January 2007

A planning application from the Duchy of Cornwall to build a replacement home at Harewood Park, Harewood End, Herefordshire has been approved by Herefordshire Council.

Herefordshire Council is seeking the views of city residents over plans for a cycleway between Yazor Brook and the playground on Grandstand Road.

Children, staff and parents at Leintwardine Endowed Church School are celebrating following the publication of an inspection report, which judged the school to be outstanding.

Young people from across the county have been telling Herefordshire Youth Council what changes they would like to see locally and nationally.

Herefordshire Council is to open its new customer service centre in Hereford on Monday 19 February.

Herefordshire has been battered by some of the worst storms in recent years. Winds gusting up to 80mph caused damage to many trees.

Staff, children and governors at Gorsley Goffs Endowed Primary School in Ross on Wye are celebrating following the success of a recent church inspection.

An exclusive exhibition dedicated to one of Britain’s most influential designers, Dr Christopher Dresser, opens at Hereford Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday (January 20) and runs until March 3, 2007. The exhibition is called Christopher Dresser and the Art and Craft of Design.

Herefordshire’s first No Cold Calling Zone at Gorsley, near Ross-on-Wye, has been officially launched in a joint campaign by trading standards and the police to protect residents from rogue traders and distraction burglary. 

News that the legal minimum age for buying tobacco is to rise from 16 to 18 years of age has been welcomed by health, education and enforcement agencies in Herefordshire.

Herefordshire's looked after children, also known as children in care, get better education results that any other looked after children in the country.

Herefordshire Council’s community services scrutiny committee has determined that the council’s favoured site for Hereford’s new livestock market is the right one.

If you live in or around Hereford and you want to register a birth, marriage or death, you need to head for the Town Hall in St Owen Street from tomorrow, Tuesday, January 16.

The search is on for young people willing to get involved in local decision-making and stand for this year’s Herefordshire Youth Council elections.

Herefordshire residents are being urged to have their say on a major consultation launched by the West Midlands Regional Assembly.

Owners of water mills or weirs in Herefordshire are invited to a public meeting that will explore the potential of county rivers to generate green energy.