Best town business winners in annual Bloom competition

LOVE Loughborough BID and the Loughborough Chamber of Trade and Commerce have been working together to help promote business involvement in the town Bloom awards for this year’s competition.

The chamber has sponsored the competition for the best dressed pub or hotel premises in town and Love Loughborough has sponsored the competition for the best dressed town centre retail or business premise.

A spokesperson for the groups said: “This year we have seen a great range and amount of businesses entering the competition from charity shops, coffee shops, guest houses to retail businesses.

“The public additionally have been voting in their droves until the competition ended on August 31. After this point the votes were counted and verified, and the businesses were notified.

“We can now announce the winner for best shop front was Olivia’s Bakery on Market street, which was then closely followed by Beauty Temple and Fleurs end Fleur both in the runner up position.

“For the best pub front, the winner was the Windmill followed by the Moon and Bell.”

The winners will automatically now be entered into next year’s East Midlands In Bloom competition representing Loughborough.

Lez Cope Newman, Love Loughborough chairman, said: “The town is looking truly vibrant and colourful with year and it has been great to see so many businesses orchestrating beautiful floral shop front displays, which add a lovely coherence to the town flower displays and arrangements.”