Herefordshire is great for enterprise

Creative industries in Herefordshire saw a 238 per cent increase in turnover - and 314 per cent increase in profit - between 2004 and 2007. Sixteen per cent of the population is self employed - seen as a measure of an area's entrepreneurship - compared to 10 per cent nationally, and Herefordshire was named runner up in the 2008 Enterprising Britain awards, beating ten other areas across the UK to the finals and becoming eligible for the Enterprise Capital of Europe competition. Herefordshire's tourist industry was also worth more than £330m in 2007