Ludlow | Archive | 2001 | April
BIG fat beats were the flavour of the night on Friday (March 30) at Oscars nightclub at Ludlow Assembly Rooms. more...
EXCITEMENT is now mounting at the prospect of Tenbury Amateur Operatic Society's forthcoming production. more...
AN ACTRESS from Bishop's Castle is busy learning her lines ahead of her debut as Gertrude in a new production of Hamlet in Birmingham. more...
LUDLOW Town Football Club will play its home games more than 50 miles away from Ludlow in Walsall next season in a ground-sharing agreement with a higher graded club. more...
TRADERS and townsfolk in Ludlow can bid good riddance to this scene now the £1 million Town Centre Enhancement has been completed. more...
TENBURY Chamber of Trade fears increased parking charges in the heart of the town will be a further blow to the local economy. more...
TENBURY'S dog warden Paul Hine has revealed this week he needs help in solving another cruelty case in which a terrier dog was tied up in a plastic bag and then dumped in a field. more...
TENBURY'S Victorian Pump Rooms is expected to be internally refurbished and ready for a formal opening in September. more...
LUDLOW Conservatives have come out in support of local MP Christopher Gill who was at the centre of a national controversy this week over immigration and race. more...
THE popularity of Ludlow's soccer sensation, Jamie Tolley, is expected to help efforts to create an independent supporters club of Shrewsbury Town FC in south Shropshire. more...
SOUTH Shropshire District Council has promised, proceeds from the sale of six Grade 1 listed flats, in Castle House, within the grounds of Ludlow Castle, will be used to provide at least 40 affordable homes across the district. more...
ONGOING debate over plans to build an ultra-modern, glass building in Castle Square, Ludlow, reached as far as Aberdeenshire in the north of Scotland this week as a long-time visitor to Ludlow called for `second thoughts' on the town's controversial plan for a new restaurant in Castle Street. more...
ONE of the area's principal spring festivals, Clun's Green Man Day has become the latest casualty of the growing foot and mouth crisis in Shropshire. more...
WITH traders facing a difficult future as visitors stay away from the countryside during the foot and mouth crisis, the annual meeting of Ludlow Chamber of Commerce has taken on greater significance this year. more...
A PROPOSAL by residents of Craven Arms would see local people work with council officers and waste authorities to identify an appropriate site for a waste transfer station in south Shropshire. more...
AS the foot-and-mouth outbreak continues to spiral upwards, the heavy emotional toll on farmers is also growing. For them it is not a simple matter to summon up hope when despair looms. more...
TEAMS of experienced advisors are to man a telephone hotline 15 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide help to businesses hit by the effects of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. more...
THE foot-and-mouth crisis is hitting many sectors than farming and tourism, according to a survey by the Country Land and Business Association. more...
ACCORDING to ADAS, foot-and-mouth disease is just beginning to impact on dairy performance - the average herd size is up ten per cent (13 cows) on the same month a year ago and up four cows on January 2001. more...
THE Royal British Legion may be able to help former Service people and their dependants who have had their livelihoods adversely affected by the foot-and-mouth crisis. more...
POTATO growers are again being warned that the high incidence of late blight last year could have left a legacy of increased tuber blight in seed stocks. more...
LOCAL authorities have been urged by landowners to make immediate use of vital rate relief measures aimed at easing the financial hardship of many rural businesses hit by the foot-and-mouth outbreak. more...
ASK any Ludlow group or organisation to name a photographer and the one that inevitably springs to mind will be Peter Bartlett. more...
CHARITY KIDS: Children at Bishop's Castle Primary School raised £254.17 for Comic Relief. Everyone paid 50p to wear red clothes to school and during the afternoon the hall was turned into a fun palace with lots of games and competitions. One of the teachers Dick Langford dressed up in a wetsuit and had wet sponges thrown at him. There was ice cream, a treasure map, a cake stall and other welcome diversions from the normal Friday afternoon timetable. Earlier in the month a cake stall raised £50.35 for the Indian Earthquake Appeal. more...
LUCKY DRAW: As the pupils at Church Stretton School are busy collecting Free Books for Schools tokens from Walkers Crisp packets, Margaret, cook in charge at the school, ordered several extra boxes of crisps which, gave the school the opportunity to enter a free draw. Everyone was surprised and delighted to find that they had won a prize, when Walkers recently presented a complete set of computer equipment to the school. more...
RBL Women's Section: The Ludlow Women's Section, Royal British Legion ladies meeting on March 2 was quite well attended to hear a talk by Mrs I Smith on her work as an Outreach Nurse. more...
TWELVE-year-old Christopher Bayliss has become the first member of Ludlow Swimming Club to achieve a national qualifying time. more...
LUDLOW are hoping the return of batsman Mark Porteous and new overseas professional Ben Donaldson will guide the club to this year's Worthington Shrop-shire Premier League title. more...
LUDLOW trainer Henry Daly warmed up in style for this Saturday's Grand National with a double at the weekend. more...
Tenbury Ladies 5 Harborne Ladies 0. more...
Tenbury 0 Oswestry 8. more...
Ludlow Ladies' Darts League Charity 3s Jane McGarritty Memorial Shield was held at the Labour Club. more...
Birmingham Civil Service 0pts Tenbury 14pts. more...
Handsworth 25pts Ludlow 29pts. more...
Walsall Wood 1 Ludlow Town 2. more...
Wellington 1 Ludlow Town 2. more...
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