Café culture comes to the Compasses – but its controversial
andybodders The plan is for a pavement café area tucked into the dogleg between Corve Street and the Bull Ring. As you approach the front door of the Compasses, the café…
Restaurant Tasty moves into De Grey’s Ludlow – is this good or bad?
An application for planning permission reveals the future for De Grey’s tea rooms. Many would have hoped that the building would have been resurrected as a traditional café and tea…
Hurrah! Ludlow Buttercross museum grant saved
Today (21 March), Shropshire Council announced that it will not after all be insisting that Ludlow spends its £120,000 grant for the new museum at the Buttercross by 31 March…
Shropshire Council is turning Ludlow’s museum relocation into a lose-lose project
Shropshire Council is turning its back on an agreement to help fund the move of our town museum to the historic Buttercross and create a heritage interpretation centre. In doing…
My response to Shropshire Council leader Keith Barrow on state of rights of way
A couple of days ago, I published a blog supporting criticism by The Ramblers of swingeing cuts to Shropshire Council’s rights of way budgets. In a discussion on Twitter, Council…