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A music festival organiser has said the sunny forecast meant fewer worries for his team this year. It will be the third year The Parklands Festival has been held in Telford Town Park, with more than 80 acts booked to perform on Saturday and Sunday. Festival organiser Barry Holland said: "When you get a forecast like that there's a lot of other things you don't have to worry about like […]
Telford's only judo club has relocated to larger premises after receiving a business start-up grant. Wrekin Star Judo, which was founded 60 years ago, has been operating from the upper floors in Wellington Market, but has now moved to a bigger base in Church Street. The new site will enable the club, run as a volunteer-led social enterprise, to host regional and national events through the British Judo Association. Coach […]
A heritage railway line will fully reopen, after an embankment collapse, in late July, with the Flying Scotsman heading up the first service. Land between Bridgnorth and Hampton Loade on the Severn Valley Railway gave way at the Mor Brook bridge on 30 January and trains have only been running between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Hampton Loade, Shropshire. The 16-mile route between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth in Shropshire will fully reopen […]
It has been 30 years since Caroline Magnus inherited Stokesay Court in Shropshire. One Hollywood movie and thousands of visitors later, she is preparing to close to its doors, but said she had had a "fantastic time". She was working in London in 1994 when she learned she had been left the country estate by her aunt, and she spent the next 10 years making it fit to live in. […]
An 87-year-old who has led a team of volunteers in a country park for 34 years has said he is "absolutely baffled" to receive a British Empire Medal in the King's Birthday Honours list. Don Bannister said he started working in Severn Valley Country Park in Shropshire in 1991 because he was looking for something to do after taking voluntary redundancy. He is one of six people from the county […]
Bosses at a heritage railway line say "significant progress" has been made in repairing an embankment that collapsed almost five months ago. The land between Bridgnorth and Hampton Loade, on the Severn Valley Railway, gave way at the Mor Brook bridge on 30 January. Since then, trains have been restricted to running between Kidderminster and Hampton Loade. The heritage line said more than 2,500 tonnes of material had been excavated […]
A charity has launched a £5m appeal to create a new cancer treatment centre. Lingen Davies Cancer Support said the facility in Telford would "double the capacity of chemotherapy provision" in the area. It said it would offer up to 30 chemotherapy bays, outpatient clinics, a specialist urology investigations unit, and a lung diagnostic centre. The charity said the Sunflower Appeal was its biggest appeal to date. The cancer services […]
Thousands of military aviation enthusiasts gathered on Sunday for the RAF Cosford Air Show - the only one of its kind organised by the Air Force. As well as The Red Arrows, display teams from Ireland, Poland, and the Netherlands took to the skies above the Shropshire base. Sqn Ldr Dave Kerrison, one of the organisers, said there had been lots to enjoy. The event was first held in 1978, […]
Volunteers on paddleboards, kayaks, and canoes have cleared dozens of bags of rubbish from the River Severn in Shrewsbury. About 30 took part and their haul included traffic cones, car tyres, plastic chairs and lots of fishing gear. The clean up on Sunday was organised by Shrewsbury Vegans and their co-founder Chris Houlston said: "The paddleboards meant we could grab the rubbish that's often inaccessible from the riverbank." He is […]
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