June 2006
29 June 2006
Herefordshire Council is putting the kettle on for a celebration cuppa.
29 June 2006
Hereford’s Victoria Bridge is well on the path to recovery.
28 June 2006
Twenty-two Herefordshire Schools have developed School Travel Plans this year, which have approved by Herefordshire Council.
26 June 2006
Herefordshire Council may be interested in putting a mouse into your church and a keyboard into your pub, if you live off the beaten track.
26 June 2006
Herefordshire libraries are inspiring young people to read their way through the school holidays in a top-secret Summer Reading Challenge.
26 June 2006
A Herefordshire Council employee, selected to be a national judge on the Carnegie Medal panel, has inspired the County’s pupils to exercise their literary critique skills.
26 June 2006
Herefordshire Council has announced that work on a £8-million new school for Hereford, which will merge Hunderton infants and junior schools, will go ahead in the autumn.
26 June 2006
Herefordshire Council will reaffirm its objections to the creation of a single police force for the West Midlands at its next cabinet meeting this Thursday, June 29.
26 June 2006
If you want to know how to preserve your old family photographs for generations to come, you need to get along to three “conservation surgeries” to be held at Herefordshire Council’s Record Office.
26 June 2006
In line with other local authorities, Herefordshire Council’s Environmental Health Officers have been contacting shops to ensure shelves have been cleared of a range of Cadbury chocolate products.
23 June 2006
Herefordshire Council is warning people not to buy or eat a range of Cadbury chocolate products that were recalled today (23 June 2006) after concerns they may be contaminated with salmonella.
20 June 2006
Hailed as the beginning of a new era of working together in the County and the blueprint for local service provision until the year 2020, Herefordshire’s new Community Strategy will be unveiled on Tuesday, June 27.
20 June 2006
The wraps have come of an ambitious strategy to help Herefordshire become greener and play its part to cut the amount greenhouse gases it produces.
20 June 2006
When teenager Jean Whittingham became a regular visitor to Ross Library the magazine racks were full of stories about President Kennedy and the new film sensation West Side Story.
20 June 2006
A major review of the existing parking regulations in Ledbury has taken place and been the subject of public consultation since last year.
20 June 2006
In preparation for the inaugural Flavours of Herefordshire Food Festival (October 21/22, 2006) staff from Visit Herefordshire are laying out a substantial appetizer at the Hay Food Festival on Saturday June 24.
19 June 2006
A new website is giving migrant workers in Herefordshire a snapshot of what life is like in the county – in their own language.
19 June 2006
Herefordshire’s Museum Development Officer, Virginia Mayes-Wright, based at Herefordshire Council’s Museum Resource and Learning Centre has been invited to give a paper at the European Museum Advisors Conference in Budapest.
14 June 2006
Libraries in Hereford, Ledbury, Leominster and Ross plan to become extensions to Buckingham Palace on Saturday June 24!
13 June 2006
For the last nine months, the Courtyard Arts Centre has played host to Hereford’s Poetry Café.
13 June 2006
Pedestrians in Hereford City Centre will have one thing less to think about when an experimental order stopping cars entering Widemarsh Street via Bewell Street between 10.30am and 4.30pm comes into force.
12 June 2006
Following the success of the recent litter-pick by the Ross-on-Wye Cub Group, the baton has been passed to the Cubs and Scouts of Hereford.
12 June 2006
While many local authorities across the country are overspending, Herefordshire Council has released a better-than-expected budget report for the 2005/06 financial year – under-spending by £3.7 million.
12 June 2006
As the summer break beckons, there’s an exciting roundup of holiday activities for young people to enjoy.
12 June 2006
Herefordshire Council Parks & Countryside Service is set to help you meet one of your ‘five-a-day’ healthy eating targets and celebrate your local heritage, by giving you the opportunity to source and grow one of the County’s old varieties of apple trees as part of this year’s Fruit Tree Kit Scheme.
12 June 2006
A new name for Herefordshire Jarvis Services along with quarterly reports on its performance are two recommended actions to come out of a detailed review which saw the joint venture company go under the spotlight.
12 June 2006
Poetry at a youth club? It’s not, perhaps, something you would expect – but this Saturday, June 17, poetry will be brought to life, acted out and recorded on video at Bromyard Youth Club.
12 June 2006
To launch Food Safety week, and in response to new Food Safety Legislation, Herefordshire Council’s Environmental Health Commercial Team has presented four free Food Safety Seminars to small catering businesses in the county.
09 June 2006
Herefordshire Council has issued a stern warning to unscrupulous car dealers who sell “clocked” cars.
09 June 2006
If you would like to restore an old orchard, have a hedgerow in serious need of some management or some other landscape-biodiversity enhancing project in mind then the Herefordshire Council Parks & Countryside Service may be able to help you.
09 June 2006
There’s one more chance for county people to have a say on an important document which provides guidance on how and when Herefordshire Council consults them in relation to planning applications and planning policy matters.
08 June 2006
Councillor Brian Wilcox is out to peddle a positive message about the benefits of cycling in Hereford.
07 June 2006
The Hereford City Shop Front Grant scheme, launched in November 2004, has just extended its boundaries to include the whole of the City Conservation Area.
06 June 2006
The detailed plan which sets out the use that land can be put to in Herefordshire has moved another step closer to becoming finalised.
05 June 2006
One of Europe’s greenest new school opens its doors this Wednesday, June 7, in Hereford. The new Whitecross High School and Specialist Sports College will welcome its 900 pupils – many of whom helped in its design to ensure it will be a national flagship for renewable energy use.
05 June 2006
Herefordshire Council, a local MP and a bus operator agreed a simple solution after a resident complained that schoolchildren were alighting from a bus apparently in the middle of a busy road in Hereford.
05 June 2006
With the help of the Journal, Herefordshire Council’s new recruitment process successfully cleared the launch-pad in late April and is now speeding through a constellation of job applications.
02 June 2006
Work has begun to restore the historic Market House in the centre of Ledbury. The work, which has been commissioned by Ledbury Town Council, should be completed by September 2006.
09 June 2006
The Community Strategy, which replaces the former Herefordshire Plan, sets the blueprint for local service provision until 2020.
Come along to our Launch on 27th June at Whitecross School between 4 - 8 pm, collect your copy, find out what local people think are the key issues facing the County, and see examples of projects being undertaken to make life healthier, wealthier and safer for Herefordshire!
05 June 2006
As part of National Volunteers’ Week, Herefordshire Council is highlighting the contribution that volunteers make to the quality of life in the county, and the huge range of exciting and fulfilling volunteering opportunities that are available.
