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…
The Co-op is on its knees. It pays no dividend because it has lost its ethics
What a sad state the Co-op is in. In recent years it has abandoned its core values. It went hell for broke for capitalist style banking and almost went broke.…
Harry Tuffins to take co-operative cards & the post office opens late
In May 2012, local supermarket group Harry Tuffins sold its stores to the Midcounties Co-operative Society. The Competition Commission was none too happy with the deal and some stores were…
HMV is dead – long live the High Street
It is a curious thing, but the demise of HMV and chain stores of its genre may just be the saving of many high streets. Over four decades, the character…