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• Assurances given over council overspend

  Herefordshire Council overspent by nearly £9 million in the year to the start of last month, despite the council’s best efforts to rein in costs.

• Spending on lethal tree disease announced

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• Noise concerns over resubmitted plan for 85 homes near roundabout

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• Town council to restart negotiations to open Oswestry cinema venue

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• Concern grows for missing Herefordshire man

  Police are searching for a missing man in Herefordshire.

• Parents in Shropshire without permits could be fined £70

  Parents who drop off their children at the school gates without a permit could be fined up to £70 as part of new road safety measures.

• Man prosecuted for working unlicensed as a school security guard

  Worcester Magistrates’ Court sentenced Steven Richardson to a 12-month community order, with a 120-hour unpaid work requirement, and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of £144 plus court costs of £500, amounting to a total of £644.