News

20 August 2008
Herefordshire residents are being urged to have their say on the future of 111 telephone boxes in the county.

19 August 2008
Bus passengers throughout Herefordshire who travel under the Herefordshire Council concessionary bus travel scheme are being asked to check that they have an up-to-date pass.

18 August 2008
It has been one year since Hereford Pedicabs launched their cargo and freight operation Hereford Pedicargo and, since then, they have travelled the equivalent distance as a trip across the Atlantic to America without any emissions.

15 August 2008
Eighteen unloved telephone kiosks in Herefordshire will certainly be axed by BT unless local people speak up in their defence.

15 August 2008
Herefordshire Council and Welsh Water have worked together to ensure road closures in the Wigmore area of the county have been lifted ahead of schedule.

15 August 2008
Professionals in health and social care services have come together from across Herefordshire to work on a local vision for how those services could be better managed and provided for the future.

15 August 2008
Herefordshire Primary Care Trust has commissioned an important review of how health and social care services are managed and provided for the benefit of local people.

15 August 2008
Herefordshire people think their doctors are wonderful - and that's official. The 2008 National Patient Survey released by independent healthcare watchdogs - the Healthcare Commission - shows that Herefordshire Primary Care Trust and local GPs are top performers in two-thirds of the fields measured.

15 August 2008
Students in the four Herefordshire schools with sixth forms have achieved impressive results this year.  Both John Kyrle High School and John Masefield High School – the two largest high school sixth forms – achieved their best ever results with John Kyrle achieving 99 percent and John Masefield achieving 98 percent pass rates compared to the national figure of 97.2 percent. 

15 August 2008
Latest figures show that Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership’s Drugs Intervention Programme (DIP) is exceeding government targets and helping cut drug related crime rates in Herefordshire from already very low levels.