SLOW FOOD tours featuring the efforts of a variety of food producers ranging from a “sixth-generation miller” to a brand new goats cheese product from the Bilberry Goat Herd will be incorporated into the Waterford Harvest Festival next month.

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A HALTING site close to Waterford’s city centre was sealed off for up to nine hours yesterday after a nail bomb was thrown on Sunday night as part of a continuing feud.

Gardai in Waterford are investigating the discovery of a suspected explosive device at a halting site in the city.

HUNDREDS of people were evacuated from Waterford courthouse and surrounding buildings yesterday after a “viable, explosive device” was found in a car outside the fire station, a mere 10 metres from the court building.

AN ARMY bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion on a device found at a hotel in Waterford city on Saturday, just two days after a suspect explosive device was dealt with at a house in the city.

GARDAÍ have worked more than 12,000 hours of overtime in the past two months to deal with a violent feud in Waterford city.

A man has been remanded in custody charged in connection with the shooting of a teenage girl in Waterford last week.

A man is due to appear in court later charged in connection with the shooting of a teenage girl in Waterford.

A 27-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with the shooting of a teenage girl in Waterford earlier this week.

A man has been arrested in connection with an incident in Waterford earlier this week in which a teenage girl was shot with a pellet gun.

THE mother of a teenage girl who had a lucky escape when she was shot in a hail of pellets in Waterford described her attackers as “cowardly people.”

Gardaí in Waterford are investigating an alleged shooting at the Bilberry halting site last night.

A CRACKDOWN on unlicensed dogs has been launched in Waterford with a dog warden set to call door to door as part of a blitz.

A TOWER described as being twice as tall as Dublin’s Liberty Hall will form the focal point of an urban development in Waterford, which is set to create 400 jobs during construction and a similar number on completion in 2014.

Plans were unveiled today for a skyscraper at the heart of a €380m redevelopment of an old iron foundry in Waterford city.

ACCORDING to the local media, the new development plan adopted by Waterford city council allows for an additional open space zone, primarily on council lands, to facilitate a permanent home for the rare goat herd — the last of the breed left in the world — which has lived at Bilberry Rock for many years.

WORKERS at Waterford Stanley are to take an extra week’s leave on top of the traditional week off at the beginning of June to allow production to be transferred to a new plant three miles away.

WORKERS at Waterford Stanley have voted by a 4/1 majority to accept a relocation package which has saved 120 manufacturing jobs at the plant.

A new proposal has been put forward in an effort to end the threat of lay-offs at the Waterford Stanley plant.

MORE than 120 manufacturing workers at one of Waterford’s longest-established manufacturing plants have been told they will be issued with protective notice on Monday unless they relocate to a new plant.

Aga Foodservice Group plc has announced the acquisition of Waterford Stanley for €13.8m.

FOUR years after a plan to provide Traveller accommodation in Waterford city failed to have any impact, a city councillor has called for “courage and leadership” to ensure the latest plans come to fruition.

TAXI drivers in Waterford are refusing to bring Travellers to their halting sites following a series of assaults.