Multiple fire crews are responding to a large grass fire in Presteigne.
Crews from Presteigne, Knighton, Hay on Wye, Llandrindod Wells and Hereford are in attendance.
The fire is in the Burlingjobb area of Presteigne.
Firefighters tackled a similar fire involving 200m of grassland in the same area earlier this month.
More as we get it.
Sheds housing nearly 200,000 broiler chickens at a Herefordshire farm are to be demolished and rebuilt to a higher standard.
A planning application by Avara Foods, one of the county’s largest employers, says the replacement sheds at Parkway Farm, Madley west of Hereford would have the same footprint as the current eight within the two-hectare site, and “will not result in any increase in floor area, bird numbers, or operational intensity”.
