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  • Council Reveals 'Hush' Payments to Employees

    News
    Created: Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:14 Author: John Eager
    In a freedom of information document requested by Leominster councilor Jim Miller, Herefordshire Council's legal department state that Sean McLurg, Geoff Cole, Alan McLaughlin, Julie Holmes and Neil Pringle all 'signed compromise agreements which included...

  • Busy Bees Open Day

    Events
    Created: Wednesday, 29 June 2011 10:45 Author: Emma Davis
    Busy Bees @ LPS are holding an Open Day on Saturday 9th July 2011 from 10am - 12noonBusy Bees @ LPS is a parent committee run pre-school based on the site of Ledbury Primary School. They have recently moved to new purpose built premises with a fantastic '...

  • Dry Weather

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    Created: Monday, 27 June 2011 13:21 Author: Kathy Letby
    The Herefordshire Multi-Agency Silver Group met on 14.6.11 to discuss a number of issues including the current dry weather. The Herefordshire Multi-Agency Silver Group is a sub-committee of the West Mercia Local Resilience Forum which manages the county-w...

  • Crazy weather

    News
    Created: Saturday, 25 June 2011 00:36 Author: Steve Glennie-Smith
    Ledbury's weather expert, Norman Selkirk of Albert Road, recorded a maximum of 19.1°C on the summer solstice (21st June).  The actual time of the solstice was 17:16 GMT, which means that it occurred on 22nd June in Australia and New Zealand (where, of c...

  • Teachers Strike at John Masefield

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    Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 13:04 Author: John Eager
    Teachers at the John Masefield High School with the NUT and ATL will be strike on Thursday 30th June. This will mean that the school will be closed from 1.15pm with only students in years 7, 8, 9 and 12 having classes in the morning. Teachers are striki...

  • Quarter Million Pound Councilor

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    Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:37 Author: John Eager
    The Hereford Times is reporting that Herefordshire Council’s former director of environment Michael Hainge received a total salary package worth £250,127 in March 2010....

  • UK: crude politics

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    Created: Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:28 Author: Avaaz.org
    Right now, EU law makers are introducing an important bill which would impose strict pollution standards on car and lorry fuels and would effectively ban tar sands fuel, the world's most filthy and environmentally destructive transport oil. But shockingly...

  • Stagecoach accident

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    Created: Monday, 20 June 2011 21:48 Author: Marcus Morris
    At around 1.30pm on 20th June, the 45 Stagecoach service from Ross-on-Wye to Ledbury left the Ross Road (A449) near the Royal Oak, Much Marcle, crashing through a hedge and into the adjoining field.     ...

  • Improvements to New Mills Estate green spaces

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    Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 18:09 Author: John Grove
    Local residents in Ledbury are being asked what modest improvements they want to see for Ledbury green spaces over the next few years. Ledbury Green Spaces liaison group have begun a consultation process that has already opened up discussions on the Town ...

  • Here 4 Women Set to Close

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    Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 10:22 Author: John Eager
    Here 4 Women, the Women's Centre in St Owen's Street Hereford, is due to close at the end of this month after having its funding cut by Kenneth Clarke, Secretary of State for Justice. Chris Cawthorne who helps run the centre told the Ledbury Portal that ...

  • Poetry and Perspective II

    Courses
    Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 10:11 Author: Sue Hill
    A Writing Workshop (free) for poets and prose writers. Do you have a poem which you read time after time? Has it inspired you to write your own rhyme or changed the way you think? Bring it along. What can poetry teach us...why did Plato want to ban it? ...

  • Sixth Form Sleuth Uncovers Politically-biased Intervention In Election

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    Created: Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:32 Author: Jim Miller
    I stood for the Leominster North Ward of Herefordshire Council on May 5th on a platform asking for the pay of £226,700 a year Chief Executive Chris Bull to be cut along with the salaries of all Council Officers on more than 75k a year. Not being in a pol...

  • Blues at The Fold 2011

    Events
    Created: Thursday, 16 June 2011 13:20 Author: Oliver Carpenter
    July 2nd sees the third Blues at The Fold, hald at Bransford, between Malvern and Worcester and less than 14 miles from Ledbury. An excellent one-day community blues festival, Blues at The Fold combines nationally acclaimed music with excellent food and ...

  • Stand with the Syrian Protesters

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    Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:04 Author: Avaaz.org
    The Syrian regime is laying siege to whole cities, and is willing to annihilate them to crush the peaceful democracy movement. Security forces have cut off all food, water and medicine to these towns, shot hundreds of citizens, and detained and tortured t...

  • Book Signing: A Bedlam of Bones

    Events
    Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 13:42 Author: John Eager
    Local writer Suzette A. Hill has just had her latest humorous crime novel published. A Bedlam of Bones completes the quintet started after her retirement to Ledbury a few years ago. “It’s the Ledbury climate that does it ,” she says, “ brisk and c...

  • Gorgeous Georgians at Ross

    Events
    Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:48 Author: Nikki Moore
    The Georgian period was a time of elegance, fun, fiddle faddle, frippery and foppery whilst seeing great advancements in architecture, art, science and music. It became one of the most important periods for the Wye Valley when the Wye Tour became one of t...

  • Citizen Journalist Arrested for Filming Council Meeting

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    Created: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 18:06 Author: John Eager
    A citizen journalist has been arrested in Carmarthenshire for attempting to film a public council meeting. For the full story by Alexander Smith: Carmarthenshire blogger arrest: how we broke the story The arrest goes against the intent of a letter to lo...

  • Tory Safe Seat to Disappear?

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    Created: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 13:31 Author: John Eager
    According to the Daily Mail (urrgh) there is no love lost between our MP Bill Wiggin and the Prime Minister Cameron. The Mail alleges that the pair 'despise' each other and Cameron will 'punish' his old school pal by removing his North Herefordshire safe ...

  • Boats Return to Hereford Canal

    News
    Created: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 12:50 Author: John Eager
    The Hereford Times is reporting that boats have returned to Hereford Canal for the first time since the 1880s....

  • Summer Sketches

    Events
    Created: Sunday, 12 June 2011 14:29 Author: Richard Lee-Buxton
    Summer Sketches ...and some are not   An evening of sketches, songs, dance and poetry in a cabaret settingatWellington Heath Memorial HallFriday 24th June at 7.30 p.m.Saturday 25th June at 7.30 p.m.Drinks on sale at bar. Bring your own nibbles...
 

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