November 2005

Cheltenham-based writer Sara-Jane Arbury will hold a series of workshops for budding writers in libraries across the County after Herefordshire Council secured funding from Arts Council England for a new project.

Ross Market House Heritage Centre is getting into the Christmas spirit by staging a bonanza of activities throughout the festive season.

Herefordshire Council is introducing a number of new parking measures in Ross-on-Wye aimed at freeing up the town and making it safer for motorists and pedestrians.

Hereford City centre’s £2 million High Town refurbishment scheme will go under the spotlight during a public meeting next month (December).

Festive revellers can walk off their Christmas pudding as part of Herefordshire’s annual Winter Walking Festival 2005.

Work on a new £170,000 Children’s Centre in Hereford is complete and to help tailor services to community needs, staff are staging an open day for families, parents and residents.

Well-known historian, garden writer, lecturer, critic and columnist Sir Roy Strong will officially launch a £226,000 project tracing Ledbury’s forgotten past.

Artists, organisers and visitors - voting with their feet and wallets - all agree that this year’s h.Art Herefordshire Art Week was a huge success.

A new micro-brewery has opened on top of Offa's Dyke in Trefonen, Nr Oswestry, with the help of a £9,800 grant from the Redundant Building Grant scheme.

Surveys have been sent to more than 3,000 households across the County seeking residents’ views on Herefordshire Council’s services.

The Leader of Herefordshire Council has reiterated his discomfort at possible plans to merge police forces across the west midlands into a single regional police force.

Spike the Sharps Snake is the last of the Streetscene Gang of animals to come to town.

On Wednesday, 19th April 2006, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will host a reception and lunch at Buckingham Palace for some of those people who will be celebrating their 80th birthday on 21st April 2006.

Herefordshire Council is leading the county in supporting this year’s International Day of Disabled People.

Senior citizens and the disabled across Herefordshire have been thrown a transport lifeline after Herefordshire Council agreed to fund a new free bus pass.

Youngsters in care across Herefordshire will be rewarded for their academic, sporting and social achievement at a special prize-giving ceremony this month.

Young couples and families across Herefordshire desperate to own or rent their own home have been thrown a lifeline thanks to the development of a new £2.5 million estate aimed at addressing the County’s affordable housing need.

Herefordshire’s historic connection to apple trees will be rekindled as part of a special initiative aimed at safeguarding and promoting the County’s heritage.

Two shop fronts in the Leominster area are in line for facelift thanks to a new grant – and now other small businesses can cash in.

Ancient Roman coins and brooches discovered in Herefordshire by local enthusiasts have gone on display at the City’s museum and art gallery.

Christmas shoppers in Hereford can escape the festive rush when Herefordshire Council launches its popular park-and-ride service this weekend.

Shoppers, traders and visitors can now voice their opinions on the trial pedestrianisation of Widemarsh Street over the Internet as Herefordshire Council launches its newly upgraded website.

Belmont Library could be open for an extra three hours a week under proposals currently being considered by Herefordshire Council’s Libraries Service.

Plans for a new £1 million-plus NHS dentistry centre in Leominster, which will look after more than 11,000 patients, have gone on display at the town’s Info Shop, in Corn Square.

As the days shorten and nights draw in road safety experts at Herefordshire Council have issued a warning to all road users – especially cyclists and children.

A major engineering project to protect the town centre of Ross-on-Wye from a repeat of the devastating floods of 2000 has taken a huge step forward.

Every single household across the County will have an opportunity to have their say on the trial pedestrianisation of Widemarsh Street in Hereford City Centre when nearly 80,000 copies of Herefordshire Matters are delivered next week.

During the half term, nearly 100 young people from across the county came together at Ledbury Youth Centre to take part in Artsfest, organised by Herefordshire Council’s Community Youth Services.

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has dismissed an appeal by S&A Property Ltd and has ordered that a utility building to service a mini village which houses more than 1,000 seasonal fruit pickers in Herefordshire is brought down.

Over 400 year 10 pupils will be attending an exciting programme of talks and workshops encouraging young people to think of enterprise as their path to future prosperity. 

Children and parents will join staff of the nursery at Ledbury Primary School when Councillor Don Rule, Cabinet Member, Children’s Services, will officially open the new purpose-built facility on Wednesday November 9.

British Featherweight Boxing Champion Darren ‘Dazzo’ Williams will officially switch on Hereford City’s Christmas lights this year.

Nationally-acclaimed crime writer Ann Cleeves will be special guest of honour during a murder mystery evening at Ross-on-Wye Library next month.

Builders merchants and warehouses across Hereford have been targeted as part of a health and safety drive aimed at reducing the number of accidents in the workplace.