A man has been arrested tonight after the attempted robbery of the Welcome fish bar in Widemarsh Street.
Earlier report of a man having a gun pointed in his face on Greyfriars Bridge.

Have you seen the latest 2020 visions on Hereford Times?

Have a laugh at this pic of Commercial Rd,One way & no traffic lights 

A trampoline arena together with a cafe & five B1 business units have been given the go ahead

on the old Joseph Ash site in Burcott Road.
They will use and adapt the existing buildings on the site for the trampoline arena and build a cafe & five

B1 use units.

The Winter 2016/17 Place magazine is now available to view online.  There is quite a well informed lengthy article on the trees in King George's PF alongwith much else to read and inwardly digest

I have just seen someones reply to an e-mail to Highways England regarding the state of the railings over the New bridge.

What do you think, back in November I wrote to Highways England in connection with Greyfriars Bridge asking when they would re paint or replace the railings. Suddenly a week ago they called me, they had commissioned a report into the state of the railings, they agree that it needs repainting and this is planned for 2020/21 financial year, so I success I thought, until I read the report that they emailed me. As part of the report there is also a report from there Health and Safety people. ‘ the open aspect of the bridge is seen as a distraction and they plan to solve this by blanking off the railings over the bridge where you can see the river and also add a further fence on top of the railings so that nobody will be distracted by the river as they cross the bridge’ from that I read that a 6’ to 8’ fence would be erected the length of the bridge. I have asked both the Hereford Times and Your Herefordshire to further question Highways England over their proposal, but interested to hear what residents of Hereford feel about this proposal.

Multi emergency services called out to reports of a vehicle in river Dore next to B4347 near Pontrilas.

Emergency crews from West Mercia Police, firefighters from Ewyas Harold, Hereford, Ross, and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service rushed to the scene.

The river Wye in Hereford is very high with flooding already along the river path with no access to the Old Bridge.

This photograph was taken at 0800 this morning.

The river is expected to peak this evening.

Darren Gibbons is leading the 12 in 12 challenge for St Michael's

The City Link Road will open to the public on Monday 11 December 2017.

The road opens in time for the busiest Christmas Shopping period

I am hearing rumours that some cars in Newton Farm have been sprayed with acid over the Christmas break. Does anyone know what had happened ? I hear the police have been involved but I can not get more information. The story is that a women was seen spraying acid on cars in Charlton Avenue, anyone know what has occurred?

Herefordshire Councils ambitious plans for growth are a step closer to delivery with the appointment of Keepmoat Homes Ltd (Keepmoat) as a preferred bidder to become the councils partner developer at cabinet today, Thursday 27 July 2017.

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POP stars Peter Andre and Midge will be performing at an all day concert at Hereford FC's Edgar Street ground this May!

The line up for the Hereford FC Live concert that will take place at Edgar Street on 12th May has been confirmed!

Why are our beautiful Medieval City Walls being left to ruin?

I have mentioned this in the recent topic about a number of increased weeds in our city but I do think this justifies a unique topic.

Just look at the weeds growing from the top of this section along Gunners Lane.

Hereford Voice is highlighting just how bad this has become in an attempt to provoke some action and possible restoration from the Council. Hopefully, we can encourage them to put a maintenance plan in place going forward. The Herefordshire County Council need to look at having the weeds removed and also look at cleaning and repairing any unstable sections of the City Walls.

The survival of our Medieval City Walls is very important, this is our heritage and therefore should be protected for future generations to come, after all this site is a scheduled monument protected by law.  

There was a study of Hereford's City Walls back in September 2011 details here and details about the Area of Archaeological Importance (AAI) can be found here

A map of Hereford Area of Archaeological Importance, Hereford city wall conservation management plan documents and archaeology supplementary planning guidance can be found here and here

Some good work being carried out all this week along the Newton Brook in Belmont. The brook has not really been cleaned out in years so it was good to see a JCB making light work of it.

This work was paid for by Herefordshire Council and there is now a program for maintenance along this stretch. 

This work was undertaken following constant pressure to do something from Cllr Tracy Bowes who has been chasing them for months as this is a flood risk. They tried to clear some of the brook near Jubilee field on the last community action day but the silt was above their wellies.

They are monitoring the other parts of the brook and this has been included in the tender for work for next year. 

December, January and February have been highlighted as good times for tree and shrub maintenance and coppicing but there is a plan now which should see additional work carried out throughout the year.

A man charged with the murder of Julie Clark (we understand that this was his mother) who died from stab wounds at her home in Highmore Street, Hereford, last Tuesday appeared in court at Hereford today.

BBC 'Question Time' programme will be broadcast live from Hereford on the 18th January 2018.