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Hereford and Leominster May Fairs stay on their streets from 2028 after 1,366 people replied. Next year's fairs run 29 April to 1 May and 4 to 6 May 2027.
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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: Gleeson Land Plan Off the A4103
Gleeson Land asks the council whether 250 homes on 11.5 hectares of turf fields off the A4103 need a full environmental assessment. Answer due 26 October.
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.
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: Halloween, Fireworks, Then Christmas
RED and Halloween in half term, the racecourse fireworks on 7 November, Cinderella from 27 November and the High Town Christmas market from 4 December.
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.
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.