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17 May 2023
The Manfred’s
Theatre Severn
Wednesday 17th May
The Manfreds, celebrating 60 years of making music with a nationwide tour arrived onto Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn stage to a packed house. People expecting the sharp vocals and stage presence of Paul Jones and a bag full of singalong hits may have been surprised as that was not so, not so at all.
Instead, one watched as the band worked their way...
17 May 2023
The annual Battle of Shropshire, a popular addition to the Shropshire tennis calendar in recent years, once again proved a big hit with county players of all ages.
The event saw players placed in one of two teams - Team Sabin, named in honour of Shropshire’s former LTA president Cathie Sabin, who sadly passed away in 2020, and Team Smith, in tribute to current Tennis Shropshire president Keith...
17 May 2023
Shropshire community projects have benefitted from nearly £100,000 of funding thanks to grants generated by a county solar farm.
The Twemlows Solar Farm on the edge of Whitchurch – which has a 10MW capacity and can power up to 3,300 homes - has made £91,634 available for community projects since it was set up in 2015, new figures show.
Now one of the organisations which manages the grants is...
16 May 2023
Emma Rawicz Quintet
June 17
£23/£12 U22
Described as "a force to be reckoned with", multi-award winning saxophonist & composer Emma Rawicz makes her SJN at the Hive debut. Her all star quintet comprising Ant Law (guitar), Ivo Neame (piano), Conor Chaplin (bass), Asaf Sirkis (drums) needs no introduction. Her music has a unique sound, fusing many influences, and her compositions range from...
15 May 2023
An afternoon of coronation celebrations took place at the new Copthorne Keep development in Shrewsbury on Bank Holiday Monday.
Residents at the Bellway development off Copthorne Road, which is being built on the former Copthorne Barracks site, took part in fun activities and browsed the stalls at the event to mark the royal weekend.
Organised by the Copthorne Keep residents’ group, the day...
14 May 2023
K-pop, cruise holidays, Game of Thrones, country music, Bruce Springsteen’s back catalogue, football and Wimbledon – well, all ball-sports for that matter, Bounty bars, Coldplay, Ant and Dec, beer, coconut, The Scott Mills show… All of the aforementioned have an enormous and devoted following. However, the appeal of each and every one of them is completely lost on me.
And then there’s the...
11 May 2023
A sheep’s head was one of the more unusual items collected by Shropshire litter pickers as part of the coronation Big Help Out.
More than 20 bags of rubbish were collected by litter picking group Great Mess to Little Mess on Monday (MAY 8) as part of the national volunteering project to mark the coronation of King Charles.
The group, based around Great Ness and Little Ness, made good use of hi-...
11 May 2023
Morris Property has teamed up with Shrewsbury Food Festival to launch a school garden competition.
Primary school aged children are invited to design a new garden area for their school or local community group. The top three designs will be displayed at the Shrewsbury Food Festival on the 24 and 25 June, where visitors will vote to decide the winning design.
Morris Property will build the design...
10 May 2023
Centre for the New Midlands (CNM) is to host its inaugural ‘Connections for Prosperity’ conference to discuss the role infrastructure has in solving the challenges and opportunities facing the region’s people, economy, and environment.
From 5th to 6th July, at Warwick Conferences, University of Warwick, Coventry, ‘Connections for Prosperity’ will bring together key public and private sector...
09 May 2023
Wish You Were Dead
Theatre Severn
Tuesday 9th May- Saturday 13th May
(Weds & Sat Matinees 14.30hrs)
When English Police Detective Roy Grace goes away to France for a quiet break with his wife Cleo, baby Noah and their friend Caitlin, who could imagine that anything could go wrong in this little less than idyllic Chateau in the French Provinces? But this is Peter James and with as many twists...
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