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Theatre set to welcome folk festival singer Richard Shindell

American folk singer-songwriter Richard Shindell will follow up his appearance at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival with a performance at Theatre Severn on Friday 3rd September.
An expatriate New Yorker now living in Argentina, his current tour sees him return to Europe with an astonishing collection of covers including a thorough rehabilitation of Bruce Springsteen’s often misunderstood [...]

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Hollywood Couple to lead the cast in Bedroom Comedy at Theatre Severn

Hollywood Couple to lead the cast in Bedroom Comedy at Theatre Severn

Emmy award-winning actress Juliet Mills will lead an all-star cast as Alan Ayckbourn’s ingenious comedy Bedroom Farce arrives at Theatre Severn following a smash hit run in the West End. The plays opens on Monday 30 August and runs until Saturday 4 September.
Deliciously funny and critically acclaimed, Peter Hall’s production features four couples, three bedrooms, [...]

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4Starters

A refreshing change to learning hits Shropshire

Two local businesses are joining forces to bring a new way of training business owners in Shropshire. Jan Minihane, business advisor and founder of ‘Shropshire Jelly’ free co-working events, and Tim O’Grady of Enhancing Businesses have launched ‘…4Starters’; hands-on interactive learning.
Jan Minihane says “Tim and I both noticed that there are a lot of workshops [...]

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Bored of the traditional bird box?

Bored of the traditional bird box?

Shropshire furniture designer / maker Tim Dodwell has the solution.
So you want a bird box in your garden but bored of boxes? Shropshire furniture designer / maker Tim Dodwell gives us something a bit different. The Bird Pod-d.
Its a modern take on the bird box with a striking shape, unique design and hand crafted construction.
The [...]

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Crumblicious Cupcake Competition

Crumblicious Cupcake Competition

In line with national cupcake week (13th – 19th Sept) Crumblicious, a new cake venture in Oswestry, cordially invites you to design your own cupcake! The winning child will be invited to Crumblicious, to bake their own creation of delicious cake and take twelve home!
The winning flavour will also be available at Crumblicious during National [...]

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Augusts Creative Boom Shrewsbury Banner by Anil Amrit

Augusts Creative Boom Shrewsbury Banner by Anil Amrit

Designed Anil Amrit, this months banner is something a bit different. It was inspired by the Soul Wax album covers so stand back to get the full effect!
Anil, is a fantastic freelance graphic and web designer from Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Born in 1972, Anil started from raw basics years before the introduction of computer-based [...]

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Diary of a Newbie Freelancer – The Beginning

Written by Claire Dowdall
Well I did it.  I handed in my notice at work last week and am now officially a freelancer, and boy does it feel good!  Well at least I think it does…
Last week I was very kindly given gardening leave from my full time marketing job and used that time to get [...]

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The Charity Shop Cabaret

True West teamed up with Trifle Gathering Productions to present:
The Charity Shop Cabaret
An exciting concoction of cutting-edge theatre and surreal comedy. A hilarious journey into Elspeth Garter’s charity shop: a welcoming world of rummage and romance, jumble and joy, bingo and the bizarre.
Not having had a customer for eight months, Elspeth and her trusty volunteers [...]

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RIP the Brochure Website?

Written by Paul Weston from Profile Builder
No-one can be bothered anymore to wade through multiple-page brochure websites. Only a small percentage of web users progress beyond a site’s Home page, so why hide stuff on other pages which are not going to be visited? In fact, why have other pages? It’s apparently the law – [...]

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Nellie’s Patch Natural Soap Makers

Natural soap makers from Kinnerley, near Oswestry, Nellie’s Patch produces palm oil free, herbal soaps. Julie along with her husband, grow all their own herbs and flowers that are put into each luxury bar.
Julie says “ It gives us so much more control over the type of herbs/flowers that we use, and we don’t need [...]

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The Shropshire Guild of Contemporary Craft will be ‘Showing Off’ again, this October with their annual craft show

‘Showing Off’ will be held at Ludlow’s Harley Centre over the weekend of 23rd and 24th of October.
‘Showing Off’ incorporates not only designer makers from the Shropshire Guild, but also the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen and guest designer makers.
Caroline Bennett, Shropshire Guild member and organiser of  ‘Showing Off’ said “the event promises to offer [...]

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Bowjangles in concert

Bowjangles.. all singing, all dancing string quartet come to Shropshire.
Bowjangles combine fiery musicianship with energetic dance moves, vaudeville comedy and four part harmony singing in a dazzling stage show which will leave you spellbound.
This stunning act harks back to the good [...]

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