Ludlow | Archive | 2001 | June
A PLAYING field project to include a `rocket' apparatus for children is set for take-off this summer thanks to a community's fund-raising efforts. more...
HOLLYOAKS and Peak Practice scriptwriter Paul Coates has offered to help South Shropshire Youth Forum produce a film on drug and alcohol awareness. more...
TENBURY'S MP-elect needs to see a doctor - an appointment with the man who prescribed Election 2001 with its most memorable result. more...
A TENBURY district councillor has urged the community to work together to stamp out the `problem of rats' within the town. more...
RESIDENTS of a tiny village, near Tenbury Wells, can see major plans to restore their local church at an open meeting next month. more...
A TENBURY Wells couple have launched a campaign to `safeguard the future' of a prominent local park. more...
THE mystery of a vanishing leading lady has brought backstage drama to Ludlow Festival's current staging of Macbeth. more...
A GEOLOGICAL walk through a hundred million years of Ludlow's Silurian history is set to become a favourite forage ground for fossil hunters. more...
A MAJOR south Shropshire employer may be closed for months because of an unlucky quirk in newly drawn foot-and- mouth disease boundaries. more...
LUDLOW soccer fans are celebrating news they can start work on building a new football ground and stadium. more...
WHEN thieves ripped an old cigarette machine from the wall of an empty shop last week, they also stole a piece of Ludlow's history. more...
A RURAL community is `raising the roof' in celebration of a £79,500 Lottery award that will give a popular village hall a new lease of life. more...
A VILLAGER who has clocked up 30 years keeping time in Knowbury has received a parish council accolade. more...
BEFORE the foot-and-mouth outbreaks in Yorkshire, there were hopes of certain livestock markets being restarted during the autumn. But now predictions by members of the livestock industry have been switched to next year, while the new Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (formerly MAFF) is saying that the reopening of markets is even not being considered for the present. more...
PICKING ripe and juicy strawberries at table-top height has already begun at Court Farm, Tillington. more...
THE 20-day standstill plan for animals will come under the scrutiny of the Farm Animal Welfare Council this week. more...
ONE of the biggest-ever private sector surveys of farmer opinion shows that the vast majority of farmers expect to stay in farming in the foreseeable future, despite the economic meltdown of the past few years. more...
A LICENSING scheme for sheep dippers - similar to the one that exists for sheep shearers - will be introduced by the Government next Wednesday. more...
TWO Herefordshire farmers are among a record number of successful candidates who have won scholarships awarded by the Nuffield Trust. more...
CANCER CARE: Several members of the Stretton Cancer Care Group who heard Malcolm Shaw speak on the subject of chemotherapy at the May meeting, have asked for him to be invited back to speak on another subject. He will return later in the year. Dates for the diary include The National Conference of Cancer Self Help Groups to be held in Manchester from June 21 - 24, and the summer coffee morning at the Sylvester Horne Institute on Saturday, June 23 when there will be stalls selling cakes, books, honey, plants and white elephant. The group would be grateful for any donations to the stalls or for raffle prizes. A 1940s dinner dance is also being planned for the end of September. more...
CONCERT GOES WITH A BANG: Relatives and friends thoroughly enjoyed the annual concert given by the music pupils of Elisabeth Knight. The evening was entitled `A Few of our Favourite Fings" because this year pupils chose their own favourites. The repertoire included traditional tunes, classical and modern pieces, with the Beatles, Elton John and Geri Halliwell finding their way onto the programme. In the interval there was a party atmosphere as everyone shared the refreshments they had brought. The second half began with a bang as Henry Beddoes gave his version of `Haydn's Surprise' with a concealed balloon. There was more drama when a power-cut stopped a keyboard player mid-piece! The concert continued by candle-light until power was restored. Those taking part were: Claire Lennox, Edward Middleton, Lynsey Wyke, Eleanor Evans, Jenny Rodgers, Becky Corfield, Leanne Franks, Elizabeth Reynolds, Maya Kennet, Heidi Luckhurst, Claire Hockly, Henry Beddoes, Amy Evans, Catherine Reynolds, Stuart Richards, Lucy Rogers, Sarah Richards, Jacqui Owen and Ben Beddoes. Donations amounting to £35 were sent to Hope House Children's Hospice. more...
SIMON Wheatley held a fun-day for racquet-wielding youngsters at Ludlow School's tennis courts. more...
SUNDAY saw the Parsonage Doubles played at Ludlow Castle Bowling Club. Twenty-four bowlers took part, with bowlers changing partners after every game. more...
Ludlow Homing Society raced 150 miles from Plymouth to Ludlow on Saturday. The birds were liberated at 7.30am in a west wind. more...
LUDLOW Town, last season's champions of the Banks's Premier League, will have no easy task in the Midlands Alliance League. more...
ONE hundred primary school pupils from ten different schools travelled to Burway in Ludlow last Tuesday to take part in the 2001 annual Kwik Cricket Tournament organised by Rose Smith from Ludlow Cricket Club in association with South Shropshire Sports Development. more...
Ludlow 185-7 Bridgnorth 143 all out. more...
Tenbury 116 all out Dominies 119-2. more...
KNIGHTON-ON-TEME slumped to a ten wickets hiding when they met Hewell in Division Six of the Worcester County League. Batting first, Knighton were all out for 119 in 32 overs. Bob Gittins made 51, hitting seven fours and three sixes. John Humphries made 21 and 63 was added for the third wicket. more...
TENBURY Cricket Club is holding two special events this weekend to celebrate its 150th anniversary. more...
Ludlow 2nds 256-4 Bridgnorth 216-5. more...
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