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

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. So said Conan Doyle’s great consulting detective - but even he would have found the admirable Deerstalkers of Welshpool a pretty improbable collection. Neil Thomas reports . . .

Neil Thomas enjoys dinner with a difference in the grand surroundings of a National Trust treasure

Ken Tudor enjoys an autumn visit to a perennial favourite on the Welsh border