Latest articles from Paul Broome

Link road work will not close major junction

ONE of Hereford’s busiest road junctions won’t be closed during the building of a congestion-busting road. Work on the city’s £30 million link road connecting Edgar Street with Commercial Road is set to begin in a matter of weeks.

Fan’s flag stolen by ‘ultras’

AN ENGLAND fan has spoken of the moment he and two friends had their Hereford FC flag stolen after being pounced on by Russian ‘ultras’. Alex Hempton-Smith was walking to Marseilles’ Stade Velodrome with friends Joe Wright and George Francis when four or five supporters of England’s Group B opponents wrenched the flag from the group and fled.