Herefordshire Churches Through Victorian Eyes: Sir Stephen Glynne's Church Notes for Herefordshire with Water-colours by Charles F. Walker
them apples (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
During the height of the beef crisis in the UK during the nineties, beef joints including the animal's bones were banned. You couldn't buy proper roasting joints anywhere. All beef was sold off the bone, and that was that. My dad had other ideas, and wasn't about to be scared off by a minor inconvenience such as CJD. He knew people, he worked in the trade. One weekend, for some family get together...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The owner of a Ross-on-Wye hotel has said he will take measures to stop the British National Party (BNP) staying at the venue in the future. Angry scenes greeted a fund-raising dinner that saw senior BNP figures, including leader Nick Griffin, stay at the Chase Hotel. Their presence led to nearly 100 protesters venting their anger outside the premises. But Alan Porter, a member of the family that owns...
computing (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Tom Young, Computing , Thursday 5 November 2009 at 07:45:00 Bristow & Sutor has seen a significant rise in productivity since it equipped its bailiffs with GPS-enabled PDAs Bristow & Sutor, a firm based in the West Midlands that collects payments on behalf of local authorities, has rolled out personal digital assistants (PDAs) to more than 150 bailiffs in an effort to improve their time management...
freeranger (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Today, we drove over to near Kington, in Herefordshire. Agnes and Ida have moved there, to a little cottage under the woods - an idyllic setting. It's not as isolated as it looks, being on the edge of a small hamlet, and only five minutes' drive from Kington itself. (I think Agnes will be driving mostly, rather than going by her new bike - which we took over, complete with child seat: it's very hilly.)...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
T raders and residents have welcomed detailed plans for creating a ‘lively and vital streetscape’ between the city core and the new leisure and retail attractions proposed for the old livestock market site. Herefordshire Council set up a special event in the city this week (Monday 2 November) for businesses and residents on Widemarsh Street to view the scheme and schedule of work. An inspiring...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
H erefordshire has launched a new partnership to champion the revitalisation of Hereford as an economic power serving the county, the region and mid Wales. Senior representatives from business, commerce, housing, regeneration, education and the public sector are backing the new partnership – called Hereford City Futures - to oversee the development of the city. The aim is to boost opportunities...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Councillor Adrian Blackshaw is campaigning for Herefordshire residents to support local produce. H erefordshire Council is to launch a national architectural competition to create a design concept to improve and revamp the iconic Buttermarket in Hereford. The Buttermarket Steering Group - comprising Buttermarket traders and the council – has agreed to seek ideas that reflect a traditional Victorian...
Saga (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In 1991 Monty and Sarah Don bought a derelict house with a two-acre field at Ivington in Herefordshire. There was no garden to speak of. But by the time they were ready to start planting, 18 months later, Monty already knew what his unborn garden would be like.
artichoke: British food and drink (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
With the cider harvest in full swing, CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, is celebrating National Cider and Perry Month with farm-gate tastings and orchard events nationwide ( camra.org.uk/cider ). Unlike chilled and fizzy, artificially produced ciders, real cider and perry, which are produced naturally from apples or pears and are neither carbonated nor pasteurised, are becoming harder to find in pubs....
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
H erefordshire Council is planning to introduce ‘juice points’ to enable the public to charge up electric vehicles, it was announced at the 350 Climate Change event in Hereford (Saturday 24 October). Councillor John Jarvis, cabinet member for environment and strategic housing, said the council planned to install at least two ‘charge points’ in the city where electric car drivers...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
D o you have diabetes, or know someone who does? Are you interested in diabetes services for adults in Herefordshire? If so, NHS Herefordshire wants to hear from you. Informal meetings are being held across the county in a bid to help improve the way services are being developed for the future. Paul Edwards, Associate Director of Integrated Commissioning for NHS Herefordshire said, “We want to...
The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Parents in Lichfield and Burntwood are being urged to ensure their children are safe during Halloween. With a variety of events across the region and many children trick or treating, West Midlands Ambulance Service has urged parents to keep a close eye on youngsters. A spokeswoman said: “We appeal to any parents of children who are planning on [...]
GrumpyOldTwat (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
If true, the rape of an 8 year old girl by these two young boys must be a terribly harrowing experience for the poor young girl and her family. But how the buggering arseholes does a 10 year old boy get a fucking lob on? Answers on a postcard please to: Baron Peter Benjamin Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, First Secretary of State, Secretary of...
A Bun Can Dance (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Our Holiday at Home started with some time Away in Malvern. Yes, contradictory I know, but we had already planned to visit Mr Bun's family for the first weekend. It was a great way to start the holiday as we were extremely spoilt by the family with a great deal of yummy food consumed! We spent several hours at the Malvern Flea Market at the Three Counties Showground and saw a bewildering array of so...
thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
My reading experiences are almost exclusively fictional. Ok the odd bit off non-fiction creeps in but it is very much the exception. HOWEVER!! I commented that I was reading a short extract from James Lees-Milne diaries and interesting it was. The book was about historic houses and there owners and was mostly set in the 1940's Lees-Milne new many of them personally (he had known the then Duchess of...
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