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AS part of our weekly Crime Files series, we are taking a look back at the archives to bring you stories from Herefordshires history.

A TEENAGER crashed into a pole after taking ecstasy the night before, a court has heard.

The amount Herefordshire households pay to the police and fire services will together go up by 3.4 per cent in the coming financial year.

The amount Herefordshire households pay to the police and fire services will together go up by 3.4 per cent in the coming financial year.

Mitchell Robert Starkey pleaded guilty to five offences when he appeared before magistrates in Kidderminster. The court heard had made off from Herefords Hinton Service Station without paying for £51.21 of fuel, while disqualified from driving, and while driving without insurance on December 31. The 23-year-old was later caught driving on the A438 at Stoke Edith without insurance on January 2. Magistrates said the offences were serious due to Starkeys "very bad" record of previous offe...

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In 1996 I was employed as a sales representative by a Cotswold-based quarrying company at Perton quarry near Stoke Edith. The company which owned and operated a quarry near Stow-on-the-Wold had taken on the lease for operating the Perton quarry even though it was well outside their normal area of activity. They did this because they had made a commercial decision based on the fact, or so they thought, that the Hereford by-pass was going to be built around that time and they could tender f...