An item in the Hereford Times caught my eye last week.

For my 43rd birthday last week I was given a book called Herefordshire Privies.

Just after 6am yesterday, John Holliday put on a scarlet jacket, tight white jodhpurs and braved the pouring rain and dawn cold to spend the next few hours chasing - in vain, as it turned out - a fox across the countryside.

Railways properties are always popular with buyers - but tracking them down is never easy. John Coutts reports on where to look to find your ideal stationmaster's cottage

No matter where you live in the world, whether in Bedford or among the Bedouins, when it comes to local events 90 per cent of the work is always done by 10 per cent of the community.

The High Court blocked plans to house more than 1,000 migrant fruit-pickers in caravans at a tiny hamlet yesterday. Herefordshire council, which refused a planning application by Europe's largest strawberry grower, S&A Property Ltd, won a temporary injunction a week ago.

<preform>Aldershot Town 1<br> Hereford United 1</preform>

FA CUP THIRD-ROUND REPLAYS Conference side take Leicester to extra- time while Robson's Magpies soar above Graham's humiliated cockerels

`In the constituency he should get out there as the MP, literally as if nothing had happened'

BE THANKFUL for small mercies - Britain is not running out of mistletoe. That small skinny plant with the milky white berries which before the concept of sexual harassment was invented provided an excuse for stealing a kiss from all and sundry is flourishing in its traditional haunts, according to a report.

Nap: Kingsmark (Catterick 1.00) NB: Maremma (Catterick 1.30)

Hereford United 0 Leicester City 0

Hereford United 0

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