Business
18 Apr 2023
More than 60 people gathered at a special event in Shrewsbury to help families navigate the legal and financial complexities around care options in later life.
Organiser Shropshire law firm FBC Manby Bowdler was joined by dementia charity The Alzheimer’s Society, Shropshire Community Resource, Home Instead and the Mayfair Centre at the event held at Shrewsbury Town Football Club.
Graham Fuller,...
18 Apr 2023
Two Shropshire companies are working in partnership to promote each other’s quality products and services to their customers.
Furrows Group, which has Ford, Mazda, Kia and Skoda new car franchises in Shrewsbury, Telford and Oswestry, has teamed up with award-winning caravan and motorhome dealership Salop Leisure, based at Emstrey, Shrewsbury.
Furrows is loaning a new Mazda CX-60 in the company’s...
14 Apr 2023
Benevolent farmer Emyr Wigley has not given up on his dream of raising £250,000 for two charities in memory of his late wife, Evelyn.
Last month, Emyr, 78, who lives at Deytheur, near Llansantffraid, sold his unique, charity herd of pedigree British Blue cattle at auction in Shrewsbury for £81,000.
The sum achieved by the Old Stackyard Blues herd took the total Emyr has raised so far to nearly £...
12 Apr 2023
Employees of two Shrewsbury-based companies have raised £13,842 for Hope House children’s hospice and have pledged to carry on fundraising for the charity during 2023.
Employees from Morris Lubricants, the oil and lubricant manufacturer and Morris Leisure, who own six caravan holiday home and touring caravan sites in beautiful Shropshire, Herefordshire and North Wales, organised a wide range of...
12 Apr 2023
A popular specialist plants centre in Shrewsbury celebrated its 10th birthday on Good Friday.
A special birthday cake was made to celebrate the occasion at Love Plants, located at Salop Leisure’s Emstrey headquarters, which was opened by award-winning gardener and landscape designer Chris Beardshaw on April 7, 2013.
Customers, who have joined the free Friends of Love Plants loyalty card scheme,...
12 Apr 2023
The coronation of King Charles III has inspired an award-winning Shropshire-based leisure company to rename its major spring show this year.
The event, which is being held by Salop Leisure at the company’s Emstrey headquarters in Shrewsbury from May 5-8, has been renamed the West Midlands Caravan & Motorhome Show Coronation Extravaganza. It’s UK’s largest caravan and motorhome show that has...
11 Apr 2023
Six legal experts at one of Shropshire’s leading law firms are celebrating big promotions this month.
Four new partners and two new associates have been created at FBC Manby Bowdler, which has branches across Shropshire and the West Midlands.
Suzanne Tucker, Alison Price, Christina Polychronakis and Elizabeth Harris-Clark have all been made partners, while Laurie Carruthers and Jaspreet Kler are...
11 Apr 2023
Shrewsbury-based speciality coffee roaster, Iron & Fire, has made three senior appointments to support its continued growth across both its trade and direct to consumer customer bases. The latest round of recruitment equates to an increase in headcount of a third.
Founded in 2014, Iron & Fire has established itself as a firm favourite amongst independent coffee shops, restaurants, and...
08 Apr 2023
SWS Broadband has fast-tracked two Shropshire villages to receive its ultra-fast, full fibre broadband services.
Due for completion in late summer 2023, the roll out by the Shrewsbury based company will take place in Minsterley and Pontesbury. Customers will have a choice of packages and connections from 150Mbps to 900Mbps, with monthly prices starting at £36.
Chris New, CEO of SWS Broadband,...
04 Apr 2023
A building firm has received three shortlistings in awards that celebrate the best construction projects and companies in the Midlands
Pave Aways, which is based near Oswestry in Shropshire, will go through to the next round of judging for the Conservation and Regeneration award in the Constructing Excellence West Midlands Awards for its work to renovate and extend the Riggs Hall boarding house...
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