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J is for ‘Just what Oswestry needs’
As easy as A, B, C. Youngsters are also having their say in an Alphabet for Oswestry
From the Old Racecourse looking south-east across the Shropshire Plain and west to Rhydycroesau. From Selattyn over to Frankton Brow, from Moelydd Hill south to the Tanat Valley, from Old Oswestry hill fort to Brogyntyn.
V is for the views that reward a drive, walk o ...
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Another one bites the dust
>>>>>> Newport Sainsbury's plan approved
"Councillors have approved plans for a Sainsbury's store on a green-field site in Shropshire. The plan for a Sainsbury's store off Station Road, Newport, are part of the Labour run Telford and Wrekin Council's wider regeneration scheme for the town......"
To revisit the arguments surrounding Os ...
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Imagine Oswestry; imagine the Bailey Head; imagine a dull Friday. Click link.
Imagine Oswestry; imagine Bailey Head; imagine a dull Friday....
Imagine Oswestry; imagine the Bailey Head; imagine a dull Friday.....
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Mannequin enters local election
Dummy North of the border causes election scandal. With our local elections a year away if you meet a mannequin who fancies running for office tell them they will need more than good looks to qualify.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woman-arrested-after-entering-mannequin-into-council-elections-7665476.html?origin=internalSearch ...
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Nationwide town centre Twitter debate kicks off
A passionate debate is in progress about the future of our town centres and high streets.
Oswestry is at the forefront of this. Our projected application for Portas town pilot status is only the latest in a long line of measures we are taking to try to energise the economy of our town centre.
Towns are ...
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It’s not all about bicycles
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT BICYCLES.
The Times newspaper is running a very prominent campaign entitled "Save Our Cyclists":
This campaign, if you ride a bike, is welcome, because mainstream papers usually only cover cycling as a relaxing way of holidaying between hotels in Burgundy. However, because the campaign focuses on the individual tragedies ...
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A French village remembers Wilfred Owen
Photo: Dogfael. Some rights reserved.
Near the village of Ors, in the far north of France, stands the house in the forest where Wilfred Owen spent his final night. It was in its cellar that he scribbled his last letter home, before leaving for the mission on which he was gunned down, just seven days before war ended.
When the poet’s biographer, Domin ...
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More Thought for Food
There was an energetic debate about Food organised by OS21 in the Memorial Hall back in July 2011. Some of you may have been there.
John Vidal from the Guardian was in the chair and you can see edited highlights from the occasion at: http://youtu.be/ai4UvuDgEHg
John is leading another discussion on the Future of Food in Ludlow on Friday 20th Jan ...
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As in Oswestry, so in Whitchurch
A punch-up between two supermarket companies, with associated armies of developers, seems set to continue in Whitchurch.
Whitchurch has one major supermarket, a Tesco, in the town centre. Last year, Sainsbury announced that it wanted to build a larger ...
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Tesco surprised as Planning Officers reject Tenbury Wells plans
From the Shropshire Star:
Supermarket giant Tesco today said it was “surprised and disappointed” that planning officers had recommended proposals for a store in Tenbury Wells are thrown out.
The resubmitted plans for the store have been recommended for refusal by Malvern Hills District Council.
They are set to be discussed at a planning committee ...
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Sheringham wins in appeal against superstore. News: 4th March 2010
Press release from the CPRE today 4th March. It can be done! Oswestry next, where Shropshire Council equally needs, in the light of PPS4, to "to look at the size of stores in terms of gross floor space and impact on the wider local economy". In response to today’s landmark decision to prevent a new Supermarket development in the centre of the largely ...
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“Fighting for the soul of the high street”
Article by By Michael Haynes, Business lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton’s Shropshire campus from Shropshire Star, Feb 21st. Read ful article HERE."One in eight shops across the UK is empty. In some towns it is as many as one in four. In the worst cases many of these shops will remain empty until they are knocked down by redevelopers.Becoming ...
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Dispatches – The Supermarket That’s Eating Britain
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News, links and other local campaigns……….
Conservative party to torpedo Tesco growth plans The Times. Feb 7th 2010 Tescopoly West Mids local campaigns, inc. Oswestry Tescopoly - essential reading. Government planning policy fails local shops Talking Retail. Feb 4th 2010 Keep Machynlleth SpecialThe Machynlleth campaign website Shropshire Council plans made to help Wem town cent ...
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Clone Town v Home Town. Does regeneration = identity theft? NEF publication.
Bed time reading. Clone Town Britain. The New Economics Foundation survey results on the bland state of the nation. Results and recommendations well worth reading. http://www.neweconomics.org/ ...
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Local supermarket planning news…………….
Telford supermarket decision "called in". Council have "a duty to protect the town centre from inappropriate development"
A decision on controversial plans by a supermarket giant (Tesco) to increase the amount of space it is allowed to use for non-grocery products at its Shrewsbury store has been put off for one month.
Newport, Shrops council oppose Lidl ...
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Candida Lycett Green
Listen to Candida Lycett Green on the Today Programme, Radio 4, Friday 1st January 2010, talking about the plight of Britain's town centre. She doesn't mention Oswestry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8436000/8436881.stm ...
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The story from Rhyl
Sense seen by Rhyl town councillors with regard to Tesco. ...
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Goodbye to Eden
Only 3 months after Tesco open in Ellesmere, it's the same story that's happened everywhere else. Town centre shops all report sharp decline in town footfall and takings.Ellesmere, being a centre of canal boating, has been used to boat crew coming into town to buy provisions - where have Tesco built? Bang on the wharf, so boaters can stock up at Tesco and ...
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Two pieces from today’s Times 14th Oct
How Holmfirth took in Tesco and won.
Smal towns 1, big business 0
Interesting after yesterday's post about Ellesmere. There's a a groundswell and change in the air that more and more people are angry and tired of the march of the bland and the dull, fed up of being told that lack of real choice and queuing are somehow "convenient", weary of being a numbe ...
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