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The Stronger Hereford Board wants £2.34m pulled from the Shire Hall library. The council says it decides, and is pressing on with new designs and a mezzanine.
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Local Info
Hereford Petrol Prices: Cheapest Unleaded and Diesel Today
Cheapest petrol in Hereford today: unleaded from 134.8p and diesel from 143.8p a litre, across 4 forecourts within 8 miles. Updated every morning from the...
Weather
Hereford Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Hereford weather today: fog, 13°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 0% chance of rain and winds up to 4 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Council tax
Herefordshire Council Tax Help Could Fall From 100% to 50%
Working-age claimants who pay nothing now could pay half their bill from April 2027, £13.25 a week in Band A. Over 6,500 affected; comment by 4 November.
Crime and police
A49 Dinmore Crash: Paul Elliott and Finley Munro Named
Paul Elliott, 46, and his stepson Finley Munro, 21, died in the A49 Dinmore crash on 13 October. Police still want witnesses and dashcam footage.
Christmas
Ross-on-Wye Christmas Fayre: Sun 29 Nov, Lights at 4.30pm
Ross-on-Wye's Christmas lights go on at 4.30pm on Sunday 29 November at a free Fayre, 11am to 5pm, with Santa on Hill Street. Market 5 Dec, carnival 19 Dec.
Christmas
Leominster Victorian Christmas Market: Sat 12 December
Leominster's Victorian Street Market is Saturday 12 December 2026 in Corn Square and Broad Street, with a free Lion Ballroom market the same day, 10am to 3pm.
Crime and police
A49 Ross Road Crash, Hereford: Police Seek Witnesses
One driver suffered serious, potentially life-changing injuries and was flown to hospital after a crash involving several vehicles at the A465 lights on Sunday.
Withington
Withington 250 Homes: Council Says No Full Assessment
No environmental statement needed for 250 homes off the A4103 at Withington, the council ruled on 22 October. Gleeson Land's outline application comes next.
Ross-on-Wye
Ross-on-Wye Wilton Road Closed 19 Oct to 11 December
Wilton Road and Royal Parade in Ross-on-Wye close from 19 October to 11 December while the council builds a rock trap and a stone-faced wall below the rock face.
Christmas
National Trust Christmas in Herefordshire: From 21 Nov
Berrington Hall's Georgian Christmas opens 21 November; Croft Castle and Brockhampton follow on 28 November. Father Christmas £8 a child. All shut 24 to 26 Dec.
Ross-on-Wye
John Kyrle High School, Ross, Wins National Holiday Award
The Ross-on-Wye school won the HAF School Partnership award at the Department for Education ceremony on 30 September. Christmas sessions: 21, 22, 30, 31 Dec.
Farming
Monkhall Farm: Ross Farmer, 25, Gets 25-Year Duchy Lease
Harry Davies, 25, of Hopes Ash Farm, Ross, takes the Duchy of Cornwall's 900-acre Monkhall Farm at Callow on its first regenerative tenancy, for 25 years.
Herefordshire is one council, one county and very little else in between. Hereford is the only city and holds about a third of the population. Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, Ledbury, Bromyard and Kington are the market towns, and the rest is farmland, orchards and villages spread thinly right up to the Welsh border.
Hereford Today reports what the record shows across all of it. Herefordshire Council has been a unitary authority since 1998, so planning, bins, roads, licensing, council tax, schools and social care all sit with the same body, and there is nobody else to pass the question to. It publishes the evidence for its decisions where almost nobody reads it. We read it and write down what it says, with a link to the document every time.
Every fact links to the document it came from.