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Ton up!

To celebrate 100 years of the Royal Air Force, RAF Museum Cosford has set a new challenge to run 100km in 100 days. The Spitfire 100K

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Action against loneliness

The award-winning Chatterbox Action against Loneliness and Crisis Support Programme helps people come to terms with bereavement and deal with end of life situations. Chatterbox,

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Birchmeadow Beer

When a musician’s CV drops names like Mike Oldfield, the Rolling Stones and Steve Harley, you know you’re dealing with a man at the top

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Careena’s magic!

A familiar face on the local scene for her work as a children’s entertainer, magician Careena Fenton has returned from the USA with a trophy

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Sketchy artists

Ever wanted to go sketching outdoors but don’t know where to start? A new workshop by a Bridgnorth artist could be just what you need.

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Cemetery damaged

A Much Wenlock cemetery tended by a community group suffered damage in January when unknown vandals ploughed their vehicle or vehicles through it, leaving ground

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Tadlop’s timely show

Tadlop (Telford and District Light Operatic Players) are putting on a musical that couldn’t be more topical. ‘Made in Dagenham’ celebrates the women of the

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Snaps for Jan

Broseley’s Camera Club held its inaugural competition to honour former member Jan Lancaster. The them for the memorial contest was ‘columns’, and the winner was

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The end of an era

In November last year, Aga’s foundry at Coalbrookdale closed its doors for the last time, bringing to an end a monumental chapter in the area’s

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Furnaces protected

Bedlam Furnaces, one of the most important industrial monuments in the Ironbridge Gorge, has been taken off Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register, thanks to

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Castlefield remembers

Children from Years 5 and 6 at Bridgnorth’s Castlefields Primary School visited the town’s cemetery on Remembrance Day to pay their respects to soldiers who

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MRI simulators

A Design Technology teacher at Prestfelde School has tasked his pupils with building an imitation MRI scanner to help young patients overcome fears of undergoing

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