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THERE are mixed messages about how Ledbury's food retailers are faring in these lockdown times. Photographs are flooding into Ledbury Food Group from people who took part in the recent online "Ledbury Big Breakfast" event. But the Food Group is concerned that Ledbury Country Market, which is still operating during lockdown, is not attracting similar strong support from the public. A Food Group spokesperson said: "Many thanks to everyone who took part in this year’s Big Breakfast at Home, and by doing so supported our local food retailers and in turn our local food producers. "We�...

FLOOD alerts are in force in Herefordshire as rain and snow melt causes rivers to rise again. The Environment Agency said river levels have risen at the Bishops Frome and Bromyard river gauge, and flooding of roads and farmland was expected on Thursday morning. Low-lying land and roads along the River Frome from Bromyard to Hereford may be affected. Other locations that may be affected include Bishops Frome and Yarkhill. Remarkably the 2 biggest floods recorded on the Wye at Hereford have happened in the last year. Reliable gauge data only goes back 50 years but observed level...

The newlyweds finally tied the knot on December 19 after four attempts thwarted by lockdown. The pair were first introduced during a bereavement lunch at St Michael's Hospice, just a few months after Allan Jones had lost wife Maureen. "It was my first time there and I walked into this room and couldn't see anywhere to sit," said Mr Jones. "I was about to leave when a lady called Anne said there was a seat next to her and her friend." That friend was Linda and the pair immediately hit it off. "We'd lost our partners at about the same time," said Mrs Jones.

FIREFIGHTERS have tackled an out-of-control fire in a woodburner in a Herefordshire village. Two Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue service crews were called to Lyne Down in Much Marcle at 8.06pm on Thursday evening to reports of the fire. A fire service spokesperson said crews from Fownhope and Ross-on-Wye attended to tackle "a woodburner well alight at a house in Much Marcle". "The woodburner was emptied and removed by fire service personnel," they added. "Access was gained to the roof of the property with the fire tackled using two hosereel jets. "A thermal imaging camera w...

Hereford Magistrates Court AN 84-year-old man who made photographs of a sexual act being committed on a child has been handed a suspended sentence. David William John Cowell entered a guilty plea when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford. The court heard Cowell had made six of the most serious type of indecent photographs of a child, category A images, which showed a sexual act being committed, on March 25 2018. He made a further 'category B' indecent photograph of a child on November 8 2018. Cowell, of Monks Meadow, Much Marcle, was handed a six-month prison sentence, suspend...