September 2010

Proposals to launch 'Council TV' into every living room in the county have been quickly stamped on by the leader of Herefordshire Council.

Herefordshire Council is organising a free event to help anyone looking for funding for projects that will benefit the community.

Residents have a chance to see what one of Herefordshire Council's village hall energy challenge winners are doing with their £6,500 prize money.

An exciting new programme of adult learning workshops is taking place at Herefordshire Council's Museum Resource & Learning Centre, Friars Street, Hereford.

Herefordshire Council and NHS Herefordshire are urging all county residents to join the fight against illicit tobacco sales.

Zoe Morrison, an administrator in NHS Herefordshire's public experience team, has successfully completed a gruelling challenge to raise money for the Help for Heroes charity.

People will definitely be in for a big surprise when they visit Queenswood Country Park this half term as they will see an extraordinary reptilian visitor starting to take shape before their very eyes!

As the leaves on the trees start to turn and autumn descends upon us where better to see some amazing autumn colour than by visiting Herefordshire Council's Queenswood Country Park?

Herefordshire Council's regulatory sub-committee has agreed to vary the premise licence at Withington village stores so alcohol can be sold for longer periods.

Organisers of Ross-on-Wye's Jamstand Festival have failed to comply with licensing requirements which means the event cannot go ahead as planned on the town's Caroline Symonds Gardens this weekend.

As part of h.Energy week (October 10 to 16), a number of schools in Herefordshire are donning their walking boots.

During the week of October 11 to 17, Herefordshire Council is urging children and young people to have their say on the service that the county's libraries provides for them.

Herefordshire Council's environmental health officers have successfully seized noise equipment from a tenant at a flat in the Clock House off Churchill Avenue in Leominster.

Measures to help reduce the number of accidents at a busy road junction in the south of the county have been welcomed by local county and parish councillors.

School children are being encouraged to learn about how their immune system works and how infections can spread, thanks to an NHS Herefordshire pharmacist.

New regeneration company Hereford Futures is to tender for a developer to restore the Buttermarket as a magnet to attract more tourists and shoppers to the historic city centre.

Ledbury parents will be making sure their children are safe on-line at an e-safety evening organised by one of Herefordshire Council's children's centres.

Herefordshire Council and NHS Herefordshire are staging a special event aimed at inspiring over 45s to become fitter and get back into sport.

Councillor Brian Wilcox, Herefordshire Council's cabinet member for highways and transportation, has tested his driving skills using a "smart driving" car simulator as part of 'Travel Smarter: Live Better' - European Mobility Week.

People in Herefordshire have been congratulated for their recycling efforts after the 5,000th tonne of waste - equivalent to the weight of around twenty-five 747 jumbo jets - was collected for delivery to the council's EnviroSort facility.

A Hereford man who admitted flytipping household waste was fined £330 by Hereford Magistrates today in a prosecution brought by Herefordshire Council.

A Worcester man who offered to do gardening work for an elderly Hereford man has admitted charges under the Doorstep Selling Regulations.

NHS Herefordshire is planning to start the county's first leg clubs to be run in Ross on Wye and Kington. 

Children and young people from across the county are being urged to have their say at a day long interactive event which will help plan children's services for the next three years.

Herefordshire Council is getting ready for this year's big art event (h.Art) by holding the largest arts and crafts market to date in Hereford city centre this Saturday (September 11).

Pupils and students in Leominster will be going back to a fantastic new school this week as the new Earl Mortimer College and Sixth Form Centre (formerly Minster College), opens its doors for the first time this week.

Herefordshire Council is stepping up a campaign to recruit local foster carers who want to make a difference to a local child's life. 

Herefordshire Council is going ahead with plans to introduce a number of Dog Control Orders but has decided, because of public feedback, not to proceed with one type of Order that would have made it a requirement to keep dogs on leads across a wide variety of open spaces in the County.  Instead, that Order will be progressed to cover only council-owned cemeteries.

Herefordshire Council is stepping up its battle to keep the county clean with a campaign aimed at pet owners encouraging them not to let their dogs foul public spaces.

Zoe Morrison, an administrator in NHS Herefordshire's public experience team, is taking on a daunting challenge to raise money for the Help for Heroes charity.