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BOGUS fundraisers have been reported to have been canvassing Herefordshire pubs and businesses claiming to be raising money for a Herefordshire…

Hundreds of fundraisers brought a splash of colour to Hereford by running a five-kilometre course through the city while covered in paint.

A FORMER SAS soldier is set to row 3,100 miles across the Atlantic with only the sun and stars to guide him, inspired after being kidnapped in Syria. Ian Rivers, from Hereford, is taking on the mammoth challenge without any support, including any access to GPS. The former SAS soldier with take on the Row Sentinel Atlantic Challenge which will see him leave New York in May and row the 3100 plus nautical miles to the Isles of Scilly. The crossing will test his endurance, navigation and seamanship to the absolute limit, and nobody has ever managed to complete an unsupported solo row of t...

“Clive was passionate about so many things and endeavoured to help as many as he could either by advice, support via his charity, fundraising events and opening his beautiful gardens at Lower Hope. He would often be seen wandering around his garden on the National Garden Scheme open days with his beloved Labrador dogs not far behind. “He kept strong connections with his old grammar school, Bishop Vesey in Sutton Coldfield, as his education and guidance there set him off on his career path to, in his own words, ‘make a few bob’ which he later generously shared with others.

"He served articles with KPMG in Birmingham and qualified as a cost and management accountant in 1959, passed the final of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and as a chartered accountant in 1960," it added. "He has spent the rest of his career in the City of London firstly with the Jobbers Wedd Durlacher where he became managing partner 1960 to 1970 and then with Rothschild Group 1970 to 1976. "He then became a serial entrepreneur for the rest of his career building up, floating and/or selling several PLCs. He was awarded the OBE for Charity in 2000 and in 2018 the KSG – Papal ...