Sunday, 14th March 2010

Hotel hit by ’substantial’ blaze

Fire crews battled to save a prestigious hotel and restaurant near Wigmore from a blaze on Monday night which police are treating as suspicious.

Bangers win big at sausage awards

Breakfast bangers at a North Herefordshire farm shop are simply oozing with success having been judged to be best in the west.

Bangers win big at sausage awards

Breakfast bangers at a North Herefordshire farm shop are simply oozing with success having been judged to be best in the west.

D-day for Dilwyn’s school

The future of the county’s smallest primary school has come under discussion as Herefordshire Council begins a formal consultation on Dilwyn C of E Primary School.

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Green plans are a first for country

Green-minded residents in Leominster are determined  that a renewable energy project will go ahead – and be the first of its kind in the country.

On a bicycle made to view

A collection of iconic castles, country houses and outstanding landscapes from the UK have been added to Google Street View, and Berrington Hall near Leominster is now one of 20 National Trust properties and landscapes which can be explored online.

Quite a coup as dovecote becomes shop

A late 18th century Herefordshire dovecote is poised to provide what’s seen as the perfect setting for the country’s latest village shop.

Tributes to a fallen hero

Herefordshire is in mourning for  Lance Corporal Daniel Cooper, who died from his wounds after an explosion near Sangin in Helmand Province on Sunday.

‘Elvis’ death rumour is untrue

Distressed relatives of Leominster’s ‘Singing Milkman’, best known for his impersonations of Elvis, are at pains to point out that rumours circulating around the town about his state of health this week have been seriously exaggerated.

MP attacks Cadbury ‘whingers’

North Herefordshire MP Bill Wiggin has defended comments he made during a radio interview in which he labelled workers at Cadbury’s Marlbrook plant, near Leominster, as “whingers”.