Sir Colin Shepherd, Hereford Tory MP who stood up for local interests from farming to SAS – obituary : vimarsana.com

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.

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