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  • Wyre Forest

    IF you go down to the woods today . . . you'll probably find lots of walkers, especially if you're in the Wyre Forest. Every Thursday this month, Forest Friends, a club for pre-school age children and their parents, meets for a different fun activity,

  • The Strettons

    OPEN MEETING: The Church Stretton Area Partnership is due to host a meeting in Hope Bowdler Village Hall, next Tuesday, when members of the public are invited to attend. n DANCE CLUB: The Tuesday Dance Club meets at the Silvester Horne Institute, from

  • Tenbury

    Historical Society: The guest speaker at the September meeting was Joyce Bunce, who spoke about some of the local characters who lived in and around the district of Corvedale, where she lived and taught. To complement the ever-popular holly and mistletoe

  • Bishop's Castle

    n AUTHOR: Local writer Gerry Kennedy has been invited by the Friends of Bishop's Castle Library to talk about his newly published book The Voynich Manuscript, on Monday, November 1, at 7.30pm. During the evening there will be a chance to ask questions

  • Awaiting latest in fallen wall saga

    RECENT letters to your paper have drawn attention to the delay in undertaking the repairs to the collapsed wall adjacent to St John's Gardens. As the town wall is an ancient monument subject to conservation orders, it is a difficult task to draw together

  • Whatever's going to happen next?

    RE the proposal to close the Broad Gate to traffic (Advertiser, October 7). In 1998 Councillor Alison Cundall and two Broad Street residents organised surveys and distributed them to people living in the area surrounding the Broad Gate. They had decided

  • The best job in the world

    LUDLOW CE School is the largest in south Shropshire and a specialist technology college. ARUN MARSH talks to the head, Philip Poulton, about what makes running the school "the best job in the world". WHEN asked what the main strengths of Ludlow School

  • Now it's body and soul

    The fully-fledged member of Team Clergy in Tenbury Wells, hasn't yet touched reality since being ordained as a non stipendiary priest by the Bishop of Hereford last month. "It was awesome, joyful and terrifying all rolled into one and I haven't yet come

  • Ladies kick off weekend with a win

    Cleobury 3 Malmesbury Mavericks 0 Cleobury Ladies kicked off their double-header Women's National League Division 2 volleyball weekend against Malmesbury Mavericks by starting the first set with an amazing short attack from Clare Jones. Cleobury pulled

  • Battle royal as sides meet at last in league

    ACTION from the Powergen Midlands Four West (North) local derby clash between Ludlow and Bishop's Castle at the Linney on Saturday. This was the first time that the two sides had ever met in the league, with Castle achieving parity with their neighbours

  • Cocum wraps up the points

    Woofferton 3 Fownhope 0 NEIL Cocum netted a goal in each half as Woofferton overcame a determined Fownhope challenge in the Premier Division of the Hereford Times Herefordshire League. Dave Cooper performed confidently in the first half as Fownhope used

  • Ludlow win opening clash of county rivals

    Ludlow 9pts Bishop's Castle 6pts THE FIRST league meeting between the local rivals was a tight affair with Mark Williams just pipping his counterpart Matthew Willcock by three penalties to two to give Lud-low the points and maintain their 100 percent

  • Edward wins trophy for second year running

    McCartneys recently held the first of their October store sales at Ludlow Market. An excellent entry of 3,900 store sheep were forward, breeding ewes and feeding lambs. There was a prize class for the best pen of lambs for further fattening, which was

  • Steers win top award at Kington Show and Sale

    The champion pen of steers award at Kington Market's October Prize Show and Sale went to S N & R D Powell Werndansey Farm who also received the Victor Jones Memorial Trophy. The five steers in the award, which made £662, were bought by E K Rowlands

  • Ludlow wonder how they lost the game

    Ludlow 1 Pershore 4 FACING their toughest opponents to date in the Coaching Solutions Midlands League 2, Ludlow were justified in feeling hard done by after ending the losers in a game which proved far tighter than the scoreline suggested. The first half

  • NFU to move to a new home

    A new headquarters for NFU members in Worcester and Tenbury Wells which will also house rural insurer NFU Mutual's expanding local sales team will be jointly opened on Friday by the national leaders of the two organisations. Sir Don Curry, chairman of

  • TB in cattle herds shows another alarming rise

    A DECADE ago there was just a handful of cattle herds - ten or 12 - under restrictions for tuberculosis in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Now almost 500 were restricted during the eight months from January to August, underling the alarming rise in

  • Animal magic in solo exhibition

    ARTIST Shelagh Popham's affinity with animals comes through in two ways. She works part-time in a vet's surgery and her oils and engravings show hares, owls, gannets and foxes in surprising situations. Sometimes these are amusing as well as strangely

  • Sup in safety with Suchet

    SIT down at a gathering with Hercule Poirot and there is a pretty good chance that a fair number of your companions will die pretty soon in mysterious circumstances. Belgium's most famous detective is one of those people like Miss Marple, who, if you

  • Sup in safety with Suchet

    by Michael Baws SIT down at a gathering with Hercule Poirot and there is a pretty good chance that a fair number of your companions will die pretty soon in mysterious circumstances. Belgium's most famous detective is one of those people like Miss Marple

  • Lost railways re-found

    THE romance of the Age of Steam still lingers among those old enough to remember the railways of south Shropshire pre-Dr Beeching's cuts. The area was once rich in rural railways, Craven Arms was merely a hamlet before the trains came. Branch lines connected

  • A little bit of mean ukulele

    MENTION the ukulele and many people of a certain age will think of George Formby and his toothy smile. Four decades after his death, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain presents a different image, strutting across their web site in their black tuxedos

  • Westhope

    VILLAGE HALL LOTTERY: Winners in the October draw: 1st prize of £45.60: Frank Gardener, Westhope; Four prizewinners of £7.60: Dick Simpson, Ludlow; A Cooper, Walls Butchers; Barbara Jones, Westhope and Fred Duce, Craven Arms. n CLOVER CLUB: It was the

  • Clows Top

    Gardening Club: The annual show proved to be a great success both in numbers and quality of entries. Especially encouraging was the number of entries from children and new exhibitors. The cup winners were: Tom Bore, Harry Jenkins, Joyce Hide, Marion Cox

  • Where to find out a little more

    EARLIER THIS year, many people went to see The Passion film by Mel Gibson. It has now been released on video and DVD. If, after having watched this amazing film, you find yourself asking questions or just wish to revisit 'The Whole God Thing' then I have

  • Our fears over hunting move

    Most people will be overjoyed at the long-awaited passage of the Bill to ban hunting with dogs on September 15th and appalled by the arrogant, selfish and violent behaviour of the hunting minority on that day and since. Their refusal to abide by democracy

  • All the best, staff

    WHEN Kwik Save closes, Ludlow will lose a shop where the service has been second to none. The shoppers of Ludlow have appreciated the hard working, courteous, efficient staff, and, above all, the friendly service. These fine workers have been very shabbily

  • Don't let apathy lead to new name

    I READ on your front page today (Tenbury Advertiser, October 7) that the town centre manager Anthony Collis suggests that the name Tenbury Wells is changed to Tenbury on Teme. What a shame that Mr Collis didn't wait a few days until the Eurostat Yearbook

  • Confident Cleobury chalk up their second victory

    Cleobury hosted Wombourne in a West Midlands League Division One game on Sunday brimming with confidence after their opening league win against Telford. The opening set started well with Cleobury keeping ahead throughout. Pin point passing from back court

  • Sarah and Nick win at the Lion Inn

    Cleobury Mortimer Bridge Club played a six-table Mitchell movement at the Lion Inn when North-South winners Sarah Green and Nick Holcomb scored 64.06% and Steve Clifton and Nigel Wilkinson second with 60.42%. East-West winners were John and Barbara Northfield

  • Oli's hat-trick for Tenbury

    Tenbury Ladies 5 Bromsgrove Seconds 0 OLI Linton netted a hat-trick as Tenbury Ladies put last week's defeat behind them and emphatically returned to winning ways against Bromsgrove at Bridge Street on Saturday. Michelle Petrie netted the other two goals

  • Mechanical problems plague Ludlow pair

    Just under 80 competitors took part in the event which consisted of six special stages around the complex. The event was won by Stephen Price in a Metro 6R4 after the early leader, Peter Lloyd, was forced to retire his Subaru WRC on the very last stage

  • Approach to defender angers Ludlow Town management

    BERNARD McNally has infuriated the Ludlow Town management over an approach to talk to skipper and central defender David Andrewartha with a view to a possible transfer. After shaking hands with assistant manager Bernard Mackie a while ago, agreeing not

  • Work to save town's wall due to begin

    A £25,000-plus project to restore part of Ludlow's medieval town wall got under way this week. "The work is to ensure this precious part of Ludlow's legacy is maintained and secured for the long term in the most appropriate and durable manner that can

  • Stores ring the changes

    A £1million refurbishment of Ludlow's Somerfield store was under way this week, as it was revealed that the former Kwik Save building had been sold to the clothing firm Mackays. Somerfield, parent company of Kwik Save, has already confirmed that the Ludlow

  • A clash of beliefs over celebrations Upset for Halloween

    By Arun Marsh A Pagan high priestess and a pastor have clashed over Halloween celebrations. AbbieHemmings, who runs Naiad's Well, in Bishop's Castle, said she was disappointed by the comments from Pastor Tim Coles, of the Elim Christian Fellowship in

  • The way ahead set out for LAR

    by Michael Baws PLANS are being hatched to shift the main public entrance to Ludlow Assembly Rooms from Mill Street and around the corner into Castle Square. Under the scheme, the caf will move from the first floor and be reached from the new entrance

  • £5m fast track to high speed web

    By Jean Kingdon A £5 MILLION project to bring high speed internet broadband access to every household and business in Shropshire by 2007 was announced this week. The cash comes from Advantage West Midlands (AWM) and the funds will be divided among Shropshire

  • Fireworks clampdown

    by Jean Kingdon POLICE have promised a "get tough" policy on the misuse of fireworks following the implementation of strict new laws to stop firework nuisance this week. The dark autumn nights used to herald noisy and intimidatory fireworks on the streets

  • Eveylyn makes a return visit

    SINGER Evelyn Tubb pays a return visit to Leominster on November 6 to take part in a rich and varied programme in the Priory Church. The Leominster Choral Society's concert, under David Hatcher, ranges from the 16th century to a work by John Tavener partly

  • Debut CD

    CLEOBURY Mortimer singer/songwriter Jake Flowers made his CD debut this week. The Rooster Got Laid was launched this week and was recorded on his own label Shackled Lamb Records at his studio. Due to get air-time on regional radio stations, the mini-disc