Hereford, England News

Trains were cancelled, roads were shut and car owners were called to collect their vehicles from car parks before they became submerged.

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HEREFORD'S High Town can only benefit from stores like House of Fraser and John Lewis setting up shop on the Cattle Market.

The Freedom of the City will be extended to The Rifles during a lavish ceremony in Hereford next weekend.

PEOPLE are being invited slip into their shorts and t-shirts and get down to a Hereford nightspot where a beach themed event is being held in aid of charity.

A FIRE has gutted the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and takeaway, forcing it to close temporarily.

A NEW road opened in Hereford this week will lead to greater prosperity, claims a councillor.

A DRUG gang boss who ran Hereford's heroin trade was busted by his own boasts. Christopher Mitchell's gang of eight used homes across south Hereford to peddle crack cocaine and heroin throughout 2006.

Cider-maker HP Bulmer and its water treatment contractor have been each fined 300,000 for health and safety breaches which led to a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.

AN elderly woman has had her bag snatched in Hereford. The victim was approached by a male as she walked through the alleyway between Ryelands Street and Sainsbury's car park at around 10.20am on Tuesday.

Widemarsh Street outfitters Symonds & Co has offered loyal customers cut-price garments before it will clear stock from nearly half of its premises in a few months.

MORE than 1,300 competitors braved Sunday's high winds to take part in the third annual Acorns Triple Run.

A SPECIALIST in the Buteyko method of breathing will visit Hereford next month. Simon Paddon will help county residents with breathing related illnesses during a help session at the South Wye Learning Centre on ...

TWO cars have been involved in an accident in Hereford this morning. Emergency services were called to a stretch of the A438 Kings Acre Road near the Bay Horse Motors garage at around 11.25am. West Midlands ...

ALL SMILES: Henry Sandon at home with his wife Barbara. BROADCASTER, ceramics expert and world authority on Worcester porcelain Henry Sandon has been award an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

DIGNITARIES from across the two counties paraded through the centre of Worcester to officially welcome the city's new mayor into office.

A review into the response to the 2007 floods is expected within months Parts of the UK have a shortage of trained flood rescue crews, figures compiled by the Chief Fire Officer's Association reveal.

Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service sent crews from Worcester, Stourport, Bewdley and Kidderminster to Dingle Farm House, Hillhampton Lane, Little Witley, about 11.43am. Spokesman Alec Mackie said 20 ...

MORE than 1,000 Wyre Forest schoolchildren will take part in a special safety challenge later this month.

FRIENDS of a Hereford athlete who died training for a marathon are to hold a race in his honour.