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    Enhancement works will be carried out to Widemarsh Street, Hereford, as part of the Hereford City Centre Improvements (HCCI) plan. The scheme, estimated to take 16 weeks, is scheduled to begin in February, subject to detailed design being completed, and will include the removal of the current 50mm kerb by lifting and replacing the road surface, with new channel blocks and drainage system. The existing Widemarsh St design was completed in 2011 and has been subject to a number of specialist design and safety reviews. All of these have concluded that the scheme is fully in line with design guidance and best practice. However, the public have continued to lobby local councillors as well as the Cabinet Member regarding incidents personal to them. In light of this a Cabinet Member decision made last year ensured that a budget to enhance Widemarsh St was included in the HCCI programme. Councillor John Harrington, Cabinet member infrastructure and transport said: “The existing layout of Widemarsh St was conceived with the best of intentions, conforming, I believe, to design and best practice guidance, and with the aim of promoting pedestrian safety. And this remains the professional view of officers and our public realm contractor. However, it is our opinion as an administration, that unfortunately and undeniably, the design has caused difficulties for some pedestrians, and this is something we were keen to remedy. “Widemarsh St is a key part of the City centre, being a popular route for pedestrians and vehicles, home to many shops and businesses, and providing an important link between Old Market and High Town. It is a central component of our transport network and economy, along with the status and appeal of Hereford as a visitor destination and place for local people to enjoy their leisure time. As such it is important that we listen to feedback from the public to make it as safe as possible. “We explored a wide variety of options, with emphasis on aesthetics, safety, ease of use, drainage and cost. Unfortunately, no matter which way we cut it in terms of trying to remove the kerb and its negative effects - balancing that out against best value in trying times financially - nothing provided the certainty that we insisted on other than this optimal solution of removing the kerb completely. This will be expensive but it is a cost we are certain we must pay to ensure this street scheme is what the visitors and residents of Herefordshire deserve. I am only sorry that it has taken so long to address”. More details can be found on the Decisions Page of the Council website. We also published an article back last December (2021) Here
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    If everything goes to plan the new store will open at about 10am in High Town Hereford (former Starbucks unit). The official grand opening is this Saturday (19th) with a LIVE show from Ollie Grove and the good people at Sunshine Radio. The perfect place for natural pamper products, luxury soaps or that quirky gift for someone who has everything. Essential oils, bath bombs, salt lamps, aroma diffusers. They have it all!! So join the thousands of satisfied customers who already shop with them in their stores in Abergavenny, Cwmbran and Monmouth. Steve got in touch with Hereford Voice recently telling us about his new business opening in the city, so we would like to take this opportunity to wish Steve all the very best of luck and we look forward to welcoming Mother Nature's Goodies to our wonderful city of Hereford. 😀
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    Here is a much more recent addition, yes we understand the some news will be published by many local outlets however on this occasion we thought that the illustration was quite amusing and somewhat confusing for some people! Hence our comments, which were clearly echoed by our shadow within their usual 13 minute window It took just 11 minutes this time, our comments clearly triggered a similar reaction..
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    Mason who is a pupil at St Francis Xavier school in Hereford who has recently just turned 9. Mason who is active competition climber and climbs regularly at Green Spider Climbing and at the boulder barn here in Hereford. He has recently finished the season by taking part in the The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) youth climbing series which is a national competition divided in to regions. Mason represents South West North Region which includes Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire in Youth category E... It is a 4 round series consisting of 2 roped rounds and 2 boulder rounds at 4 different centres across the region. Mason has trained hard for this supported by his local climbing community and his hard work has payed off as he secured 4 first places to become series winner of Youth category E South West North. He has had a great first year of competition climbing all over the UK 🏆 Midlands Youth Boulder Cup Winner 🏆 Young Climbers Festival (Sheffield) Winner 🏆 Rock Solid Bouldering Series (North East ) Winner 🏆 BMC YCS South West North Winner 🥈 Youth Boulder Cup (Sheffield) 2nd Place Mason will continue to have fun and train hard over the winter ready to see what next year will bring .. Congratulations Mason on your fabulous success in just your first year! The future looks bright!
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    Old Hereford Pics (theme) As we also have our Old Hereford Pics page which has been operating since 2008, we often share some wonderful old photographs from our archives, however, in recent years some local pages have also jumped on the bandwagon with their groups also promoting the same old picture theme. Remember Chadds department store in Hereford? Who doesn't eh! Well we shared this old photo of one of their shopping bags.. And just 2 minutes later.. Some things do not go unnoticed
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    Themes Nothing more flattering than when someone follows your theme.. Early one Saturday morning we posted a Christmas themed article, you can see it below; You couldn't make it up, but you'll never guess what followed less than an hour later..
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    The fire service had some really challenging weeks over the summer this year, so we thought to would be nice to say 'Thank You For Your Service' (we've been saying this for sometime now, we like the way people in the Us say it to their armed forces). Our thanks to the fire service didn't go unnoticed the following morning.. But the most rewarding element for us was when we had a sincere response back from HWFRS Fire Chief Jon Pryce
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    We all love a nice animal rescue story, this poor horse got itself stuck and needed rescuing! We also do our best to promote 'Positive News' Our positivity sometimes catches on very quickly too! Wow just 2 minutes!
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    The Viking Hoard Day, we were so excited to get this news out there about this great up and coming event Such exciting news does not take long for others to catch on and spread the good word, anyone would start to think we are being stalked! Then of course there was the story about the Viking Hoard we broke about it coming to Hereford.. Our news reach must be bigger than we first thought because in a just a minute it appeared again, how incredible is that!
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    We all love Dinosaurs! This was a great local event and it prompted us to remind people the night before It also promoted a very swift reaction from others, just 9 minutes later 🦖 🦕
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    Always nice to show our appreciation to the Police, who have a very challenging job at the best of times. This was not exactly 'Breaking News' however, it was good news that the quick and brave action of a Police Officer managed to save a man's life after he had fell into the river. This heroic news was soon to become 'Breaking News' somehow just 9 minutes later.
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    Back on the popular doggie theme, sad to learn that PD Rebel had to retire on medical grounds at the start of the year. Just 24 minutes later, others shared the same thoughts
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    Our topics are now entering some record breaking times to reach a wider audience! The Ledbury Carnival is always a popular event This event is so popular and our reach is so big it literally took just 1 MINUTE for others to share!
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    It's always a pleasure to share work of local volunteers supporting some great local charities. This good news attracted the attention of others in just 14 minutes. This is a really lovely story.
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    We were out on Tuesday evening collecting a take-away and noticed that at long last that work had began on repairing the riverside fence that was damaged from the floods in February 2020! It was good to see that the following morning that this long overdue work had reached a wider audience.
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    As we have previously stated doggies attract a lots on attention, especially Police Dogs that are celebrating their 10th birthday, like PD Rhino 🎂 This 10 year celebration coincidently took just 10 minutes to reach a wider audience!
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    We were heading into the city when we noticed a large Police presence outside a residence on Belmont Road early on this Friday morning, so we took photograph and published this article. We have such a captive audience! We are so pleased that our news reaches the people of Herefordshire within just 10 minutes! Some interesting comments from local people
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    A sad day for Bristol Zoo who closed their doors for the last time in September 2022 Our audience is huge and this news again reached a wider audience soon after
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    On a lighter note, the local fire station inn Hereford were having an open day! Some news spreads like wildfires..
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    There have been a spate of some very serious sex attacks in Hereford this year. Some local people decided to hold a vigil near the location on the riverside where many of the attacks have taken place. We thought it was important to highlight and spread the news of this event. It certainly did the trick and appeared within just 3 minutes, that must be a new record!
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    Well as we live in Belmont we could not help but noticed the vehicle And coincidentally the same news article appeared with even more photographs just over 40 minutes later..
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    Lets post a really nice picture and get onto the theme of photography Our photography theme was very contagious that night, it took like just 4 minutes!
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    The local Police caught this motorist speeding along the M50! Guess who else was caught speeding!
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    A good friend of ours who actually works at Tudors sent us the breaking news that Robert Price (formally Tudors) were relocating! How exciting and great to see that this empty unit is now being occupied once again. Good news tends to travel fast in Hereford, this time, just under 13 minutes! WOW A few people are starting to notice..
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