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Pack up a picnic and enjoy the great outdoors

1:20pm Thursday 21st August 2008

PACK a picnic, lace up your walking boots and put your best foot forward for a day that will cost you very little, but give you an unrivalled taste of the great outdoors and the beauty of the Herefordshire landscape.

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Adventures on offer at Weston Park

1:19pm Thursday 21st August 2008

IN Staffordshire, there’s more low-cost fun to be had as Weston Park has extended its Kids Go Free voucher for the whole of August. Children can gain free entry to the park and gardens by downloading a voucher direct from the website at weston-park.com When accompanied by a paying adult, each voucher entitles free entry for one child to the 1,000-acre estate which includes an adventure playground, giant outdoor games in the courtyard, a medieval deer park and Pendrell’s Cave.

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Step back in time

1:18pm Thursday 21st August 2008

JUST six miles beyond Abergavenny lies the World Heritage site of Blaenavon, offering a fascinating day packed with activities.

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Be brought to book at Cathedral

The Chained Library

1:17pm Thursday 21st August 2008

WHEN it comes to thinking about things to do during the summer holidays it’s very easy to forget about the attractions to be found close to home.

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Hop to it and save a frog

Hop to it and save a frog

9:12pm Friday 15th August 2008

THIS year is the Year of the Frog and at Bristol Zoo you can not only adopt a frog and help the global effort to save 2000 endangered species of amphibians, you can also play some frog-friendly games, including 'newts and crosses'.

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Gardens go on show

1:55pm Thursday 7th August 2008

MOORS Meadow Garden and Nursery Moors Meadow is an intriguing and eclectic garden, full of appeal to the true plantsman.

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Back to nature

1:50pm Thursday 7th August 2008

GET up close with nature with the WildPlay Nature Rangers who are running events for children (aged up to 13 years) and families to experience the outdoors and have some fun.

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Swing into summer fun

Treetop fun at Go Ape

1:48pm Thursday 7th August 2008

GET back to nature and challenge yourself and your kids with a visit to Go Ape in the Forest of Dean.

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On target for a good day out

1:48pm Thursday 7th August 2008

A WIDE range of outdoor activities is on offer at Top Barn Activity Centre near Worcester.

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Building on history

1:49pm Thursday 7th August 2008

SOME of the best days out are the ones which combine indoors and outdoors – and there are plenty of places within reach of Hereford that hit that particular spot.

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National News

Titan prisons a 'massive mistake'

The UK prison population has topped 90,000 a report says

Updated 7:35am Thursday 28th August 2008

Pressing ahead with plans to build three huge "Titan" prisons would be a "costly and hugely damaging mistake", the Government has been warned.


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Rapper using his experience to help others

INSPIRED by a tough childhood, a rapper from Herefordshire is using his experiences to help youngsters.

From Bizet to the Bee Gees

THIS year’s Summer Proms and fireworks at Malvern Showground promises some exciting orchestral manoeuvres from the English Symphony Orchestra as they present A Night at the Opera on Saturday, August 30.

Anne Cottringer, author of Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero
Summer of success for local author

IT’S been an exciting summer for Herefordshire author Anne Cottringer as her most recent children’s book, her twelfth, became one of THE children’s books of the summer.

Precision by Janice Dale
Varied work on display in Courtyard's new exhibition

4 THREE new exhibitions can be seen at The Courtyard as it re-opens following its annual closure for maintenance, which has included an upgrade of the lighting in the balcony exhibition areas.

All the ingredients for a good summer read
All the ingredients for a good summer read

THREE very different books by three Herefordshire authors offer an interesting choice of summer reading.


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