A private coach company is to axe all its regular bus services in the Bishops Castle area, leaving many elderly people and those without Cars stranded in south-west Shropshire.
Seven days after telling the Journal he did not expect to appear in the more sensational columns of the Daily Telegraph on the subject of his expenses, Leominster Tory MP Bill Wiggin was forced to admit he had claimed a total of more than £11,000 during 23 consecutive months on the wrong house.
The boss is back in town, as John Davies, former sidelined owner of top soft fruit growers the S&A Group – who had been asked to step aside by Lloyds Bank in April – returned to the fold this week at the company HQ at Brooks Farm, Marden.
Plans to reopen Hereford’s prestigious Left Bank restaurant and conference centre will take another step forward tomorrow (Thursday) when managers hold a Recruitment Day at the riverside complex.
Improvements to sports and leisure facilities, including moves to open a cinema, traffic and parking, and the cleanliness and appearance of the town are to be the main priorities during his year of office, says the new Mayor of Ross-on-Wye.
Answering criticism of ‘insufficient communication’, Ross Sports & Leisure Federation is to hold more open meetings.
The news of yet another refusal of its plans for a swimming pool in the town has brought a sharp response from Bromyard and District Swimming Pool Trust.
A town councillor is backing parents’ calls for money to be spent on childrens’ play areas on two residential estates in Ledbury as the county council earmarks funding which residents fear could just be allocated to the out-of-town recreation ground.
A writer and researcher who tapped into some of the Kray twins’ darkest secrets could be among buyers at today’s “bizarre” sale of memorabilia in Leominster dating back to their infamous reign of fear and corruption in 1960s gangland London.
Villagers in a tiny North Herefordshire community are on the lookout for a brave Second World War veteran who was involved in the D-Day landings back in 1944.
The church of St John of Jerusalem at Ford is to host a traditional two-day flower festival which starts on the anniversary of D-Day, June 6.
As part of the celebrations there will be a special commemoration of the epic Normandy landings.
And festival organisers are keen to track down a D-Day veteran in order to help the villagers pay tribute to all those who took part in what was to be the largest amphibious invasion of all time when more than 130,000 troops landed on French beaches.
“It’s exactly 65 years since D-Day and we’re looking for a veteran,” explains churchwarden Olwen Helme.
“An appeal is being made from the village through the Royal British Legion.
“We’d really like to find a veteran from the old Herefordshire regiment,” she continues. “These heroes really deserve a mention.”
