The full programme for the 2007 Festival is currently at the planning stage.

Full details will appear here of events and activities as and when details are known.

See also 'Throughout the weekend'

In the town | In the castle | Food & Drink Fair times and prices

In the town

LUDLOW SAUSAGE TRAIL
Britain's most amazing food event

Start from 9.30 am to 2 pm Saturday only: Tickets (£3.00 each price to be confirmed) available on the day (only) from the Festival Box Office near the entrance to the castle.

No sausages served after 3 pm.

Sponsored by DALZIEL Ltd - serving the food industry, and The Ludlow Sausage Company

Price includes sausage in a bread roll from the Festival Sausage Stall by the castle on completion of the trail. Ticket/voting forms with full instructions available from 9.30 am on the day from the Festival Sausage Stall near the castle entrance. Some are also available from the butchers earlier in the week. Numbers are limited to 1,850. Sorry, but Sausage Trail tickets cannot be bought online or by phone or post.

Explore Ludlow and visit its celebrated independent butchers, who are each making their own recipes for the Festival Sausage of the Year. At each butcher's shop, taste the sausage and award it points out of ten.

The sausage with the most points wins the 'People's Choice' award, with an 'Experts' Choice' award to be judged by a special panel at 4 pm at the Festival Sausage Stall. Results will be announced at around 4.30 pm on Saturday, the awards will be presented in the castle at 3.00 pm on Sunday.

THE FESTIVAL LOAF
Details of the 2007 Festival Loaf to follow.

REAL ALE TRAIL
Details of the 2007 Real Ale Trail to follow.

In the castle

FOOD & DRINK FAIR in Ludlow Castle
and other castle events
10 am - 5 pm

See Throughout the weekend for details and admission prices.

List of exhibitors

INCLUDING

Talks and Demonstrations - full details

Slow Food Marquee - full details

A TASTE OF NORMANDY
Saturday all day in the Food & Drink Fair (no extra charge), also Sunday.
Sponsored by HUMBERTS Estate Agents, Ludlow

Ludlow is twinned with La Ferté-Macé in Normandy. Students and teachers will be bringing top-quality local food products, such as cheeses (including Camembert and a new cheese 'Le Petit Pointel', organic bread, wine, vinegar, ham, a cheese bread, calvados, cider, perry, and other Normandy products. Always a star attraction of the Festival.

A TASTE OF ITALY
(also on Friday and Sunday) - in the Food & Drink Fair (no extra charge).

Ludlow is also twinned with San Pietro in Cariano, which is ideally situated in northern Italy between Verona and Lake Garda. Meet wine producers and others from S. Pietro, find out more about the area and sample some of the best Valpolicella Classico wines. New this year: olive oil, aubergines, artichokes, peppers.

WAITERS RACE
Saturday, 3 pm in the Castle.

A bottle of champagne - and possibly more - awaits the winner of this race with a difference. It's not just an obstacle race: when the run is over, your professionalism is tested to the utmost when you try to satisfy some very odd customers in the shape of the Old Dic Theatre Company, who have yet again temporarily escaped from the Bull Hotel.

The Ghent connection: once again Erwin Biliet, who organises the International Waiters Race Competition which takes place in Ghent (Belgium), will be present as our guest and will be accompanied by the winner of that race. The winner of the first prize in our race will also get the opportunity to travel to Ghent to take part in the International Waiters Race.

· All waiters and waitresses are welcome to join the race - please phone us on 01584 873957, or send us an e-mail or else just turn up 10 minutes before the start.

In the Demonstration Marque and the Talks Marquee:
Demonstrations, talks and workshops