
There’s no doubt that south shropshire is an area of great beauty, bringing tourists from far and wide. It is also bringing opportunities for local producers, thanks to a major regional initiative. Neil Thomas reports

Neil Thomas gets round to dining at The Royal Oak in Welshpool — and rather wishes he’d visited earlier.

Neil Thomas enjoys some thoroughly modern cooking in the thoroughly unmodern surroundings of Drapers’ Hall in Shrewsbury

Neil Thomas takes an early measure of a new venue in the county town