PAUL Keetch has been back on the stump in Hereford.

Mr Keetch, who held the Hereford seat as a Liberal Democrat from 1997 to 2010, joined Lucy Hurds’ Lib Dem campaign in High Town at the weekend.

Now a freelance political and historical adviser, Mr Keetch said he was keen to do more in person for the Hurds campaign but has been recovering from major reconstructive surgery on his shoulder.

Having got the “green light” from doctors just last week, he said he hoped to be back in the city before polling day, having been pleased to catch up with “so many old friends”.