Saturday, 4th July 2009

Mayor pledges ‘proper’ town

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.

Dialogue urged by sports chairman

Answering criticism of ‘insufficient communication’, Ross Sports & Leisure Federation is to hold more open meetings.

Lorry raiders’ drinks bill

Thieves stole eight pallets of Lucozade sports drink, valued at £11,500, from the back of a lorry while the driver slept in his cab.

Hunt for driver who left victim trapped

A woman was trapped in her car and needed rescuing by firemen after being run off the road by another driver who drove off without stopping.

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D-Day trip to collect medal

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Next month the country will celebrate the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy – and 86-year-old local war veteran Peter Davies will travel to France to collect a medal as one of the surviving veterans of the invasion.

Farming family fortunes turn

A couple have revitalised their family business – from a small dairy farm struggling to break even on the price of its milk to the sweet success of an award-winning ice cream producer and tourist centre.

Robyn’s farewell

A community organisation is waving goodbye to a popular employee, as it campaigns to retain one of the projects she helped build up.

Steve sets own marathon record

It may have been a Kenyan crossing the finish line first in Sunday’s London Marathon, but Steve Macdonald was one of those celebrating a personal triumph.

One right makes expensive wrong

Errant motorists who ignore the ‘No Right Turn’ signs and insist on turning right from Camp Road into Alton Road in Ross-on-Wye, will be fined £30, warns the police commander for South Herefordshire.

Clubhouse burgled twice

Brazen thieves who targeted a rural Herefordshire golf club twice in one night, stole alcohol worth over £500.
Concho Y Toro wine worth £450 was taken when thieves broke into the Burghill Valley Golf Club at around 11.30pm on April 3.