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Herefordshire

July 2024

  • Micheal Neal

    Other lives
    Michael Neal obituary

    Other lives: History teacher at Eton who became a creative headteacher of Cranborne Chase school for girls in Wiltshire
  • Polytunnels at Haygrove farm in Herefordshire

    Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks

    Exclusive: Several sent home for slow fruit picking face debts as watchdog investigates alleged illegal fees
  • Nurse Elizabeth Donowho close to the site of her car crash in Shucknall Hill, Herefordshire, where she suffered several broken bones. Issac Calderon, an American citizen associated with the secret service, has left the UK whilst accused of causing Ms Donowho serious injuries by dangerous driving after his employer had given West Mercia Police assurances the 22-year-old suspect would not leave the country. Picture date: Monday December 11, 2023.<br>2TC7G4P Nurse Elizabeth Donowho close to the site of her car crash in Shucknall Hill, Herefordshire, where she suffered several broken bones. Issac Calderon, an American citizen associated with the secret service, has left the UK whilst accused of causing Ms Donowho serious injuries by dangerous driving after his employer had given West Mercia Police assurances the 22-year-old suspect would not leave the country. Picture date: Monday December 11, 2023.

    Man in US court over UK crash that left nurse unable to walk

    Issac Calderon, who was said to be working ‘with the secret service’, faces possible extradition hearing at a later date

June 2024

  • Two people crouching in river talking animatedly, with group of people in river behind holding up Green Party signs.

    River Wye needs ‘protection zone’, say Greens and Fearnley-Whittingstall

    North Herefordshire candidate and chef also call for water industry overhaul and more support for farmers
  • West Mercia police vehicle

    West Mercia police in ‘chaos’ after failure to find new chief constable

    Met police commander Kyle Gordon had been chosen to be force’s new head but will not now be taking up role
  • A male Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).

    Country diary
    Country diary: Bulky bullfinches are the sweetest of songsters

    Llandrindod Wells, Powys: They’re built like a weightlifter and have suffered a bad reputation, but I’m delighted they are nest-building in my garden

February 2024

  • A Norfolk hawker rests on a stalk

    Norfolk hawker dragonfly no longer endangered, scientists say

    Population has spread from small area of East Anglia to become established in Cambridgeshire, Kent and Herefordshire

November 2023

  • Toby Murcott stood for election to Herefordshire county council and campaigned for improvements to broadband provision in the Golden Valley

    Other lives
    Toby Murcott obituary

  • Afternoon light over Herefordshire countryside from the Marcle Ridge near Much Marcle and Woolhope.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1948: Unspoilt landscape has lost many of its treasures

May 2023

  • Craig Best (left) and Roger Pilling outside Durham crown court.

    Metal detectorists jailed for conspiring to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins

    Craig Best and Roger Pilling sentenced to more than five years for trying to illegally sell coins worth £766,000

April 2023

  • One of the cache of coins.

    Two men guilty of conspiring to sell history-changing Anglo-Saxon coins

  • A photo issued by Herefordshire Wildlife Trust from December 2020 of damage caused to the River Lugg

    Farmer jailed for 12 months for damaging Herefordshire river

October 2022

  • The report says that children in Herefordshire are not protected from harm.

    ‘Painful’ Ofsted report in Herefordshire leads to calls for resignations

    General meeting was held to discuss failing children’s services after an inspection slated its social work as ‘inadequate’ in all areas

September 2022

  • The River Wye at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    Chicken farm giant linked to River Wye decline was sued over water blight in US

    Cargill was taken to court 20 years ago in Oklahoma over the same pollution issue it is now linked to in UK

August 2022

  • Philip Chatfield, right, with his statue Our Lady of the Waters and the Wye and local canoeist Callum Bulmer.

    Hail Mary! Statue’s trip down the Wye raises chicken pollution issue

    Artist Philip Chatfield hopes river journey will alert people to damage being done by poultry excrement

March 2022

  • River Lugg with exposed banks

    Landowner facing legal action over ‘decimation’ of Herefordshire river

    Environmental agencies investigated reports of dredging, illegal tree felling and profiling of banks of protected river
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