January 2006

Shoppers are being advised that it is business as usual in Widemarsh Street.

Herefordshire Council’s Cabinet gave the scheme to pedestrianise Widemarsh Street the go-ahead when it met on Thursday, January 26.

Herefordshire’s heritage will be made more accessible to schoolchildren, visitors and researchers thanks to a  £703,000 cash injection from Herefordshire Council.

Strawberry producer S&A Property Ltd has appealed a decision to remove a utility building, sewerage works and road network which services more than 1,000 seasonal fruit pickers at Brierley Court Farm, in Leominster, north Herefordshire.

Specialist work to remove silt and reduce the unpleasant smells emitted at Hereford’s ancient Castle Pool is expected to start within weeks.

Ross Heritage Centre will stage a bonanza of fun activities over the half-term holiday next month.

The former Minister of Transport and London Mayoral candidate Steven Norris taste-tested Herefordshire’s school dinners during a recent visit to the county – and hailed the £1.50 meal a culinary success.

Widemarsh Street could be fully pedestrianised before Easter if Councillors agree to back the scheme.

A 34-year-old Herefordshire farmer has been ordered to pay more than £11,000 for deceiving cattle buyers and risking public health by misdescribing cattle he sold at a market in Ross-on-Wye.

In 2006, h.Art Herefordshire Art Week reaches its fifth birthday. The event, which grows in popularity every year, will run from September 9 - 17.

Young people will be able to stand for election and vote for the first time under plans to create a Youth Council in Herefordshire.

Water babies in the north of the county make a big splash when the new pool at Leominster was officially declared open on Saturday, January 14.

The Community Services Scrutiny Committee has recommended that a form of pedestrianisation in Widemarsh Street in Hereford City Centre be approved

There’s more good news for Herefordshire people who can’t afford their own home because of the high cost of housing.

A business boost for Ross-on-Wye is on the cards after Herefordshire Council decided to introduce free parking at the Wilton Road car park all year round.

Plans for the Rotherwas Access Road move one step closer to fruition today (Tuesday, January 10) with the opening of a Public Inquiry into the Compulsory Purchase and Side Road Orders.

In the same week that Olympic swimming medallist Duncan Goodhew called for an end to the closure of swimming pools, Herefordshire Council announced the official opening of its new £2.5 million pool.

The number of people using Hereford’s Christmas Park and Ride scheme, set up by Herefordshire Council, topped 4,200.

A huge 2.2m long sturgeon, caught in the River Wye in Herefordshire 160 years ago, has made a lengthy overland journey to Ipswich to undergo conservation work by specialist natural history conservator, Dominique Rogers.

Hereford’s historic Judge’s Coach is to benefit from a conservation grant from the Museums, Libraries and Archives council for the West Midlands, so will get an early spring clean before it goes on view in the city’s Cathedral.