Art: Painting of the Last Supper in a parish church in Herefordshire ‘may be a lost work by Titian’

A discoloured painting of the biblical Last Supper that has hung in a parish church in Herefordshire for 110 years may be a lost work by the Venetian master Titian. Art historian and conservator Ronald Moore found evidence to link the artwork in St Michael and All Angels church in Ledbury with the 16th Century … Read more

Environment Agency launches urgent probe after farmer bulldozed Herefordshire riverside beauty spot

A farmer who used a 16-ton bulldozer to destroy a riverside beauty spot has said he acted to protect local homes from flooding. John Price – a local potato and cattle farmer – dredged a section of the river Lugg near Leominster in Hertfordshire and reportedly stripped a mile-long stretch of the bank of trees … Read more

Coronavirus: Four workers ‘escape’ Herefordshire vegetable farm

Four vegetable pickers have escaped a farm in Herefordshire where 75 people working and living on the site in trailers tested positive for coronavirus. The A S Green And Co workers, three having had the killer bug, are believed to have ran across fields near Rook Row Farm in Mathon. Following the mass outbreak, 200 staff … Read more

Four workers ‘escape’ from coronavirus-hit vegetable farm in Herefordshire

Four vegetable pickers have fled the farm where 75 people working and living on the site in trailers tested positive for coronavirus.  The workers, three of whom had tested positive for Covid-19, are believed to have run across fields near Rook Row Farm in order to escape after staff working for A S Green And Co … Read more

73 workers test positive for coronavirus at Herefordshire veg farm with 200 staff forced to isolate

New covid hotspot as 73 workers who live together in trailers test positive for coronavirus at a Herefordshire vegetable farm that supplies Tesco, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda and M&S – and another 200 staff are forced to isolate on site 200 workers at A S Green And Co are being asked to self-isolate on the site … Read more

Robert Jenrick faces fresh claims he broke lockdown rules as Herefordshire home is his holiday home

The Cabinet minister accused of breaking lockdown rules came under fire again last night after neighbours said the mansion where he is staying is just his occasional holiday home.  Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, a key player in the Government’s coronavirus response, claimed he had not flouted his own advice by travelling 150 miles to the … Read more