I spent Thursday afternoon with Robin Richter, MD of Rugby First who manage Rugby’s town centre. Robin brought me up to date with new developments. These are exciting times for Rugby with development about to start on the new ASDA development and additional units in the town centre, which we have waited for over more years than most people care to mention. Robin is also working hard to attract new quality shops to Rugby to keep our more affluent shoppers in the town and we can see the effect of this in a resurgent Regent/Albert Street area, styled the “independent sector”. We also spoke about the need for Rugby to make more of is principal attribute as the home of Rugby football. As a keen former Rugby player myself and knowing people who have come to Rugby because of the connection with the game, it is clear that we need to offer more. It also turns out that Robin’s and my career paths overlapped over 25 years ago in the catering trade and we were able to reminisce about characters we both used to know.
