Perhaps we should have a panther, given that the Star regularly tells us there are a number of these on the loose in the area?

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It does not matter as long as it does not cost taxpayers money.

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another pathetic waste of money stick to the loggerheads, they are lovely pussies, why change the badge. a great pity town’s football club do not have a badge with 3 loggerhead pussies on it and the latin motto floreat salopia, let shrewsbury flourish. so come on council stick with what you have or waste 500k on another lenny the lion badge. can you be trusted to leave things alone. advance loggerheads you lovely creatures

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the council will spend more time and money debating this, than they will on putting a toxic incinerator in public areas

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atleast he is open with the debate unlike when shropshire county council held that mock competiion for the schools then broke some poor childs heart when the winner of the competition was overlooked and they kept their old logo

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“Shrewsbury folk are being asked for their views on a new logo”

Are we?
When and how exactly?!
And as several people have pointed out, how much is this costing us?!

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Loggerheads is thought to be a corruption of luber’s head which is old english for Loepard head.

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I think it’s nice that you can use a mouse to vote for big cats

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Y Mab Darogan, Telford isnt all that bad, I live in Telford, but there again, I can agree with you on some parts, I do like the roads leading out of Telford, Best part of this huge residential Landfill!

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Oh How boring.
Does anybody really care?

Look guys …Bring the whole thing to the chamber of commerce breakfast business meeting (every other Weds at Grazia) Present the thing in a 10minute presentation – and let the 40 odd local business owners, who DO know about logos and branding – decide

OK? see you there – now THERE’S a challenge!

And there’s two memebers of the chamber already writing on this thread!

(like I said before in another thread on the subject of logo designs for the council)

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absolutely right edward, the football badge is a disgrace to the club, town and county. whoever designed it needs to take up basket weaving or anything else

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Lets have the Lions the Leopards look cheap and nasty, would the Lion Hotel have to change its name.Why should the old crest have to go…leave things alone please.Shrewsbury is too keen on changing things and not for the best.

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The first association of lions with Shrewsbury I saw was at the entrance to one of the shopping centres in Shrewsbury town centre – They didn’t and still don’t look right to my eye. The Loggerheads in the arms as granted to the Borough are cleaner and crisper. In modern terms they would probably, be clearer in print. They would use less ink to harm the environment with its heavy metal content when recycled. The cost of using even three colours rather than two for the quantities involved would be expensive in the long term.
The lower and older of the two crests shown in the article marked as posted on 12th November incorporates a ‘W’ of ermine which I understood to be the arms of the County of Shropshire and not Shrewsbury.
Is change for the sake of it really what people wish? Why not leave the arms as they were before media mashers started to play around with them in the latter part of the last century? The ‘Shrow’ of middle English Shrowesbury only became ‘Shrew’ after a ancient copying error.
The town’s name has more recently been further mutilated by the use of the image of our smallest land mammal the shrew which has no true relevance being merely evidence of a lack of understanding.

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