A Newark-born musician has retired from an orchestra — after four decades of playing music around the world. Rob Shepley, of Newark, has retired from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra after 40 years. Rob was born in Newark in 1960 and studied the violin at Grove comprehensive school from the age of thirteen, taught by Anthony Foster who was a well renowned teacher in Nottinghamshire. This led to him training in the Nottinghamshire County Youth Orchestra under conductor Christopher Adey, touring with them to Rome where the orchestra received the honour of an audience with Pope John Pau…