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The Search is on
The search is on…..for THE Shropshire Lad and Lass with £5000 of prizes for the winners
Date Posted: 30th July 2018
Local Business Supports Charity Festival
Local Business Supports Charity Festival
Date Posted: 17th July 2018
Dormouse Surveying at Poles Coppice!
Dormouse Surveying at Poles Coppice!
Date Posted: 17th July 2018
Ludlow Food Centre Wins Two Bronze Awards at the 2018 British Cheese Awards
Ludlow Food Centre is celebrating having won Bronze awards for both their Unsalted butter and Cheese With No Name at the 2018 British Cheese Awards (www.britishcheeseawards.com/results).
Date Posted: 3rd July 2018
40th anniversary Grease outdoor cinema experience at Blists Hill Victorian Town Friday 6th July
Fans of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John will be treated to an outdoor screening of the original 1978 Grease film with a difference at Blists Hill Victorian Town, near Ironbridge on Friday evening, 6th July.
Date Posted: 26th June 2018
Shropshire Food Fair is introduced at Discovery Centre.
The Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms has been run by local charity, Grow Cook Learn for the last four years. Their mission is to make it an education and training centre for food-related skills, a visitor attraction linking food, history and landscape in the Shropshire Hills and a leisure resource for visitors and local residents.
Date Posted: 26th June 2018
Teddy Bears’ Picnics at Apley Farm Shop
Children from Shropshire are being invited to bring their teddy bears & go down to the woods this summer at Apley Farm Shop between Bridgnorth & Telford. Every childhood should include a Teddy Bears’ Picnic & there are six Wednesday picnic dates to choose from.
Date Posted: 25th June 2018
Classic car day is back again
A farm shop near Bridgnorth is holding its seventh annual classic motor day on Sunday July 15th. All classic & vintage cars & motorbikes are invited to be on display at Apley Farm Shop, with prizes awarded at 2pm. It’s a free event – free for cars to register & free for anyone to come & admire them.
Date Posted: 25th June 2018
Family Fun Day This Saturday at the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre
The annual Family Fun Day at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre this Saturday, 16th June from 12pm to 4pm. Celebrating British Summertime, with something for all the family from face painting to a licensed bar and a delicious barbecue, this is the perfect day out.
Date Posted: 12th June 2018
Steampunk Festival Weekend returns to Blists Hill Victorian Town 23rd – 24th June with Evening Concert
Grab your top hat and goggles and come dressed in your steampunk finery as you enter a world like no other for the second Steampunk Weekend Festival at Blists Hill Victorian Town, near Ironbridge with day and evening events over the weekend of Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June.
Date Posted: 12th June 2018
Apley Maze ticket competition opens
Fun-filled summer days for all ages can be found in a new maze at a farm shop between Telford & Bridgnorth. Apley Farm Shop is expecting to open its first maize maze on Sunday 15 July. “Our exact opening date of course depends on the weather over the next few months”, explained Lady Hamilton, Marketing Manager.
Date Posted: 7th June 2018
South Shropshire Family Business Raises £5000.00 for Macmillan at Annual Classic Motor Show
Eaton Manor Country Estate near Church Stretton held its fifth annual Classic Motor Show on Sunday with over 170 classic and interesting vehicles on display, from a Lagonda Rapier, an SS Jaguar and Singer Junior to modern classics including a Minis, Porsches and an LSE Range Rover, as well as a stationary oil engine and a variety of vintage tractors and bikes.
Date Posted: 25th May 2018
Local Charity Home Start Shropshire Selected as Ludlow Food Centre’s Charity of The Year
Ludlow Food Centre has delightedly announced that Home Start has been selected as their charity of the year. Chosen from a list of three charities because of their extensive knowledge and support for families and children locally and throughout the UK, both parties are excited about this year long partnership.
Date Posted: 23rd May 2018
New family attraction near Bridgnorth
Fun-filled summer days for all ages can be found in a new maze at a farm shop near Telford & Bridgnorth. Apley Farm Shop is expecting to open its first maize maze on Sunday 15 July. “Our exact opening date of course depends on the weather over the next few months”, explained Lady Hamilton, Marketing Manager.
Date Posted: 23rd May 2018
Weston Park prepares for Bank Holiday Weekend Food Festival
Preparations are well under way for the Great British Food Festival taking place in the grounds of the stunning Weston Park, near Telford over this Bank Holiday Weekend.
Date Posted: 22nd May 2018
Bee-rilliant May Half Term Activities at Severn Valley Country Park
The Shropshire Council rangers at Severn Valley Country Park are getting ready to celebrate our pollinator friends, bees, with a buzzin’ half term trail and activities. This is all in celebration of the Great British Bee Count citizen science survey that runs from 17th May to 30th June 2018.
Date Posted: 22nd May 2018
Celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday at Blists Hill Victorian Town Spring bank holiday weekend 26th and 27th May
Join the residents of Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire’s Ironbridge Gorge over the spring Bank holiday weekend of 26th and 27th May, when they will be celebrating the birthday and long reign of their much loved Queen Victoria with great pomp and pageantry.
Date Posted: 22nd May 2018
Britain's Got Talent Star to Appear at Shrewsbury Comedy Festival
The of Lee Ridley, AKA Lost Voice Guy, on Britain’s Got Talent comes as no surprise to organisers of the Shrewsbury international Comedy Festival – they already had him booked to appear on the Festival’s opening night.
Date Posted: 21st May 2018
Museums at Night
As part of the nationwide Museums at Night festival of arts, culture and heritage, Enginuity, one of the 10 Ironbridge Gorge Museums will be opening its doors free of charge on Friday 18 May from 5pm- 8pm. During the evening you can join a talk and tour of two of the latest temporary exhibitions at Coalbrookdale and take part in hands-on family printing workshops.
Date Posted: 16th May 2018
Ludlow Food Centre Butchers Scoop Three Awards at National Meat Products Competition
The Butchers at Ludlow Food Centre took home 3 awards from the National Meat Products Competition (NMPC) held at Foodex, NEC Birmingham on 17th April.
Date Posted: 9th May 2018
