Rome wasn't built in a day, and Gazette readers will be as delighted as I am at the news that full fibre optic broadband is coming to Ross-on-Wye. And the digital transformation of Herefordshire that began in 2010 continues elsewhere across the county as well.  

As readers will know, ever since I first called for a university in Herefordshire in 2008, I have been working to make it happen.

Jesse Norman backs Small business Saturday and encourages people to support our fantastic businesses across Herefordshire.

Jesse Norman MP welcomes the launch of the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) in Hereford.

It was three weeks ago. We sat, stationary in my car, on Edgar Street.

The cars did not move. Nor did the trucks, the lorries, the buses. All around us the engines throbbed and hummed, pushing out carbon and particulate emissions.

There is very little good news in this pandemic. But one great thing has been the brilliant and creative way in which the Market House has evolved as a community hub.

I was appalled to see a famous photograph of Violette Szabo captioned as Erna Wallisch in the Daily Telegraph, both in print and online, on Saturday 17th October.

Jesse Norman was on BBC Hereford & Worcester this morning talking to Elliott and Toni about the problems faced by students from Hereford Sixth Form College, Herefordshire and Ludlow College, Hereford College of Arts and other schools and colleges trying to catch trains using the much-reduced services from Transport for Wales.

Herefordshire is full of hidden gems. One such is the ruined medieval Blackfriars Priory and Rose Garden in the city, a gorgeous oasis of calm just a couple of minutes' walk from the city centre.