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Two men died after a crash involving two cars and a lorry on the A49 at Dinmore on Tuesday. A 59-year-old man was arrested and police want dashcam footage.
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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.
Remembrance
Hereford Remembrance Sunday 2026: 8 November at the war memorial
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026: cathedral Requiem at 10am, then the civic service at the war memorial, 11am last year. Field of Remembrance from 31 Oct.
Planning
Herefordshire Housing Land Supply Falls to 2.81 Years
Herefordshire can show only 2.81 years of housing land against a five-year rule, down from 3.11. What it changes for planning, and the sites that dropped out.
Roadworks
Commercial Road, Hereford: Temporary Lights Until 4 December
Three-way temporary lights at Commercial Road and Blueschool Street from 12 October, and Union Street shut 7am to 5pm on 20 and 21 October.
Credenhill
Credenhill 250 Homes: MoD Raises Concerns, Drainage Objects
Council drainage and landscape officers object to 250 homes beside Stirling Lines; the MoD lists concerns but no formal objection. Decision due 22 October.
Events
What's On in Hereford: Half Term, Fireworks, Then Panto
Fireworks at the racecourse on 7 November, Come From Away and RED for half term, the hospice Christmas market from 20 November and Cinderella from 27 November.
House prices
Herefordshire House Prices: £289,607, Growth Slows to 1.8%
The county average rose 1.8% in the year to July 2026, down from 4.5% in June. Most of the slowdown is last July's jump dropping out, not falling prices.
Christmas
Santa's Grotto in Hereford 2026: Dates and Prices
St Michael's Hospice grotto at Bartestree runs 2 to 21 December 2026, from £24 a child, with SEN and baby nights. Plus the Enchanted Group show, 5 to 24 Dec.
Christmas
Hereford Cathedral at Christmas 2026: Hours and Concerts
Mappa Mundi museum: Monday to Saturday 10am to 4.30pm, £7.50, shut 25 and 26 Dec and 1 Jan, 2pm close on Christmas Eve. G4 on 18 Nov, Messiah on 12 Dec.
Schools
Aylestone School Expansion: £12.1m Deal, Places Slip 2028
The council has signed a £12.07m build contract for 300 extra places. Cabinet agreed in 2023 that the extra pupils would start in September 2026, not 2028.
Road safety
A4137 Marstow Crash: Police Want Sunday Dashcam Footage
A motorcyclist was seriously hurt at 5.40pm on Sunday. West Mercia wants dashcam footage, and our own DfT figures show the A4137 five-year record.
Hereford bypass
Hereford Bypass Costs Rise: Re-tender Now an Option
Cabinet's 24 September report says design changes have pushed costs up and much of £3.5m in planned savings is unachievable. Re-tendering is now a formal option.
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.