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St Michael's Hospice fireworks return to Hereford Racecourse on Saturday 7 November 2026, gates 5pm. Early bird tickets are £7 adult and £5 child, no sparklers.
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Local Info
Parking in Hereford: 30 Minutes Free, £5.50 All Day
Every council car park gives 30 minutes free, but you still need a ticket. All-day parking runs £5.50 to £17. On-street is free Sundays, car parks are not.
Local Info
Hereford Council Tax Bands: £2,556.44 at Band D
Band D in Hereford city is £2,556.44 for 2026/27. The full A to H table, the £229.58 gap between parishes, and why the city's own precept jumped 14 per cent.
Hereford bypass
Hereford bypass: £44.7m cost, Cabinet decides 10 September
The business case puts Phase One at £44.7m against a £45.3m budget and its benefit-cost ratio at 1.5. Cabinet votes on 10 September on releasing the money.
House prices
Herefordshire house prices: £289,715, up £13,290 in a year
The county average rose 4.8% in the year to June 2026, 77th of 295 English areas. Terraces and semis rose 5.7%, flats just 2%, and sales are below 2024.
Recycling
Herefordshire Tips Stop Taking Fridges, So Has Collection
All six Herefordshire recycling centres stopped taking fridges on 19 August. The council's £35.15 bulky collection quietly stopped too, with no end date.
Business
Herefordshire Cuts Pavement Licence to £150 Until 2028
A pavement licence in Herefordshire now costs £150, not £500, and £105 to renew. The old fee was the legal maximum. The cut runs to 31 March 2028.
Environment
River Wye at Hereford Drops Below Its 1976 Drought Low
The Wye at Belmont averaged 3.30 cubic metres a second over the first half of August, below the 3.34 of August 1976, the lowest August in a 90-year record.
Education
Hereford GCSE Results 2026: 20 August and What Next
GCSE results reach Herefordshire pupils on Thursday 20 August. Free drop-in advice from 1pm, what a grade 4 changes, and the 24 September appeal deadline.
Education
Hereford A Level Results 2026: 98.7% Pass and What Next
Herefordshire's A level pass rate was 98.7%, the council says, and Hereford Sixth Form recorded 57.2% of grades at A* to B. GCSE results follow on 20 August.
Housing
Hereford Emergency Housing: 28 Flats at John Venn Building
Hereford's John Venn Building becomes 28 emergency flats by summer 2027, a £3.8m job. Herefordshire had 196 households in temporary accommodation in March.
Business
Flip Out Hereford operator goes into liquidation
The company behind the Mortimer Road inflatable park entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 27 July, and the venue has gone from Flip Out's website.
Transport
Hereford Beryl bikes: 50 new e-bikes take the fleet to 200
Fifty new e-bikes join Hereford's Beryl scheme this summer, taking the fleet to 200 bikes across more than 70 bays, with 683,000 rides logged since 2019.
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.