Plan B Rumbles on

I'm sure a lot of people thought "Phew! We don't have to think about this again until May." But just because the County Council have said they're making no decision until after the elections in May doesn't mean that everything has stopped happening.
A couple of evenings ago, a chap from Ledbury came over to share their story of beating off the planning applications of first Tesco and then Sainsbury's from their town. He brought some of the publicity materials they had used with him, for the Plan B people to look at, and possibly adapt for Hay. The situation in Ledbury, though, was a rather more straightforward one than in Hay - it was Supermarket, Yes or No? whereas here it's Supermarket/School/Care Home/Llewelyn ward at Bronllys all tangled up together.
Yesterday, there was a Plan B stall at the market again, setting out the various options for the two sites - the present school site and the site by the Doctor's surgery.
There are also plans for merchandise - bookmarks, carrier bags, postcards, that sort of thing.
Meanwhile, Tim Organ is busy designing a new school, and someone has been over to Staunton on Wye, where they built a school for 70 children at a cost of 1.7 million pounds which they raised themselves - Staunton is a tiny place, but at one point they were raising £10,000 a week!
In the national news, the Daily Mail mentioned Hay in an article about supermarkets, and a piece about supermarkets in Holmfirth (the Last of the Summer Wine town) in the Observer also mentioned Hay in passing.