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  1. Colin James
    What would you normally do in these circumstances?
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    Herefordshire Council have rejected an application for an Islamic Centre in Holme Lacy Road Hereford. Full details of this application here Original application form and Decision notice attached. AppForm.pdf Decision Notice 167100.pdf
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    Herefordshire Council is delighted to have received six expressions of interest regarding development of the Buttermarket in Hereford. This followed a national marketing campaign, which generated a lot of interest and saw 17 information packs being distributed. The six interested candidates have now been invited to submit a short presentation and outline business case to a selected panel on Thursday 11 December. The successful shortlisted candidates will then be asked to submit a full business case in April / May 2015, with a preferred candidate and development proposal being selected in early summer.
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    This is a lovely gesture and tribute, well done Councillors.
  5. Colin James
    High Town Christmas lights switch on with live music from Sunshine Radio and Santa Abseil Wednesday 19 November at 7.15pm
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    Parking should be free after 6pm throughout Hereford for the whole year and not just a few days over the festive period. The council are very short sighted if this is the best that they can come up with. :Cha ching: :Cha ching: :Cha ching: Great efforts from Jim Kenyon as usual, so much appreciation there.
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    The Beefy Boys ‘Butty Back’ burger wows judges in final round of World Burger Championships! The Beefy Boys have excelled in The World Burger Championships in Las Vegas, with their Butty Back burger claiming top spot in the final round! The team’s cumulative scores saw them take an amazing overall 2nd place in the world! The Beefy Boys are six amateur cooks from Herefordshire, whose passion for turning quality local produce into amazing BBQ foods, guided only by their taste buds and a lot of experimentation has catapulted them into the spotlights on the world food stage. They won Best Burger at the top UK BBQ competition Grillstock in Bristol in June and qualified for a place at the World Food Championships in Las Vegas, to compete against 50 of the best burger teams in the world. The World Food Championships is the highest stakes food competition in the world. This multi-day, live-event culinary competition in Downtown Las Vegas, showcases some of the world's best cooking masters competing for fame and fortune, and is broadcast to millions via a 6 episode US TV series. The competition was already tough, with experienced professional competition teams but the Beefy Boys faced the added challenge of having to recreate their burgers from scratch Stateside as they were unable to import their 21 day-aged Herefordshire meat and specially baked local brioche buns – both of which had to be sourced from scratch in Las Vegas, to the team’s demanding specifications. They successfully won their way through to the 10 team final and then pulled out all the stops with their ‘Butty Back’ Burger in the final round. This show-stopping burger featured their signature patty – mouth-watering beef brisket smoked with Butty Bach ale from Wye Valley Brewery and impressed the judges with its deliciously matched Butty Bach sauce. On overall scores, they were piped at the post by the 2013 World Burger Champions but for a self-taught UK team to reach second place, beating many successful American teams at their own game, is an incredible achievement. For the boys from Hereford, it still feels like hitting the jackpot. They take home a prize pot of $5,000. “We feel so fortunate to be able to showcase Herefordshire and a take a taste of the county and its produce on to the world’s stage - elements that without which we wouldn't have been able to achieve what we have so far,” said Christian Williams, one of the amateur cooks. “It was an incredible experience and we can’t wait to share it with everyone back home.” The whole story of the Beefy Boy’s Las Vegas adventures has been captured on film by Shooting Reels and the first cuts will be released before Christmas.
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    Shoppers and visitors will be able to park for free in city centre car parks this Christmas as part of an ongoing campaign to promote Hereford as a Christmas shopping destination. Full Details
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    This is interesting..
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    Our petition added some weight to this of that, I am sure. Result! Hopefully.
  12. Colin James
    The next Belmont Rural Parish Council meeting will be held on Thursday 4 December 2014 at the Belmont Community Centre, starting at 7.00pm. It is hoped that Natalia Silver of Herefordshire District Council will attend and finalise HDC’s proposals for the Belmont Library for 2015-16. Currently available information suggests that, if the Belmont Library is to continue as it is now, there will a £7,000 to £10,000 in HDC funding. Which agencies, if any, who might be willing to bridge this shortfall is not established. Notwithstanding South Wye Community Association, the charity which owns the Belmont Community Centre, has made it very clear that, though they would like to keep the Library on their premises in the public interest, they cannot afford to subsidize it. A £2,000 rent reduction was imposed on the Association this year, and any further rent reduction might threaten the financial viability of the Belmont Centre. SWCA has clearly indicated that a rent of £7,950per annum is required from the Belmont Library. The reader should be aware that maintenance & repair, utility costs, cleaning, and freedom of access to kitchen and toilet facilities, to Library staff and visitors, are included in this rent. Furthermore compared to the hire charges requested from the Centre’s other users the Library rent is already substantially discounted.
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    The next Belmont Rural Parish Council meeting will be held on Thursday 4 December 2014 at the Belmont Community Centre, starting at 7.00pm. It is hoped that Natalia Silver of Herefordshire District Council will attend and finalise HDC’s proposals for the Belmont Library for 2015-16. Currently available information suggests that, if the Belmont Library is to continue as it is now, there will a £7,000 to £10,000 in HDC funding. Which agencies, if any, who might be willing to bridge this shortfall is not established. Notwithstanding South Wye Community Association, the charity which owns the Belmont Community Centre, has made it very clear that, though they would like to keep the Library on their premises in the public interest, they cannot afford to subsidize it. A £2,000 rent reduction was imposed on the Association this year, and any further rent reduction might threaten the financial viability of the Belmont Centre. SWCA has clearly indicated that a rent of £7,950per annum is required from the Belmont Library. The reader should be aware that maintenance & repair, utility costs, cleaning, and freedom of access to kitchen and toilet facilities, to Library staff and visitors, are included in this rent. Furthermore compared to the hire charges requested from the Centre’s other users the Library rent is already substantially discounted. Taken from the Belmont Community Centre Website:
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    It's the last weekend of our firearms surrender campaign. Please take this opportunity to hand in any unlicensed or unwanted firearms so we can safely destroy them. 372 firearms handed in so far across West Mercia and Warwickshire policing areas. http://www.westmercia.police.uk/…/final-weekend-of-firearms…
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    Saturday 29 November at The Jailhouse, Hereford NMTBullocks presents GOD DAMN / Plane Crasher / Weathered Hands / Cassandra / Chew The impressively loud 2 piece GOD DAMN will be headlining what may well be the last NMTBullocks gig night to be held at The Jailhouse on Saturday 29th November, what with the very sad closure of the club on the horizon at the end of the year. They’ll be supported on the night by a host of excellent local bands. Loud, intense, brutal, raucous, dirty punk ‘n’ roll noisemongers Plane Crasher and emotive hardcore punk rock from Weathered Hands. Plus garage indie rockers Cassandra and alternative Chew. Atomic drum and guitar duo God Damn are pure attack: molten pop hooks galvanized in a blaze of bludgeoning riffs and furiously propulsive percussion. Hailing from the heart of the Black Country, God Damn fuse ‘Bleach’ era Nirvana, Jesus Lizard, ‘Surfer Rosa’ era Pixies and At The Drive In influences whilst swearing allegiance to the ‘Seven J’s’ of their Holy Bible: Hendrix, Homme, Cash, White, Page, Bonham and Jesse ‘The Devil’ Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal). ….what the press say: “A heads-down, hair-in-your-eyes, ****-your-instruments-as-hard-as-humanly-possible riff riot.” – The Guardian A rip-rollicking thrash, brutally mixing grunge and the regions finest export, heavy metal." – NME A testifying blues grunge prog rock pop metal thrashup... if that sounds like a pretty awesome combination, you’d be right. It is." – Brum Notes “Fantastic: loud, louder, and ******* loud, PA testing Motorhead style volume. Times two.” Uberrock ….and finally in their own words when recently talked to Kerrang about their forthcoming One Little Indian release and upcoming tour: “We can’t wait to take this new material out on the road! We are known for being one of the rawest on the circuit using heavy dynamics with a quiet/loud/jet-engine decibel range… A sing-along nosebleed kinda vibration,” laughs vocalist and guitarist, Thom Edward. “We’ve made a very textured, visceral and angry record with those pop barbed hooks. We’re fully intent on making layered studio albums with depth and then gloves off, knuckle dusters on for the shows!” So check out GOD DAMN on Saturday November 29th, a band definitely on the rise. With multiple plays of their latest single Horus on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show and a UK Download tour with Turbowolf just days after this Jailhouse show they are an act to watch. Also make the most of The Jailhouse, a venue so supportive of the NMTBullocks shows and live music in general over the last 7 years here in Hereford while it’s still around. Live: 7.30 – 11.30pm /// £5 on the door. (Includes entry into 80s & 90s Anthems club night after bands till 3am) nevermindthebullocks.co.uk facebook.com/nmtbullocks
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    Saturday 29 November at The Jailhouse, Hereford NMTBullocks presents GOD DAMN / Plane Crasher / Weathered Hands / Cassandra / Chew The impressively loud 2 piece GOD DAMN will be headlining what may well be the last NMTBullocks gig night to be held at The Jailhouse on Saturday 29th November, what with the very sad closure of the club on the horizon at the end of the year. They’ll be supported on the night by a host of excellent local bands. Loud, intense, brutal, raucous, dirty punk ‘n’ roll noisemongers Plane Crasher and emotive hardcore punk rock from Weathered Hands. Plus garage indie rockers Cassandra and alternative Chew. Atomic drum and guitar duo God Damn are pure attack: molten pop hooks galvanized in a blaze of bludgeoning riffs and furiously propulsive percussion. Hailing from the heart of the Black Country, God Damn fuse ‘Bleach’ era Nirvana, Jesus Lizard, ‘Surfer Rosa’ era Pixies and At The Drive In influences whilst swearing allegiance to the ‘Seven J’s’ of their Holy Bible: Hendrix, Homme, Cash, White, Page, Bonham and Jesse ‘The Devil’ Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal). ….what the press say: “A heads-down, hair-in-your-eyes, ****-your-instruments-as-hard-as-humanly-possible riff riot.” – The Guardian A rip-rollicking thrash, brutally mixing grunge and the regions finest export, heavy metal." – NME A testifying blues grunge prog rock pop metal thrashup... if that sounds like a pretty awesome combination, you’d be right. It is." – Brum Notes “Fantastic: loud, louder, and ******* loud, PA testing Motorhead style volume. Times two.” Uberrock ….and finally in their own words when recently talked to Kerrang about their forthcoming One Little Indian release and upcoming tour: “We can’t wait to take this new material out on the road! We are known for being one of the rawest on the circuit using heavy dynamics with a quiet/loud/jet-engine decibel range… A sing-along nosebleed kinda vibration,” laughs vocalist and guitarist, Thom Edward. “We’ve made a very textured, visceral and angry record with those pop barbed hooks. We’re fully intent on making layered studio albums with depth and then gloves off, knuckle dusters on for the shows!” So check out GOD DAMN on Saturday November 29th, a band definitely on the rise. With multiple plays of their latest single Horus on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show and a UK Download tour with Turbowolf just days after this Jailhouse show they are an act to watch. Also make the most of The Jailhouse, a venue so supportive of the NMTBullocks shows and live music in general over the last 7 years here in Hereford while it’s still around. Live: 7.30 – 11.30pm /// £5 on the door. (Includes entry into 80s & 90s Anthems club night after bands till 3am) nevermindthebullocks.co.uk facebook.com/nmtbullocks
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    I could only find 2 topics but I have merged them together.
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    I have been reluctantly forced to lock and remove a recent topic. Hereford Voice is a community for open discussion and debates and generally these are really great in depth discussions covering a wide range of topics. We have some really fantastic members here from a variety of backgrounds, lets please occasionally agree to disagree on heated debates, I do not like it when they start to become personal. There is no need to be unpleasant and I would encourage everyone to think about how the comments that they write may effect others. Please all take a moment to read through the forum rules and lets get back to discussing and some classic poems!
  20. Colin James
    That's a huge amount of money! :Cha ching:
  21. Colin James
    We have new Twitter followers most days but this person stood out this morning.. Welcome Andy McNab
  22. Colin James
    Go turnout in Hereford too.
  23. Colin James
    I was in town yesterday afternoon with a friend and in all honesty we thought that both the new shopping centre and high town were both very busy, I appreciate that there were a lot of people around to commemorate remembrance day but this was after 2pm. We noticed Widemarsh St was very busy with people walking between both centres too. I do get frustrated though with the queue of people waiting for the traffic to stop at the Wellington pub crossing, a foot bridge comes to mind.. We went to the cinema last night and I can confirm that Pandora show their opening times on their door. It says they close at 18.00? I agree with Rebecca, this is confusing when you look at the opening times listed on the website above as 20.00 and this is from day one!
  24. Colin James
    ragwert, please keep to the topic in hand, in this case this topic is about Wagamama. Feel free to create a new topic.
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    If you click here it lists all the shops and if you click on each logo it will show their opening hours... I clicked on Pandora Hereford and well, have a look yourselves, it states 20.00 but they close at 18.00. I am going to the cinema for the first time later so I will see what it says on their door.
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