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Clows Top
ardening Club: Events for August include, Tuesday 5: visit to The Walled Garden, Worcester, 6.15pm from Clows Top car park in cars; Saturday 16: annual show at Victory Hall, Clows Top, 2pm (admission 50p, children free); classes for flowers, vegetables
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Sheep make a welcome return after foot and mouth
TWO events marked the start of the season's round of agricultural shows in south Shropshire. Sheep returned on Sunday to be judged at the Bishop's Castle Agricultural Show for the first time since foot and mouth while poultry made their first appearance
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Attractive to new investment
Councillor Bews of Boraston writes (Letters, July 24th) that in South Shropshire "we have low wages, higher housing costs measured against income and a high level of second home ownership." He also says "we have to ensure that we have a balanced economy
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We are agree at one point...
I WRITE in response to councillor Griffiths' feeble attempt at humour and criticism. After 400 years it is inevitable that Shakespeare's language requires some work and intellectual rigour, but it is always worthwhile. What makes Shakespeare unique is
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Asphalt shroud is Ludlow's 'Eco Park'
SCANNING my airmail edition of The Advertiser, I was struck by the pertinence of my most recent literary research to the current Eco-business Park controversy raging amid your columns. Only last Friday, I came across the (admittedly 'impure') manuscript
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Ludlow Ladies secure a home win against Hay
Ludlow Burway Ladies tennis team enjoyed a home league victory when they entertained Hay-on-Wye at the Burway. The Hereford and Worcester League Match was a game played in good spirit with the home team eventual winners by three rubbers to one. The team
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Stuart's superb victory in time-trial league
Stuart Griffiths of Climb On Bikes RT rode to a superb victory and a personal best time in the latest round of the Ludlow Cycling Club's time-trial league, covering the 25 mile course from Ludlow to Dinmore and back in less than 57 minutes, beating team
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Janet is the first lady to chair oldest society
THE wife of a Herefordshire farmer is the first lady to lead the Brecknockshire Agricultural Society in its 248-year history. Mrs Janet Vaughan of Oakfields Farm, Kingsland, Leominster, daughter of a prominent Powys Hereford breeder and the wife of Mr
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Demand for Stockton Suffolks strengthens
A new record average was achieved at the Suffolk Sheep Society's premier show and sale, with a Worcestershire consignor being a major contributor. The two top prices of the day, Muiresk and Cairness ram lambs selling for 60,000gns and 35,000gns respectively
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Council pledges help for 'confused'
HELP for the less able-bodied and the 'confused' is taking top place on Ludlow Town Council's latest agenda. Good news for many is the likelihood soon of new arrangements for council meetings somewhere other than at the top of the difficult-to-climb stairs
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Valuable painting is stolen
A 19th century painting worth £1,000, depicting The Buttercross in Ludlow, has been stolen from one of the town's arts shops. The watercolour was taken from Beaux Arts, in the Bull Ring, sometime in the week up to July 21. Eighteen inches by 24 inches
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CCTV: A warning to vandals and louts
LUDLOW'S long-awaited CCTV cameras are on course to be in operation by mid-August, boosting law and order in the town. The £85,000 network, initially made up of six cameras, is expected to be up and running by the week beginning Monday, August 18, although
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Elderly in fear of 'cobble wobble'
LUDLOW may look better enhanced, but one section of the community is less than entranced. That, it appears, is the mood of disabled people, the elderly and anyone with mobility problems who uses wheel aids or has bad eyesight as Ludlow considers new town
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Ludlow
currently exhibiting a selection of members' work at this year's Music at Leasowes Bank event. The exhibition will be on display for all the performances until Saturday. The Chairman said that the club welcomed the opportunity to show the work of its
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Tenbury
Tenbury Carers Group: Nurse Carol Hutchinson welcomed her band of carers, and the group was pleased to see that Fiona managed to attend this month. Her husband Jack was in hospital but she was hoping that, when discharged, she would be able to care for
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Coreley
Coreley Fete: The fete raised £1,300 to be shared between the Church Hall and junior football teams. Draw winners were: 1 £50 L Prosser, C Clayton, M Sankey, Smith, S Bourne, R Edwards, L Davies, Buffy, J Hicks, N Handley, P Price, M Dog, H Reynolds,
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The Strettons
Youth Project: Mayfair Community Centre has put together a package of summer workshops for the youngsters, and these include sports workshops on Mondays at Church Stretton School from 10am-1pm, Art Workshops in the Community Centre on Tuesdays from 10am
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Council Tax: Where does the money g
I WAS appalled at reading in an article in the Ludlow Advertiser concerning a road accident that Ludlow has no police or ambulance cover after 8pm. Where then does our high Council Tax go if not towards these services? Ludlow may be quiet, but surely
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Mo searches for his old friends
I am trying to get in touch with two old friends, Tim Gill who used to live in Lower Raven Lane and Barbara Freeman (nee Williams) who lived in Clunbury, but I have lost their addresses. Tim was my first friend in Ludlow when I moved there in 1964 (?)
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The Nolans did not sing a note!
LAST Sunday I attended the festival's finale concert and how disappointing it was. For four months I had been eagerly awaiting to hear one of my favourite groups, The Nolans, in my home town. I bought six tickets for my family and friends. What I got,
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He is entitled to his view
IT would be a pity and discourteous to the Shakespeare company if there were not some comment on the letter from Councillor Griffiths to which you gave three quarters of a column. I doubt if his brain is as miniscule as he claims. Most of us have similar
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His lordship's pride as his workers collect prizes
VISCOUNT Boyne, one of Shropshire's major landowners and president of the Burwarton and District Farmers Club, looked on as the prize winners lined up. His servant William Butler collected £1 as second prize for shearing three sheep in under 90 minutes
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Firsts undone as Mas stars with bat and ball
Whitchurch 204-4 Ludlow 151 LUDLOW were undone by Mas Husnain who starred with both bat and ball to lead Whitchurch to a comfortable 53-run win at Burway in the Proactive Shropshire Premier Cricket League. After opening the batting and scoring a century
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Resurgence in British sheep forecast by Shropshire breeder
MRS Sue Farquhar of Canon Frome, Ledbury, who won both the male and female championships with her Shropshires at the Royal Welsh Show at Builth Wells, said doing well at shows helped maintain a flow of inquires for her sheep. "It has been a good year
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Police duo receive awards for bravery
TWO police officers from Ludlow have described how they were confronted with a potentially life-threatening situation in the town just over a month ago. They were among a select group hailed last week as the pride of the constabulary at a West Mercia
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Ludlow man faces lengthy jail term
A 20-year-old Ludlow man, due to be sentenced for a series of offences at Shrewsbury Crown Court, has been warned by a judge that he faces a lengthy jail term. Last week, Anthony Matthew Moffatt of The Wildings, Riddings Roads, Ludlow, admitted a charge
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Councillor felt let down by Nolan act
THE firework finale to the Ludlow Festival went off with a bang for some but the accompanying musical act was a damp squib for others. Ludlow resident and prominent councillor Richard Phillips has complained to the Trading Standards Office that he expected
