The airwaves and social media were humming last week after Question Time at the Courtyard

Happy New Year! And a very prosperous and peaceful 2018 to all Hereford Times readers.

A very Merry Christmas to all Gazette readers!

One of the innumerable joys of Herefordshire lies in all the amazing community organisations and groups that knit the county together.

For the fifth year running, last Saturday was Small Business Saturday: a great opportunity to highlight the quality of our small local businesses, and encourage everyone to get behind them.

After the weighty constitutional issues tackled in my last column, it is a delight to return this week to local issues, and sing the praises of local citizens. 

I am constantly amazed by the generosity of many Herefordians.

Video of opening of GB Electrical and Building Services in Hereford.

Readers, this is normally a gentle and well-meaning, indeed positively herbivorous, column; a column which, at the Editor’s behest, busies itself with the joys or no of Ross-on-Wye and South Herefordshire, and rarely ventures into the murky waters of National Politics.