FINAL preparations are being made in Ludlow for a street party and festivities to celebrate the Olympic torch coming through the town next week.
Craven Arms’ abattoir is set to be redeveloped and moved to the other side of the town as part of plans which would see more than 300 homes built, it has been revealed.
Organisers are totting up after Ludlow Spring Festival, hoping this year’s event will have made a profit.
Youngsters at a school in Craven Arms are rallying round after yobs trashed their outdoor play area, tipping over sand pits, smashing plant pots and daubing graffiti on walls.
More than 8,000 people are expected to pour into Ludlow this weekend for the town’s Spring Festival, pumping millions of pounds into the local economy.
The devastated family of a 14-year-old who died in a campsite tragedy in Shropshire, thought to have been caused by a disposable barbecue, have spoken of their ‘unimaginable sadness’ at her death.
Calls have been made to build a footbridge over the A49 in Ludlow amid concerns that people living in the centre of town won’t have easy access to the proposed £27 million hospital.
Ludlow’s planned £27 million new hospital has been described as a ‘once in a generation opportunity’ to improve care for people living in south Shropshire.
Ludlow’s outdoor market has brought in more than £200,000 in the past year and increased in size by a third due to a huge boom in demand from traders, it was revealed this week.
Police will carry out extra patrols along part of Shropshire’s notorious A49 following a number of recent car smashes.