The former Bob Gallier motorcycle warehouse in Berrington Street Hereford is to become 'Little Princess Trust' Centre of Excellence if plans submitted this week are approved.

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Proposed change of use from a former motorcycle showroom and warehouse building into one single entity which will become an operations and office building for a charity. Works include a first floor extension to increase existing floor space.

The Little Princess Trust provides real hair wigs free of charge to children and young people up to the age of 24, who have lost their own hair due to cancer treatment and other conditions.

Planning application P192461/F

Here is a link to the wonderful charity's website where you will find full details of what they do - The Little Princess Website

Burger King to open in Hereford on Monday 12th August. 

To celebrate the grand opening, BK staff with be in the city centre giving away 1,000 FREE Burgers!

Please share and help find Lyndon. Big into RC community. Also a friend. Thanks

https://www.westmercia.police.uk/article/62770/Appeal-to-help-find-missing-man---Hereford

The Green Dragon Hotel Launches New Cocktail Destination for Herefordshire

This week sees the opening of the eagerly awaited Offa Bar at The Green Dragon Hotel in Hereford. A key area of restoration for the hotel’s refurbishment programme, bringing this historic hub for agricultural business and community back to life as a high-end cocktail venue for Hereford’s social scene. 

Historically, The Offa Bar was a place to meet all of the county’s most influential people and socialise with them, something the new owners are aspiring to. The bar will now boast the best mixology in the county, supported by Chase Distillery who will be the house vodka of choice and who sponsored a recent competition to find the bars lead mixologist, Henry Partridge. Henry will be devising an array of classic and seasonal cocktails that will be changed on a regular basis and focused on local drink suppliers.

Managing Director Julian Vaughan comments:

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“ It has been an exciting time bringing the Offa Bar back to life with its rich history of being the social hub for the city, which we hope to create again. Our focus is on local and seasonal so visitors can expect the best cocktails made with the best local ingredients.” 

The local focus is apparent with many local brands already on-board British Cassis, Chase Distillery, Ludlow Gin, Penrhos Gin and an extensive list of local ciders curated by Susanna Forbes author of “The Cider Insider” and co-founder of Little Pomona cider.

The Offa Bar will be open from 6 pm to 11 pm on Thursday - Saturday. On other days of the week, the bar can be hired for exclusive use, mixology classes and private cocktail parties. For more information contact Ananda Hill ananda@greendragonhotel.com

Thank you to Kie Cummings for the photographs.

Maylord Orchards shopping centre in Hereford has closed their public toilets due to financial pressures. A spokesperson said it's no longer viable for the toilets to be kept open due to the cost of maintaining them.

Simon Whiting, centre manager, said:

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"It is with much regret that as from today the Maylord Shopping Centre toilets will be closed until further notice.

"The closure is a reflection of the current retail climate whereby the financial strain has meant maintaining and managing the toilets is no longer feasible.

"We will continue to monitor and review with the hope being that we will be able to reopen in the not too distant future."

A notice on the Maylord Orchards Facebook page yesterday said: 

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As from today the Maylord Shopping Centre toilets will be closed until further notice. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Well hello...it's been a while but I'm liking the revamp.

Been away with work and doing a bit of my own rebuilding and I guess that brings me to the topic in question.

Does anyone know what's going on in the fields next to the Barrett new development and opposite the road that leads out from the old Herefordshire Nature Trust building ?

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We can nearly always offer a same day service or you can book us for a specific day that suits you. Please note we operate 7 days a week throughout the Summer, from 7am to 9pm.

Our trained technician will invariably be with you for about 15 minutes. 

Generally all signs of wasp activity around the treated area will be gone within an hour. It's very rare we fail with our 1st treatment. If there were to be any activity after 48hrs, we would return and re-treat the wasps nest free of charge. 100% Guaranteed.

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With the banks working with the government and mega corporations to abolish cash and use our smart phones for continuing surveillance, is this what will happen after Brexit. This government's proposed white paper on Online Harms centered on Internet Censorship will be the final nail in British democracy for the future. Nice piece concerning Jeremy Hunt in the video which will no doubt raise his popularity in the PM contest.

Proposed Government white paper on Internet Censorship Policy:
Online Harms consultation ends midnight tomorrow. Follow the video to grasp the consequences of what the government will allow you to say.

4 of the last high profile incidents (iirc) involving knives in Hereford all have links to Hunderton. 

Christopher Bagley left a house in Hunderton and was killed, Robert Ecock was from Hunderton (originally), The non local women who went on a speed in hunderton. And now another one where a man ( use that word loosely) stabbed his partner in hunderton. 

It’s like the estate is trying to revive its past “Shanghai” label. 

Morrisons posted a profit warning recently ... 

Robert Peston (BBC) on the subject

So why are they trying to aggravate customers by having a TalkTalk hit squad hovering as you leave? I let it go last night as these salesmen have to earn a living somewhere ... but I got grabbed again tonight by the same guys who had forgotten we had a conversation last night which had ended with me saying I was not remotely interested in their product. 

I was also in a bad mood as the offer product I went in for was bare on the shelf.

Also the car park now has so many rules that it puts you off going there. Machines that need you to type in your car registration number for instance. That loses my interest straight away! Plus ANPR cameras.

And I've not even started on the till situation! 

A Volvo car has crashed into the wall at St Nicholas Church in Barton Road this afternoon. We are not sure how the vehicle managed to crash into the wall with the car facing in the wrong direction...We understand that an elderly couple were in the car.

There is a recovery truck on site and we do not believe anyone was seriously injured.

So our question now is should people have a mandatory re-test every two or three years once they reach the age of 70-75?

How do we go about getting this off the ground to happen on our side of the river? JimmyK  has been heavily involved with picnic in the park on his patch on the quarry with great success.  Any suggestions welcome.

BBC Crimewatch tonight at 9pm.

The senior investigating officer (SIO) of the investigation, DCI Leighton Harding, said:

#speakupforchristian

Yesterday on my travels I noticed not one not two but three vehicles clamped and stamped by the DVLA for tax evasion - this was South Side only. One chappy looked rather miffed that his 16 plate was clamped right outside the school. Well done DVLA. This should become a weekly occurrence.

I'd be more p******ed at the sticker they slap on the windscreen - damn it makes a mess!!!

Planning submitted for apartments on the site of the former Sportsman Pub on Widemarsh Common.

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Construction of a single three storey residential building containing 6 no. bedroom apartments, together with associated infrastructure and access, new car parking, bin and cycle storage facilities and landscaped amenity space.

Planning Number P192344/F

 I notice that the Hereford Times website if offline yet again, it has been down for several hours. It was offline a few weeks ago too, very odd, you would think a website like that would be more rigid and reliable

A multi-million-pound government policy to boost job creation has failed to deliver, research has revealed.

In 2011, the government announced "enterprise zones" in England to try to improve economic growth, forecasting 54,000 new jobs between 2012 and 2015.

But BBC-commissioned research found by 2017 only 17,307 jobs had been created in 24 zones around England - and in two areas the number of jobs had fallen.

The government said it had created 38,000 jobs since 2012.

Enterprise zones offered cheaper business rates, super-fast broadband and lower levels of planning control.

The research, which was conducted by think tank charity Centre for Cities using data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), showed the number of jobs created fell short by nearly three-quarters of the amount predicted in the government's initial announcement in 2011.

The figure for Hereford was only 146 jobs. It's created more jobs for those involved in planning, building and promoting the site than actually working there.

The scaffolding erected at the Town Hall in Hereford in December 2015 was finally removed today after almost three and a half years! 

The entrance canopy has undergone extensive repair work as it had settled by approximately 50mm and required additional strengthening steel rods to be placed in order to give additional support and a large part of the canopy has been completely replaced together with remedial terracotta and stone work.

There is still some cleaning to be done to complete the project but this fine iconic Hereford building is almost back to its former glory.