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There is enough interest in running a community bakery in a Herefordshire town to take the idea to the next stage and seek funding for it.

Herefordshire Council is pushing ahead with plans to increase the use of 20mph zones on the county’s roads with a £100,000 investment in working up the policy.

Building society Nationwide plans to refresh the look of its Herefordshire branches, as part of a commitment to buck the national trend by investing locally.

Shropshire Council had a minute of pause to remember four teenagers who were found dead on Tuesday.

Ludlow Town Council has celebrated National Tree Week with a pledge to becoming more bio-diverse.

Globally renowned pop-star Anne-Marie will perform in Ludlow next summer.

The mother of one of the four teenagers found dead after a car crash in North Wales has said she wishes she could wake from her "nightmare".

South Shropshire MP, Philip Dunne, has congratulated four local charities for receiving the Kings Award for Voluntary Service.  

Shropshire food banks are facing increased financial pressure this winter as they spend more on to keep families fed in the county.

Plans to build a new hangar for light aircraft at Herefordshire’s only licensed airfield have been approved.

Visitors to Much Wenlock Museum can learn all about a new exhibit – which may have played a part in medieval forgery – thanks to the generosity of a detectorist who made the find.

Mandy Thorn MBE DL, The High Sheriff for Shropshire 2023, has supported the South Shropshire Inter Faith Forum to mark Inter Faith Week by planting a plum tree at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms.

Plans to create a brand new health and wellbeing centre at Severn Centre in Highley have taken an important step forward, say health bosses at NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.

Ludlow Cancer Support Group has been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service.

Firefighters at Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service’s Malvern Fire Station are holding a car wash to benefit two great causes.

Another bank has closed down its branch in Leominster.

Households in Herefordshire looking after Ukrainian guests are to get an extra £200 a month to cope with the extra cost of winter.

Plans to build a large modern house by a Herefordshire hamlet, and to demolish nearby farm buildings, have been approved.

The number of homeless people in Herefordshire being housed in budget hotels has surged in the last 18 months.

A new group to help food and drink businesses across the Marches work more closely together, develop international markets and access specialist support has been launched at an online event.