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.
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.
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.

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