Apprentice star ordered to repaint yellow shop for causing 'harm' to pretty market town

Marianne Rawlins and her husband, Simon, opened a baby and toddler store in Stamford, Lincolnshire in 2023 (Image: SWNS) A star of BBC's The Apprentice has been ordered to change the colour of her shop in a historic market town after she painted it yellow without planning permission. Marianne Rawlins, 41, was told the colours were 'harming' the character of the Grade II-listed building in Stamford, Lincolnshire — previously named "Britain's most picturesque town." Marianne had given her new baby and toddler store a lick of paint after opening in St Mary’s Street last September after it had laid empty for two years.

She said the yellow colour, called cherished gold, was selected from Dulux's heritage range while the black was chosen to match the existing Tudor beams. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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