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County planners will consider next week proposals to build four homes in a village near Hereford which were deferred over flooding concerns.

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A Herefordshire entrepreneur has been named Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year for the Midlands at this year's Great British Entrepreneur Awards. 

Herefordshire Council will consider plans to build three homes in a hamlet near the Welsh border nex week.

Police investigating a robbery in Caldicot are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is asking that only patients who have pre-arranged appointments or pre-agreed visits, or those who need urgent A&E treatment, attend Hereford County Hospital.

Leominster has been awarded £1.8million from the government.

Police in Hereford are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted.

A trial's being launched in Hay on Wye which will allow customers to make free cash withdrawals from tills in certain convenience stores.

Two GP practices in the Forest of Dean could merge into a new £5.4million surgery if plans are given the go-ahead.

City councillors will tonight debate whether it should do “all it can” to stop a Gloucester Sainsbury’s store from closing.

Plans to extend a city centre bike and car ban have been called “embarrassing” by campaigners.

Bosses at a county prison have been told it ‘cannot be considered safe’ in a damning report.

Putting electric car charging points in two of Powys’ major towns will be done in a second phase of the project, if more funding is found.

The UK has reported 6,634 new coronavirus cases - the highest daily total ever recorded.

Thousands of GPs and nurses are being forced to stay off work as they cannot get tested for COVID-19, the professional body for general practitioners has said.

Rishi Sunak has unveiled a new scheme to support wages during the pandemic but admitted that it will leave many facing an uncertain future.

The acting head of the UK's court service has apologised to a black barrister who was mistaken for a defendant three times in one day.

The UK has reported 6,634 new coronavirus cases - the highest daily total ever recorded.

Denmark, Slovakia and Iceland have been added to England's travel quarantine list - meaning travellers returning from 4am on Saturday will have to self-isolate for two weeks.

Rishi Sunak has unveiled a new scheme to support wages during the pandemic but admitted that it will leave many facing an uncertain future.

European Union health officials are urging member nations to move quickly to slow the latest wave of COVID-19 infections to avoid a repeat of the broad lockdowns that paralysed the continent's economy in the spring.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang says he considered leaving Arsenal but the chance to improve under Mikel Arteta convinced him to sign a new contract.

Lewis Hamilton expects new guidelines to be issued around the messaging that can be displayed by drivers after he wore a T-shirt at the Tuscan GP about the shooting of Breonna Taylor.

Marland Yarde put out a strongly-worded tweet a month ago condemning the treatment of some of his South African team-mates at Sale who had received death threats after choosing not to take the knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Former Australia cricketer and commentator Dean Jones has died from a heart attack in Mumbai at the age of 59.

Pride was restored for the Sky Sports NFL team in Week Two as Jeff Reinebold returned 15 correct predictions (out of 16!) to beat the competition... can Neil Reynolds go one better in Week Three?

An episode of Britain's Got Talent in which Alesha Dixon wore a Black Lives Matter necklace has led to 1,900 complaints to Ofcom.

George Clooney says he's "ashamed" of America's criminal justice system after the decision was made not to charge officers for causing the death of Breonna Taylor.

Bafta has announced a major shake-up of its film awards but says it can't guarantee there won't be a repeat of this year's all white and all male shortlists.

Zayn Malik has confirmed the birth of his baby daughter with girlfriend Gigi Hadid.

Ryan Reynolds could be about to take on his next big role - as an investor in a Welsh football club.

Scientists have solved the mystery of Jupiter's polygon storms, which were first spotted by NASA's Juno space probe in 2019.

Every person who downloads the NHS coronavirus contact tracing app will be helping "make the country a safer place", the health secretary has told Sky News.

The upward trend in positive cases continues in the latest statistics for Test and Trace, which show that 19,278 new people in England tested positive between 10 September and 16 September.

British volunteers are to be deliberately infected with COVID-19 to test whether a vaccine offers any protection.

Scientists studying the world's deepest diving mammal were left twiddling their thumbs when timing a dive off the coast of North Carolina.

A humpback whale that made a wrong turn and entered a crocodile-infested river in Australia has managed to escape back to sea.

A football match in West Yorkshire was forced to stop for around 20 minutes after an alpaca invaded the pitch.

Sets of 120,000-year-old footprints belonging to humans have been discovered in Saudi Arabia.

New coronavirus restrictions are "necessary" but were "not inevitable" and represent the government's failure, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.

Rishi Sunak has unveiled a new scheme to support wages during the pandemic but admitted that it will leave many facing an uncertain future.

A speedboat skims across the waters of the Piquiri river in central Brazil; on board are a group of vets and animal trackers.

An amateur German football team lost a match 37-0 after they socially distanced from their opponents due to concerns about the coronavirus.