THE deadline for entry to the 2009 Ludlow 15/30 challenge walk is approaching. Places are limited for the walk on Saturday, July 11, and entries cannot be accepted on the day. Entrants can choose between the 15-mile route and the 30-mile route.
TO celebrate the festival’s golden jubilee, there will be a display illustrating the history of the Ludlow Festival at Ludlow Assembly Rooms, with pictures of past events and personalities arranged year by year. The exhibition will include every
A NEW committee has been set up to allow people to influence the work of Shropshire Council. The first public meeting of Ludlow and Clee Local Joint Committee is on Wednesday, July 1, at 7pm in the Harley Centre, Ludlow College. The committee
AN independent fostering agency based in Tenbury is taking to the road. ABC Fostering Services is restoring a VW camper van to help it take the fostering message around the region over the coming months. The agency has carers in Herefordshire
NEARLY 70 cyclists of all ages and abilities completed the five-mile third Tour de Ludlow organised by Ludlow Cycling Support Group (LCSG) on Thursday evening. The Mayor of Ludlow, Councillor Martin Taylor-Smith, launched the fun ride and was
MONDAY, JUNE 22 Finished Cattle – 447 Less cattle on offer this week and more could have been sold to advantage. Steers sold up to 188.5p per kilo, heifers up to 190.0p per kilo and bulls up to 184.5p per kilo. More needed. Prices were as follows
A LEINTWARDINE landlady who ran one of Britain’s last surviving parlour pubs has died, aged 94. Flossie Lane manned the tiny Sun Inn single-handedly for almost 25 years having lived in the village all her life. She has this week been
THE popular international and intergenerational youth choir, Village Harmony, makes a welcome visit to Bishop’s Castle on Thursday, July 2, to perform in St John the Baptist Church at 7.30pm. The 18-strong ensemble includes singers gathered from
ON Sunday, Humanists all over the world celebrated World Humanist Day. Humanists make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values and seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. We believe that moral
A HOST of top lots will be auctioned at a fund-raising event at Culmington Village Hall. A Thai evening on July 3 will raise funds for education and community development work being undertaken by members of the Living Waters Church in northern
BISHOP’S Castle has taken delivery of an upgraded fire engine. The arrival of the XL Cab brings towards an end a £1 million campaign by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service to upgrade appliances operating from the county’s 23 fire stations. It
A STONEMASON from Church Stretton has agreed to repair vandalised graves in a Ludlow churchyard free of charge. Adam Collier, aged 31, made the offer after reading about the smashing of four memorials, including a war grave. “It is appalling
TENBURY has marked up a political double first. At a meeting of Malvern Hill’s District Council, two men from the town were elected to the top posts on the authority. Councillor Phil Grove, who represents the town, was elected as the new leader
