Paul Keetch News Today

Sir Colin Shepherd, who has died four days after his 86th birthday, was for 25 years a conscientious Conservative MP for Hereford, holding off the Liberals to take the seat in October 1974, but losing it to them when John Major’s government was routed in 1997.

PEOPLE living on the outskirts of Hereford could be moved into a different parliamentary constituency under proposed boundary changes that would leave the rest of Herefordshire largely unchanged. The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) proposals would see people living in the Stoney Street council ward, which includes the village of Madley, moved from the Hereford and South Herefordshire constituency to North Herefordshire. Some people living to the north of Herefords Holmer council war...