firm wins a landmark redevelopment contract
A HEREFORD firm has won a competition to bring a Ledbury landmark into the 21st century. Herefordshire Council has chosen Architype to lead the £2.9 million redevelopment of the Master’s House and St Katherines. The historic buildings will be
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Growing success
A ROSS-on-Wye design group won an award at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show. Connect Design Group received a bronze Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) medal for its arrangement depicting the heritage of the National Association of Flower Arranging
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Reminder to farmers
WITH sheep shearing starting, farmers are being reminded that the British Wool Marketing Board is changing its charges for collecting the wool. In the past, farmers have been charged so much a kilo in transport costs but, from this year, it will
