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Towns history celebrated

Bridgnorth History Fortnight, which marks 10 years of Bridgnorth Library’s successful history weeks and the local and family history volunteer afternoons, will take place from

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Local artist workshops

Two artists from the area have a busy autumn lined up. Bridgnorth-based Vicki Norman is running a two-day course painting the beautiful surroundings of Westhope

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Choir mania!

On 30 September at 7.30pm, some of the best-loved singers in the Bridgnorth area will be joining forces in Bridgnorth Choir Mania. Bridgnorth’s Community Pop

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Rotary’s record year

Bridgnorth Rotary celebrated another successful year of fundraising, fellowship and increasing membership with the Rotary Classic Car Run at the end of July which attracted

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Folk at the Hive

This autumn, Shrewsbury’s Hive is delivering another season of the very finest folk with its Uptown Folk series, including a visit from acclaimed husband and

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Church Stretton arts

Three well-known artists will appear as part of the Church Stretton Arts Festival. Paul Hipkiss was recently described as one of the foremost British linocut

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Broseley Jar Family

Broseley’s Birchmeadow Centre will welcome back the Jar Family on Saturday 8 July. Described as ‘Dylan meets the Pogues meets Springsteen’, the band’s last visit

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School tackles theme

For this year’s annual drama production, the drama department at Shrewsbury High School made the decision to tackle the difficult but extremely topical storyline of

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Bake off queen

Candice Brown, winner of last year’s Great British Bake Off, will be the star attraction at the Newport Show this year. The PE teacher-turned-baker, who

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Funny Girl

Hot on the heels of a record-breaking and critically acclaimed West End run, this ‘utterly irresistible’ new production of ‘Funny Girl’, starring West End leading

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Prestfelde celebrates

Pupils from Prestfelde Prep School in Shrewsbury are celebrating having claimed the Shropshire U11 Cricket crown with a convincing display that saw them go through

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Brightening the way

Year 6 pupils from the Old Hall School in Wellington spent five days in France, participating in a variety of activities including visiting the significant

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Programming the future

Students from Brockton Primary school spent an exciting morning exploring tiny computers called Microbits. The students were set 10 different computing challenges on the machines,

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Bridgnorth Festival

The Bridgnorth Music & Arts Festival, which is Shropshire’s largest free festival, looks all set for another bumper year of live performances, communal viewing, artwork,

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Peter Pan flies in

As the summer draws to a close, Attingham Park will play host to Chapterhouse Theatre Company as they perform JM Barrie’s much loved tale of

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Banner for Thiers

Children from St Leonard’s Primary School in Bridgnorth have designed and created a banner as part of the Bridgnorth and District Twinning Association banner project

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A New Flame

With more than 30 Top 40 singles and several of the best-selling albums of the last four decades to choose from, ‘A New Flame’ brings

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Angels in America

The National Theatre Live programme will present a two-part drama ‘Angels in America’ which will be screened at The Edge, Much Wenlock. The play takes

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Special visitor

Pupils at Church Preen Primary enjoyed a visit from one of the school’s former pupils. Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, TV presenter

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