Herefordshire Journals

Trewick is sacked

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:51:51 +0000

Just over 48 hours after their 2-0 home defeat at the hands of Macclesfield, Hereford United sacked manager John Trewick.

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Lucs in refund call after match called off

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:49:35 +0000

Officials from Luctonians Rugby Club have hit out at Bedford Athletic after they failed to raise a side for Saturday’s visit to Mortimer Park, citing injuries and a lack of availability.

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Wyesiders come back from brink

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:46:24 +0000

Hereford Rugby Club completed a splendid second half fightback to overturn a 16-point interval deficit and beat hosts Kettering 18-16.

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Dave’s tears as county rallies to his cause

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:43:04 +0000

A Herefordshire town’s fight to help a much-loved local man with terminal cancer, who has himself helped to raise thousands of pounds for charity over many years, is gathering an extraordinary momentum across the county.

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‘Lowest’ council tax rise ahead

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:36:14 +0000

Herefordshire Council has approved what it says is the lowest per centage council tax rise in its history.

The increase of 2.54 per cent takes a Band D property to £1,205.09 per month from April.

It is also below the average council level for the country, say the authority.

The council balanced its books last year for the seventh year running and achieved £5.6 million in savings for the next financial year.

Councillors heard it had allocated an extra £1.5 million in capital and extra reserves for road maintenance, following the worst cold spell in the county for 30 years.
Herefordshire, with its contractor Amey, is filling in 200 potholes a day, dealing with the most urgent first but allocating £3.7 million over the next 12 months to bring roads up to repair and resurfacing the road network.

Council leader Roger Phillips said the impact of any rise on local communities was recognised.

However, the county was facing huge pressures in providing more social care for vulnerable and older people as well as facing more costs for child protection.

The numbers of people receiving intensive home care has risen by 25 per cent in two years. An extra £500,000 in contingency was being allocated for social care in the next financial year.

Councillor Phillips announced that he expected soon to hear details of the new dedicated schools grant funding formula from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Herefordshire Council has been lobbying for a fairer deal for schools, as the county gets just over £4,000 funding per pupil from government, compared with the national average of nearly £4,400.

The county is fighting for government recognition of the higher overheads providing education in sparsely populated areas.

Herefordshire people get £317 each from the central government formula grant, which is 17 per cent less funding per head of population than the average for similar authorities, despite the fact that public services are more expensive to provide in rural settings.

Housing boss denies ‘rot’ claims

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:17 +0000

Rumours among Herefordshire Housing tenants that properties will be “left to rot” because of the city’s regeneration plans have been firmly refuted by the group’s chief executive Peter Brown.

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14 step up to fight centre closure

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:33:18 +0000

The fight to save the Tudorville Youth Centre from being closed has taken another important step forward.

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New wheels for responder team

Cath Waring — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:23:18 +0000

Leominster Community First Responders, a dedicated team of trained volunteers often first on the scene to provide emergency life support, have a brand new set of wheels.

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Have you seen Ros?

Cath Waring — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:42:45 +0000

Police have renewed their appeal for information on a Hereford woman who will have been missing for a month this Friday.

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Ellie’s CD flies off store’s shelves

Cath Waring — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:35:26 +0000

Herefordshire’s homegrown star Ellie Goulding continues her meteoric rise to fame with the release of her debut full-length album Lights this week, at the same time her single Starry Eyed raced into the charts at number four.

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