A purpose-built complex for the elderly in Ledbury is costing Herefordshire Council £3,000 a week as well as having accumulated £240,000 in other costs – while almost half of the accommodation remains empty.
The future of education in Bromyard was up for debate last week at another extraordinary public meeting at the Queen Elizabeth Humanities College.
Fears that serious illnesses could develop at Leominster as a result of air pollution from heavy traffic are driving town councillors to press their calls for a relief road.
Hopes of securing a £10,000 boost for Leominster Festival over the next two years have crumbled.
Tribute has been paid to a Leominster police officer for his efforts in dealing with worrying incidents involving large groups of youths in the town.
Two off duty Leominster nurses came to the assistance of a cyclist who was seriously injured when he was in collision with a car near Hereford.
An Army pay clerk stole 200,000 US dollars of public funds from an SAS cash office at the regiment’s Hereford HQ – and hid it in a flowerpot, an Army court martial heard on Monday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s post was boosted last week with a special delivery by hand, as members of Herefordshire’s Save Our Post Offices campaign took the issue all the way to Downing Street.
Customers who may have seen a man pin a woman by her throat against the wall of a busy city wine bar, forcing her to drop her drinks glass before she broke free, are being asked to come forward by Hereford police.
Anti-social behaviour in Ross-on-Wye is falling, say police, because of a new “no nonsense” approach to policing inspired by a tough talking inspector who also aims to make the town a no go area for criminals.
