Country pub which has gone through changes ready to welcome customers in
As pubs struggle in the current cost of living crisis, the Star continues its series, Love Your Local, which celebrates our local inns.
It's a pub which has struggled to establish itself after three sets of landlords in less than a year but now has a new lease of life.
The Boycott Arms, near Claverley, has been an established food-led pub for years, but has fallen on hard times since the departure of one landlord in August 2022.
The next group to take over lasted only three months as a sports bar before the doors were closed again, but after Admiral Taverns took over, it looked at bringing in the right people to help revamp the pub.
That's where Donna Robinson and her team came in, with Donna, who had worked as a HGV driver up in Lincolnshire, making the decision to move to east Shropshire and take over the pub.
She recalls: "It was just a general feeling for me about this pub and my situation had changed, so I decided to just move lock, stock and barrel down here as I've been in the pub game before.
"When we took over, it wasn't very good as it had been taken away from the traditional pub and been operating more as a sports bar, which only lasted three months.
