The lovely Gravity fanzine did an interview with us. Here’s what was said.   When was Hereford Heckler founded? Who by, what form did it take, and what was your motivation in starting it? We started the Heckler in 2008 as a bi-monthly, paper-only newsletter. Up until last year it was published by the Hereford [...]

Much like Herefordshire’s Tory-controlled council are imposing a raft of cuts here, so the Green Party-controlled Brighton & Hove City Council are doing the same down there. But in Brighton they are fighting back. Since Wednesday refuse workers have taken unofficial strike action and occupied the canteen at their depot in response to council pay [...]

A staggering 28 units in the new ESG shopping precinct are yet to be filled. The site comprises a total of 40 units, with contracts signed for nine and advanced negotiations taking place over a further three. This comes despite Hereford Futures’ best efforts to lure city centre shops away from their existing premises. It [...]

The history of the world holiday on the 1st May – May Day, or International Workers Day, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for struggling for an 8-hour day. Originally a pagan holiday, the roots of the modern May Day bank holiday are in the fight for the eight-hour working day in Chicago in [...]

Eton-educated toff Jesse Norman is sad that we’re so hung up with class in Britain. “I wish we could find some way of creating a society which was freer in its own mind about that [class],” he told the Times. “The problem is when you have a preoccupation with class, you get people believing that [...]

Amid the chaos and danger at today’s Rotherwas fire were a group of people serving refreshments to the emergency services: the Plymouth Brethren. With their local base on the Beacon road at Rotherwas, the Plymouth Brethren (or Exclusive Brethren as they are also known) are a shadowy evangelical Christian movement, accused by some of being [...]

St Paul’s Cathedral, City of London; Wednesday 17 April 2013; 11.00hrs ……………………………………………………………………………………….. Assembled congregation of mourners to rise for the Opening Anthem: “I don’t want to work on Maggie’s Farm no more” (B.Dylan; 1965) played by the Easington Colliery Brass Band (Bandmaster: A. Scargill). Opening Address by Lords Heseltine and Howe: “We shall not look [...]

Things changed yesterday: ‘the cuts’ turned the corner from abstract ideas into tangible financial loses for many people. Implemented were the bedroom tax; cuts to legal aid; cuts to council tax benefit; more steps in the backdoor privatisation of the NHS. Further cuts this month include the scrapping of Disability Living Allowance, benefits rising by [...]

Fresh from his gig in Guildford Crown Court, N-Dubz star Dappy’s latest raps have been on the heads of two Hereford clubbers. The singer appeared at the city’s Play nightclub on Friday and was filmed as he lashed out at the audience, appearing to use his mic as a weapon. Two clubbers claim to have [...]

Did Herefordshire Council deliberately release news that it was axing its beloved flagship publication Herefordshire Matters on the same day as the Cyprus Savings Robbery, as it was “a good day to bury bad news”? ‘Pravda’, as the 24-page full colour magazine came to be known by its critics, was industrial-strength public relations bullshit, which [...]