It hasn't been plain sailing over the last 15 years for cob shop owner Fiona Fillingham with ups and downs along the way. But 15 years is a milestone worth celebrating, especially at a time when so many small businesses are closing down.
The shop, Taste, has had a revamp inside and out - carried out by Fiona and her husband Michael over Christmas and the New Year. She relaunched the business in Kirkby-in-Ashfield on Monday (January 9) with a birthday cake, fizz, a stilt walker Luke Baker and a visit from Ashfield MP Lee Anderson.
The shop was a convenience store which sold "a few breakfast cobs" when Fiona, a former forklift truck saleswoman, took it over. She said: "My uncle had had a cob shop in Annesley and while my children were growing up I went and helped him out and just fell in love with preparing the food and serving the customers.
