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Sept March 2014 ISSUEISSUE 42 33 JUNE2014March 2012 2014 This newsletter is distributed to every h ouse in the five parishes to commun icate the activities of the Bishopstone Group Parish Council and other local events

‘Because of them… because of you’

St Michael's Hospice Military Charities Concert 30th Anniversary Thanksgiving featuring Service, Cathedral British Police Symphony Orchestra and th Cantabile Girls’ Choir, Hereford Cathedral 19 October 2014 at 5.30pm. School Finalists: BBC Songs of Praise School Choir of Come to a service of thanksgiving for the Year thirty years of caring by St. Michael’s Hospice, with performances by the Hereford Cathedral Hospice Community Choir and music, 7.30pm 18 October 2014 readings, poetry and drama. There

will also be the opportunity to write All funds raised will be used for the welfare of your own message of support and Service & ex-Service Personnel and their thanks for the Hospice and add them families in to three large apple trees in the Cathedral. Tickets: £20, £15, £10, £5 (includes Souvenir Programme) It will be a great opportunity to meet Available from 28 June at: with old friends, to give thanks for the Hereford Cathedral Shop (01432 374210) past and to hear a bit more about (booking fee applies) how the Hospice will be moving into The Outback, 19a Church Street, Hereford the next thirty years. (01432 275063)

Come Dine at Mine launches in October

for St Michael's Hospice

Come Dine at Mine is a great new way of raising money for St Michael’s Hospice while enjoying the company of friends and family.

Simply invite some friends to your dinner party and ask them to say thank you by making a donation to St Michael’s Hospice.

You can be as creative or as formal as you like: hold a Sunday lunch, a Saturday brunch, a picnic in the park or a midweek lunch with colleagues, the choice is yours. You can even hold a "Come Wine at Mine" party! All we ask is guests make a donation and consider doing the same with their friends.

We can provide you with a welcome pack and Gift Aid Donation envelopes for all your guests. Just give the Fundraising Team a call on 01432 851000 for more details.

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How to make an appointment Just call your nearest Haven to make an appointment. At your first appointment one of our specialist nurses or senior therapists will find out more about you. With this information they will recommend an individually tailored programme of care to best meet your needs. You can then book therapy appointments as well as any classes, workshops and seminars you wish to attend. What do we provide free of charge? We offer you a free personalised programme of therapies to suit your specific needs. This programme usually includes individual assessments and re-assessments with our specialist nurses or senior therapists, a Haven introduction day – to which you are welcome to bring along a supporter – and around ten hours’ of individual therapy time. These therapies can be taken over a number of weeks or months according to your needs. The Haven is a charity. We raise money through various activities so that we can offer many of our services to you for free. We do not receive any NHS or government funding. Groups and classes In addition to your personalised programme, we encourage you to come to as many groups, classes, workshops and seminars as you wish. These are provided for your ongoing support, health and wellbeing. For some of these we suggest a small voluntary donation to help cover our costs. If you cannot afford to donate anything we still encourage you to attend. Please note that all our support groups are free of charge. What if I need help after my personalised programme has ended? No one is turned away from any of our help on financial grounds. A specialist nurse or therapist will discuss with you any ongoing need for therapies you may have. A scale of charges may apply for these. Cost of supplements, remedies, books or equipment if your therapist recommends herbal medicines, nutritional supplements, homeopathic remedies, booklets or CDs, they will explain how you can buy them. If you cannot afford to buy them please speak to one of our receptionists about financial assistance. All appointments, whether they are individual therapy sessions, groups, classes, seminars or workshops, must be booked in advance. Cancellations We understand that on occasion appointments may have to be cancelled at short notice because of exceptional circumstances. But we would be very grateful if you could, where possible, give us at least 24 hours notice if you need to cancel your appointment. This will give us time to rebook the appointment where possible or help minimise the cost to the charity of an unattended appointment. What if I can’t get to a Haven? Our specialist nurses, counsellors, money adviser and nutritional therapists can give you support over the phone. We can also send you our DVDs and audio CDs.

Bishopstone Group Parish Council BishopstoneThe members ofGroup the Parish Parish Council Council are elected to represent all residents of the Thevillages members in theof thegroup Parish and Council can influence are elected decisions to represent made byall theresidents various of the villagesdepartments in the group of the and County can influence Council anddecisions other mGovernmade by theent various organisations such as departmentsthe Police ofand the Fire County Brigade. Council and other Government organisations such as thePlease Police contact and Fire your Brigade. councillor if you have any concerns on: - PleaseHousing contact and your Planning, councillor Roads, if you Traffic, have Publicany conc Transperns on:ort and- Rights of Way, HousingRefuse and Disposal Planning, and Roads, Waste Traffic,Recycling Public or any Transp otherort lo andcal Rightsissues. of Way, Refuse Disposal and Waste Recycling or any other local issues.

ListList of ofParish Parish Councillors Councillors Village represented Name Tel. number VillageBishopstone represented NameTrevor Hunt Tel. 590325 number Bishopstone Trevor Hunt 590325 John Macklin (Chairman) 590620 John Macklin (Chairman ) 590620 Rosemary Morgan 590282 Rosemary Morgan 590282 John Verry 590680 Bridge Sollers JohnLillian Verry Allsopp 590680 590210 Bridge Sollers Byford Muriel Holmes 590233

Sue Hubbard (Vice-Chairman) 590319 Byford Muriel Holmes 590233 Penny Redshaw 590634 Kenchester SueSerena Hubbard Crump (Vice-Chairman) 590319 590644 PennyPetra Redshaw Hickey 590634 590630 Mansell Gamage Cathie Draper 590284 Kenchester SerenaAnn ApperleyCrump 590644 590485

Mansell Gamage Cathie Draper 590284 Katrina Bevis 07980 652868 Clerk to the Council Email : [email protected] Clerk to the Council Rosemary Plant 01432 870720 Parish Paths Officers

Village represented Name Tel. number Bishopstone John Macklin 590620 ParishByford Paths & Mansell Officers Gamage Sue Hubbard 590319 VillageBridge represented Sollers NameLillian Allsopp Tel. 590210 number BishopstoneKenchester JohnJohn Macklin Macklin 590620 590620 Byford & Mansell Gamage Sue Hubbard 590319 Bridge Sollers KenchesterHerefordshire County Councillor John Macklin 590620 Adrian Blackshaw Tel: 01432 260201

(contact via Herefordshire Council Offices) Herefordshire County Councillor Adrian Blackshaw Tel: 01432 260201 (contact via Herefordshire Council Offices)

ParishParish Council Council meeting Meetings dates 2014/2015 Parish Council meeting dates 2013th th TheSeptember next 2012 11th, Parish November Council 13Meetings, January will 8th be on 2015, Thursdays March July12 ,12th; May 14th 10th January,th 14th March,th 9th May, 11th July, 12th September and 14th Sept.13th;November.July 9 , September Nov.8th 10 , November 12th TheseThese will be held inat theThe New New Bridge Bridge Community Community Cent Centre restarting starting at 7.30at 7.30 pm pm.

Parish Plan Members of Focus groups, ensuring that the Bishopstone Group Parish Plan is implimented, are as follows:

Traffic and Rights of Way John Verry and Sue Hubbard Local services Contact Clerk Recycling Penny Redshaw Community Centre John Macklin and Sue Hubbard

Web Page Readers with access to a computer can read Council notices, past issues of this newsletter and other local information on the Parish Council Web site. This can be reached by logging on to www.bishopstonegroupparish.co.uk

Notice Boards The appointed key holders for the Notice Boards in each village are:- Bishopstone John Macklin Tel. 590620 Bridge Sollers John Macklin Tel. 590620 Byford Penny Redshaw Tel. 590634 Byford Common Sue Hubbard Tel. 590319 Kenchester Petra Hickey Tel. 590630 Mansell Gamage Sue Hubbard Tel. 590319 Please contact one of the above to display any article of public interest.

Recycling Facility There is a local recycling facility at Oakchurch Farm Shop on the main A438 near Staunton-on-Wye.

Sandbag provision . TheThe sandbagsandbag stores are atat thethe bottom bottom of of Bishon Bishon Lane Lane, Bishopstone, Bishopstone, (contact in Mansell Gamagenumber 01981and at 590620) Bridge Sollers.and at Byford Common (contact number 01981 590319). InSandbags times of are flooding also available call 01981 at the 590620 Herefordshire for assistan Councilce with Highways sandbags. Depot, Unit 3, Thorn Business Park, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT. Advice about flooding and road closures is available on the Herefordshire Council website www.herefordshire.gov.uk

Parish Council Chairman’s Report September 2014

On July 10 th at the Parish Council meeting Councillors considered two planning applications. 1 Proposed sub-division of property to create two residential dwellings at Mansell Court, Mansell Gamage. All Councillors supported this application.

2 To consider an additional 10 touring caravans on the existing site and up to 6 yurts on a new site at Bye Cross Farm, Moccas. There were no objections from the councillors to this application.

Mr Philip Pankhurst- Balfour Beatty (contractors to Herefordshire Council) representative was also present at this meeting to provide information to Councillors about the lengthsman scheme. He also agreed to meet Councillors in their parishes to discuss and log highway defects, pot holes, blocked drains, etc. As a follow up from this meeting, with Councillor John Verry we met with Philip Pankhurst on July 24 th to walk the road from the top of Bishopstone village down to Kenchester marking all the gullies ditches and road drains with a white arrows on the road. They will be cleaned out and the connecting pipes either side of the road unblocked. Balfour Beatty team will hopefully carry out this work before the winter, this should help stop the water running onto the road and causing flooding that has been a problem we have been plagued with for many years. After our meeting Phillip proceeded to Byford and met with Councillors Sue Hubbard and Cathie Draper and Penny Redshaw to look at highway problems in Byford and Mansell Gamage, there had been so many defects in Bishopstone that his battery had gone flat on his laptop, so Sue, Cathie and Penny logged all the highway defects in their parishes and these have now been passed on to Balfour Beatty.

At long last a new large diameter pipe has been installed under the road at Shetton and the lower drain by the railway bridge has been dug out and cleared this should help with the flooding in this area. An extraordinary Meeting of the Parish Council was called on 7th August to consider a planning application from the National Trust to erect a large notice board on the north side of the New Weirs entrance to advertise forthcoming events. There were no objections from the councillors to this application. The Parish Council was notified that the appeal against the refusal to build a new house at the Lord Nelson Antiques Centre was dismissed by the Inspector. The Parish Council was also notified that the approval to build four Broiler houses at the Flag Station Mansel Lacy has been quashed for the time being.

John Macklin (Chairman)

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Coffee and Chat ……..

– a Coffee Morning with extras A chance to meet old friends or make some new ones, catch up on local news, or try a game of Trionimoes (like dominoes only more so!). Borrow books and magazines from the free library, use the free broadband internet access and wi-fi and take home some goodies from the cake, plants and produce stall. At the New Bridge Community Centre Every Wednesday 10.30 till noon

Bishopstone Church Forthcoming Events

Friday 10th October at 7 pm Curry and Games evening.

Saturday 13th December from 10 am to 1 pm Christmas Wreath- making Workshop (limited places so book early!) Contact Sybella Kirkbride 01981 590451

Both events will be held at the New Bridge Community Centre.

Film nights

at the New Bridge Community Centre

Doors open 7.00pm Film starts 7.15pm

£5 TO INCLUDE DRAW & LIGHT REFRESHMENTS

Saturday October 4 th 12 Years a Slave In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Saturday November 1 st Captain Phillips 2013 American drama thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring and Barkhad

Abdi. The film is inspired by the true story of the 2009 Alabama hijacking , an incident during which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean led by .

Saturday December 6 th Saving Mr. Banks 2013 American-Australian-British biographical comedy-drama film directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. Centered on the development of the 1964 Walt Disney Studios film Mary Poppins , the film stars Emma Thompson as author P. L. Travers and Tom Hanks as filmmaker Walt Disney .

West Mercia Police

Hereford Rural North Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) [email protected] September 2014

Your team PC Brian HILLSTEAD

PCSO Dean WALL West Mercia Police is currently PCSO Elena EKANITE recruiting Special Constables. We are particularly interested in people to volunteer in Herefordshire and Shropshire. About your team Safer Neighbourhood Teams work with Special constables are volunteers local people and partners to identify, tackle who carry out a variety of roles and solve issues that matter to the alongside regular officers to help community where you live. police their communities. They have Making neighbourhoods safer by cutting the same powers as regular police day to day crime and anti-social behaviour officers (e.g. being able to arrest is at the heart of keeping people in West people), wear a similar uniform and Mercia safe. Thanks to an investment in face the same challenges. But the mobile tablet style computers, these will role is a part-time one – a minimum enable officers to spend more time on of four hours each week, normally at patrol on the street and in neighbourhoods. weekends or evenings. Officers will continue to come to people If you are interested and want to when they need them and provide a high make a difference then please follow quality service however you contact us - in the link below or make contact with person (on the street, at community bases your local Police service. and at partners and communities together [PACT] meetings), on the phone or online. http://www.westmercia.police.uk/specials/

Get in touch ℡ 101 to talk to your local SNT/report a crime  [email protected]  www.westmercia.police.uk If you would prefer to report a crime / @HerefordCops anonymously please contact West Only call 999 in an emergency, when a crime is in Mercia CRIMESTOPPERS 0800 555 111 . progress or life is in danger BISHOPSTONE GROUP NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN THE STORY SO FAR Neighbourhood Planning, part of the Localism Act, gives communities through their Parish Council an opportunity to shape planning policies at a local level.

It is not compulsory to take part: Bishopstone Group Parish Council felt it was a positive initiative and voted to become involved. We are guided by Herefordshire Council Planning Department and have received a grant from the Community Development Foundation to cover preliminary costs. Herefordshire Housing strategy has identified a need for 5,300 new dwellings in the county by 2013. Within that number Bishopstone is identified for a growth target of 18% - 16 houses. This may include existing planning permissions. Byford is restricted to homes for people with local connections and ‘affordable housing’. The other villages and hamlets will only develop through strict guidelines (Policy R42). The first step has been the Neighbourhood questionnaire resulting in a substantial response of 86 %. All questionnaire responses are being analysed and considered carefully. Residents were also invited to view the questionnaire results and to make further comments at an Open Day at the New Bridge Community Centre on September 6 th. Thanks to all residents for their involvement, opinions and comments.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT Following the Open Day, work will continue on analysing the questionnaires and considering the new comments. Further information will be gathered with regards to flood areas, areas of ancient and historic importance, Listed Buildings, local agricultural issues and other considerations which could affect development in the Parishes. Draft policies for the whole group will be written encapsulating the needs and requirements of the residents whilst offering the Council clear guidance as to what the residents and Parish Council see as an acceptable structure for future growth. The policies are checked for compliance with the Core Strategy by Herefordshire Council Neighbourhood Planning Team. These draft policies will be made available to residents for further comment either at one large or several village-based meetings. From these final policies will be written. The final plan is examined by Herefordshire’s Director of Planning before moving to an independent examination and further checks. A referendum is then held for residents. It requires over 50% of voters to be in favour so that it becomes legally adopted. The plan will remain in place for 10 years after which it may be reviewed and updated.

September 1914 – the Belgian Refugees Arrive by Sue Hubbard In August 1914 German armies entered Belgium and Luxembourg, the first step in what was intended as a lightning campaign to encircle and capture Paris. Unfortunately for them the Belgian army had other ideas and although vastly outnumbered succeeded in holding up the German offensive for nearly a month, giving the French and British forces time to organise. Partly through anger at the delay to their plans and partly through fear of potential saboteurs the German army turned savagely on the Belgian population, killing civilians and destroying houses, businesses and historic cultural treasures such as the priceless mediaeval library at Louvain. Refugees began to pour out of Belgian into Holland and France while about 200,000 made the longer journey to Britain. Aided by the official Belgian Refugee Committee the majority of these were settled in London and the larger manufacturing towns but other areas were also asked to play their part. On September 10 th 1914 the first small group of Belgians arrived at Barrs Court station followed on the 23 rd by a further group of 20 including a family with nine children. By January 1915 a total of 375 people of all ages had found sanctuary in Herefordshire. One of them wrote to the London Depot of Refugees “We consider Hereford a paradise. English hospitality has been a veritable revelation to us.” It had been decided that it would be easier and better to house refugee families individually rather than grouping them in large hostel - type accommodation. A considerable number of properties were therefore needed and the county rose generously to the challenge. Housing committees were set up locally at Weobley, Dilwyn, Breinton and Credenhill and individuals offered houses for the purpose including the Rev George Davenport at Foxley and Lady Evelyn Cotterell who made Downshill Cottage available. In Hereford the City Gas Committee offered the Gasworks manager’s house during his absence on active service. Many of the families arrived with little apart from the clothes they were wearing, and collections of clothes and money were made in order to provide them with what they needed. By the end of 1915 over £1300 (£56,000 in today’s money) had been donated in cash as well as many gifts of clothes, food and personal items. The Belgians were eager to support themselves as far as possible, and many of them were skilled workers – trades recorded among them included glass- blower, plumber, carpenter, tailor, coppersmith, laceworker, chair maker, coal miner and farm labourer. Most of them found work locally, adapting to English ways and helping to fill some of the gaps caused by so many young local men enlisting. … continued over …

… continued … Error! Their children attended local schools and quickly b egan to pick up English from theirPortway fellow pupils. Other men, particularly those with experience in metal www.facebook.com/ portwayinnherefordshire working, were sent to factories such as Longbridge at Birmingham which had been harnessed to the war effort and was busy turning out munitions. In December 1914 the Mayoress of Hereford organised a Christmas party at the ShirehallInn for all the Belgians then in Herefordshire. There were fairy lights, a Christmas tree loaded with gifts and a lavish tea followed by speeches of welcome. A Belgian priest, himself a refugee, responded on behalf of his fellow countrymen “You have made us so welcome and treated us with such consideration that we have almost forgotten that we are exiles in a foreign country.” The last of the Belgian refugees left Herefordshire in March 1919

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Wackey Walkers

Muriel and Dennis Holmes led the May walk from The Bay Horse on a rainy day. From Kings Acre Road/Huntington Lane we joined the footpath alongside Yazor Brook to the Roman road. From her e we walked towards Stetton Sugwas Nursing Home and returned past the Priory Hotel and the new livestock market to the Bay Horse.

The June walk, led by Pete and Jan Kersley, met by St Cuthbert’s church in Holme Lacy. The walk took us around Holme Lacy Ho use to the bridge over the old railway line on the B4399 and along the original platform of the station. From here we joined the as it meandered back towards the church and enjoyed a picnic lunch beside the Wye.

In July, Jim and Wyn Fisk led a walk from the Boughton Arms at Peterchurch. Pausing by the Church to see the headstone of Robert Jones who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his role at Rorke’s Drift in the war in South Africa against the Zulus, we walked westward along the line of the o ld Golden Valley railway returning on a circular route to the pub.

The August walk was led by David and Hazel Macklin. It started from the Bridge Inn, Michaelchurch Escley and climbed up the road towards Craswall before taking the track which passed beh ind Michaelchurch Court. Dropping down to pass the school, we climbed back up to the ridge which gave outstanding close views of the Black Mountains before walking back downhill to the Inn for lunch.

The next walk will be on Saturday 27th September. Meet at the Boat Inn Whitney-on- Wye at 10am to order food if you have not already done so and start walking at 10.15. This is a circular walk around Whitney and Brilley on paths, tracks and minor roads with a couple of moderate hilly bits. Could be muddy in pla ces so wear suitable footwear. Contact Sue on 01981590319 for further details and menus.

Walks usually take place on either the third or fourth Saturday in each month. They often start at a Public House where bar snacks can be enjoyed after the walk. Many walkers stay, but this is optional! The starting place and time are announced in the

County Section of the Hereford Times under Bishopstone.

“Harvest in The Valleys” By Russell Carrington frigates and to chase another five into Donegal Bay. William expected to get £80 in prize money which was badly needed to buy a new uniform as the one he was wearing had been ruined by In case you hadn’t noticed the steady drone of combine harvesters working late into seawater and the effect of constantly going aloft as part of his duties. Whenthe night,he next the writes summer he is notgrain so harvestsanguine; is the very priz muche money at full will pace be much in the less fields than surroundinghe hoped as manyour ofvillages, the captured and by ships the were time too you badly read damaged this probabl to bey taken largely into complete. his majesty’s service, and he can’tOf course,get hold trueof some to form money the due weather to him deterioratedbecause he is juinst Plymouth as the crops and the came papers ripe he and has at to sign arehome in London. we’ve Then had tohe snatchneeds to a buyfew warm half daysclothes here for and an expected there between cruise to the take showers troops toto get besiegein what Belle we Isle,can. but What after we a “a really tedious need cruise is some of six hotweeks su nnyduring weather which thatwe carr makesied away the grain two Topcrackle Masts inand the three ‘ear’ of (seedthe knees head) whereby and help the Gunsthings a refl owsecured through on the the Main harvester Deck” that they bit return toeasier. England. Hopefully There are Septemberrumours of sailings will bring to Lisbon us a final, the Westwave Indies of warm or the weather, Mediterranean, although and the soevenings he has to findhave clothes already suited become to a hotquite climate. cool. By June the Canada is off Cadiz and about to join Earl St Vincent after a very quick passage, “running upwards of a thousand miles in five days” in pursuit of a French and Spanish fleet of over 40 ships of the line. I really enjoy this time of year as it is like collecting the prize for the previous year’s Here William’s letters end, but there is a final twist to the story, when a Plymouth tailor wrote to Mrsefforts. Evans However,in 1800 asking my herday-job to pay has a bill been for pretty£4-14-3 busy that tooWilliam so I’ve had not run had up while much apparently time to claimingtake part to bein relatedthe hands-on to her. Sheexcitement, replied with leaving some myannoyance father tothat largely William manage Nutting on was his no own. relationPlus I’ve “a alsoyoung been man away of that for namea week is forone the of theannual sons European of our former Rural butler Youth --- rally of course which histhis debts year are brought no concern together of mine”70 young people from 16 countries. Fortunately on this occasion I didn’t have to travel far – only to Port Talbot in Wales. A famously industrial place but one that surprised me with its beautiful scenery just a few miles from the great billowing steel works. We were located at the wonderful Margam Park which from its rural setting actually overlooked the angular skyline and flaming torches of the heavy industry.

Here the theme for the week was ‘leadership in the community’ – using workshops and innovative study sessions to learn best practice from each other. On one particular day we took a trip into some of the still very deprived communities in the welsh mining valleys. It was a real contrast to the lives many of us lead. However, the inspiration from the day was that one particular community had come together and established a mountain biking centre bringing adrenalin fuelled tourists to come and discover the scenic mountain trails. A huge success, it has brought much benefit to the ancillary businesses too – for example guesthouses in the valley are now 35 in number, up from just one 10 years ago.

We all took a lot from the week and ideas will no doubt be filtering back into rural communities throughout Europe as I write.

Whilst it is hard to be away at a busy time I’ve come to learn that it can do no harm; enabling others to discover new ways to manage in one’s absence, and in fact is very important for the mind to get away and return with fresh ideas for our own valleys.

Russ Carrington Twitter: @CiderRuss Russ is a young farmer from Bishopstone, runs the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association, and helps out on other Herefordshire farms when time permits.

British Red Cross Italian Seed Evening

Roll up for a gastronomic tour of every region of Italy, from the Romans to the present day. Paulo Arrigo, is the founder of the company ‘Seeds of Italy’ and will be giving a talk which takes you from seed to plate! Franchi is the oldest family-run seed company in the world, est. 1783 and still in the same family after seven generations. 1783 was the year the Montgolfier brothers flew their hot air balloon over Paris, the bounty was still being built and to put things into perspective Mozart wrote his first mass There are no garden centres in Italy. Instead you buy seeds where you buy food and, if you go to an Italian market you buy tomato seed, tomato plants, tomatoes and everything made with the tomato. Roses are gardening in Italy, veg is Food. Each region will have its own varieties which they will use completely differently from the next region. The event is designed to appeal to everyone, especially lovers of everything Italian. There will be live music, food, and a complimentary glass of fizz. There will also be a pay bar. We would especially like to thank our sponsors Augustine and Maureen Hope, the owners of Whitney Court, for their kind hospitality and sponsorship of this event. Date: 16 th October Where: Whitney Court, Whitney-on-Wye, Hereford, HR3 6HT Tickets: £75.00 per couple and £40 per person If you are interested and would like more information please get in touch with Caroline Savage; [email protected] 07738 340581 or write to me at British Red Cross , 6 Harrow Road, Plough Lane, Hereford, HR4 0EH. Cheques are made payable to the British Red Cross . All proceeds of this event are going to locally, volunteer run services provided by the Red Cross .

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