Oswestry Life

An architectural design firm has marked its seventh anniversary with a new website. Ke-design, who were founded in Oswestry in 2011 and have now expanded…
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EACH year the Rotary Club of Oswestry is pleased to sponsor an award at The Marches School Speech Day for “Service to the School”. This…
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IN 2018, this year of commemorating the centenary of the end of the Great War, it was appropriate that this was the topic chosen for…
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Aico Ltd, a UK market leader in Smoke and CO detection, recently welcomed final year Electrical Installation students from Coleg Cambria to our state of…
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Aico Ltd, a market leader in domestic Smoke and CO alarms are celebrating winning two prestigious awards within a matter of weeks. The first being…
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International Festival & Summer School PIANO WEEK will hold its third consecutive summer residency at Moreton Hall School between 23rd July and 4th August 2018. Following…
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Students and staff at North Shropshire College (NSC) are benefiting from a recent £550,000 funding package from the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The investment…
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Students at Derwen College will be making the final arrangements to their annual Prom thanks to a generous cash boost from DPA architects, in Oswestry.…
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Moreton Hall is delighted to announce that they have been awarded the prestigious HMC (The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference) accreditation with immediate effect, reinforcing Moreton…
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In a bid to cement North Shropshire Music’s proud partnership with the Shropshire Music Educational Hub, musicians from North Shropshire Training and Schools Orchestras took…
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Throughout the day, The Day Lewis chain of pharmacies nationally have taken part with their annual charity day.  Staff at the Day Lewis Pharmacy located in…
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Hundreds of people are expected to descend upon The Marches School in Oswestry on Saturday 30th June and enjoy an abundance of fun and entertainment…
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There was a special assembly this morning at Packwood Haugh School in Ruyton XI Towns as we welcomed Lynsey Kilvert from Hope House Children’s Hospice…
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An Oswestry mum of two is overwhelmed by the response to a charity event she is organising next month.  Nia Morris and her husband Ian and daughter…
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Mercy Ships use hospital ships to deliver free, vital medical care to some of the world’s poorest countries. Oswestry Borderland Rotary Club have been supporting…
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A 20 year-plus partnership between a motor dealer and a cricket club has been further strengthened for the season now underway. Award-winning Arthurs Vauxhall has…
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Students at a specialist college, near Oswestry, are celebrating fabulous fathers on Sunday, 17th June by serving up a dedicated Father’s Day menu. Hospitality and…
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MEMBERS of Oswestry Rotary Club have been busy. Kindly permitted by M&S Simply Food Oswestry to make a bucket collection at their Smithfield Road store…
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  For many years now, Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital and Severn Hospice had enjoyed a successful partnership; and once again Nuffield Health staff, colleagues and…
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Booka Bookshop are thrilled to present an evening with Monty Python stalwart and much loved television globetrotter Michael Palin talking about his latest book Erebus:…
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Thirteen-year-old Zennor Harvey from Packwood Haugh School in Ruyton XI Towns led her team to victory in a two-day event at Princethorpe College in Warwickshire…
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Sporty fundraisers representing Derwen College, near Oswestry, have spent hours training and raising sponsorship in readiness for the challenging Shrewsbury Half Marathon on Sunday 17th…
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MARCHES SCHOOL HEADS FOR PARIS 59 Marches School pupils and staff headed for Paris as part of their Languages lessons. The MFL trip to Paris…
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A Gobowen charity that helps children with disabilities which affect their movement has received a donation from a regional builder to help them buy sensory…
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Healthwatch Shropshire is looking for volunteers to help us reach more people so that they can help to shape the health and social care services…
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Oswestry School’s Sixth Form entrepreneurs have been busy again this year and have raised an incredible £928 for charity. Pupils are invited to bid for…
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This year’s Montgomery Canal Triathlon on 19th May was the best ever, say organisers. A total of 247 took part in one, two or three…
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The skip seat will now be used at events to promote not just TG Enviro’s skip hire capabilities, but other Group services too, and to…
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Generous slimmers in Oswestry have raised hundreds of pounds for charity by donating the clothes they’ve successfully slimmed out of and know they’ll no longer…
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Hope House and Ty Gobaith children’s hospices have paid tribute to the 600 amazing and incredible volunteers who help make it possible to fund and…
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The former Co-op Bank building in Oswestry town centre has been put up for sale by auction with a guide price of £100,000. The 1,700…
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A group of passionate volunteers in Shropshire celebrated a hugely successful first year of fundraising for dementia research by visiting a laboratory to see the…
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Moreton Hall hosted a special event for Cancer Research UK on Saturday 12th May raising over £2500! Emily King, a Lower Sixth student, organised Moreton’s…
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Phoebe Shaw, a year 8 pupil at the Marches School has reached the National Final of a Peace Poster Competition organised by the Lions Club.…
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The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH), Powys NHS and Marches Academy Trust have all joined forces to give students an exciting opportunity…
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Two young lads from Oswestry are going to attempt to ride their bicycles from Oswestry all the way to Rhayader! Zech who is 10 and…
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WITH a refreshed initiative, The Rotary Club of Oswestry and Oswestry Library have launched a joint Health and Wellbeing Awareness Programme for 2018. Making good…
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Food is always at the top of every visitor’s mind here at the Ironworks. As they arrive, the first building they visit, our showroom and…
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ALTHOUGH originally sited elsewhere in the village, Llanymynech Bowling Club (LBC) has been on the King George V playing field on Station Road in the…
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The sound of thundering hooves and braying donkeys filled the air at Packwood Haugh School in Ruyton XI Towns last Friday (4th May). Pupils, parents,…
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Sir David Attenborough, who is best known for his commentary on nature documentaries such as Blue Planet, replied to a request to attend an assembly…
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The head of one of North Wales’ largest Family and Mental Health legal teams is in training for one of the toughest challenges of her…
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One of the region’s top law firms, with offices in Wrexham, Llangollen, Chirk and Oswestry, has announced the appointment of two new partners. GHP Legal,…
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IT was surprising how quickly time passed when Mark Hignett, volunteer and founder at Oswestry Town Museum, spoke to members of Oswestry Rotary Club about…
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A talented team of young footballers from Baschurch took part in a sponsored Parkrun to raise monies for their new kit (as seen in the photo)…
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The History Department at the Marches School has been given a highly credited award recently, as it has become a Gold Member of the Historical…
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For the third year running a pupil from Oswestry School has won The John Cranwell Trophy in this year’s Oswestry Borderland Rotary Young Writers Competition.…
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A royal party, set to rival the revelry in the capital, will be raising the rafters at Derwen College, near Oswestry. Celebrations for Prince Harry…
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A group of nurses and former nursing staff will hold their annual reunion dinner at a specialist residential college which was founded by pioneering nurse…
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Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin is looking for volunteers in and around Oswestry and Ellesmere to help older people. The local charity is keen…
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