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Film Society’s Pride: LGBTQ+ Season returns for a second year! Oswestry Film Society has announced the films for their Pride Season showing at Oswestry’s award…
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Residential students from North Shropshire College’s (NSC’s) Walford Campus recently visited Twemlows Stud Farm in Whitchurch. The farm is set in the beautiful Shropshire countryside.…
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Blue skies and the stunning colours of Autumn provided the perfect backdrop to Moreton Hall’s latest Senior School Open day this weekend. Set amidst the…
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Having painted a World War I Mural on the Welsh Walls during the Summer Term, Marches School students have painted a second mural near Oswestry.…
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This year’s Oswestry Christmas light switch on has been planned for 22 November. James Bond from Radio Shropshire will present the show, starting at 4pm…
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A student at the Marches Sixth Form recently took part in the Rotary Young Leadership Award (RYLA). Fraya Gilies-Foers spent five nights at Arthog, an…
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A new training aid has been added to the Oswestry Cambrian Rotary community project to get as many people as possible on the streets with…
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A beacon is to be lit at Old Oswestry hillfort as part of national Armistice Day commemorations marking 100 years since the end of World…
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Oswestry in Bloom winners were announced at Cabin Lane Church, where Miss Margaret Thrower and chairman of the committee Miss Betty Gull handed out the…
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Concrete specialists from a Shropshire firm have unveiled a new self-compacting product. The team from TG Concrete, which is part of the Tudor Griffiths Group,…
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Five-year-old Erin Harris from Oswestry has completed a three-mile sponsored walk in memory of her great grandad Reg Kilvert, who passed away in August. The…
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An acquisition this October will bring together two of the region’s longest established law firms. GHP Legal, a Top Tier Legal 500 firm and one…
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Hirnant Community Centre, the former church of St Illog, serves a scattered community in the beautiful countryside between Penybontfawr and Lake Vyrnwy. One of the…
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THE Rotary Club of Oswestry invites applications from local organisations for grants from the Mary Hignett Bequest Fund. Local author, teacher and naturalist Mary Hignett…
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ROTARY RotaKids Groups are a fun and exciting way for children aged 7-12 to make friends and get involved with important activities in their community…
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One of the region’s leading agricultural law firms has been reappointed to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) legal panel for a third time in succession.…
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Oswestry knitting group, The Crafty Knitters recently presented a selection of handmade ‘twiddle muffs’ to the New Fairholme at the Senior Citizens Hall. The cosy…
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Three Oswestry School footballers have made a name for themselves internationally after taking part in some of the world’s biggest footballing competitions. Ben Clark travelled…
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Students from Oswestry Tae Kwon Do competed at the North Midlands Area Championships in Derby Arena, coming home with five medals. The competition featured over…
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A ‘life-saving’ staff nurse at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital has been named the latest Health Hero. Mel McMahon, who works on…
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A new clothes shop will be opening its doors later this month on Beatrice Street.  The Blue Hanger Clothing Co. ill be  run by business partners…
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A kind-hearted beauty salon owner and her team have raised over £1500 for Lingen Davies Cancer fund after being touched by friends and family fighting…
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“The Holroyd Community Theatre will provide a state of the art performance space with a 240 seat auditorium designed to accommodate the very best that…
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The gift of communication can open up a whole new world and enrich our lives and experiences Have you ever travelled abroad to another country…
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Having celebrated success at both GCSE and A Level last month, the Marches have begun the 2018-19 academic year in determined fashion. With over 100…
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Tyn Dwr Hall, one of the UK’s top wedding venues is to host an exclusive, Christmas charity Fundraising Ball for the first time, in aid…
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Here is an update on all the exciting ways to get involved with Oswestry Makes 2018, which is a festival throughout October to celebrate all…
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Not content with writing and publishing just one book this year, sport-mad father-of-two Richard Carpenter is going for the ‘double’. The 41-year-old from Tetchill in…
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It was a dream come true for 20 year old Jay Steele when he was offered a trainee sales consultant role at award-winning Vauxhall dealer…
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Long established Vauxhall dealer Arthurs of Oswestry has won another award for customer service. And for the first time the Lower Brook Street dealership is…
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Leading Shropshire amateur swimming club, Oswestry Otters, is celebrating achieving charity status thanks to support from Shrewsbury law firm Aaron & Partners. Lawyers from the…
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In what turned out to be a first for Oswestry Golf Club a Mother and Daughter reached the 2018 Ladies Club Championship Final Judith &…
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A Shropshire businessman has organised a 100-mile charity cycle ride to mark the final year of the First World War centenary and raise money for the…
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A continuing growth in the sale of new Vauxhall and Peugeot cars is increasing the demand for ‘smart repairs.’ In the six months since the…
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Visitors are invited to take a trip back in time to find out more about the extraordinary woman who founded Shropshire’s Derwen College back in…
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The Marches School has been celebrating success in the new, more challenging GCSE examinations. Top grades are again at a high level, resulting in a…
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Moreton Hall is once again celebrating a vintage set of GCSE results, with over half of all grades awarded the equivalent of A* and A…
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Face2Face Performance Academy in Shropshire is inviting talented young performers to take centre stage during an audition event next month, as part of their scholarship…
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Hope House Children’s Hospices are appealing for people to join them on their annual Welshpool Canal Walk this September. Last year’s Canal Walk raised more…
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Moreton Hall student, Alice Williams has more to celebrate than a grade A in her Theatre Studies A level. The Drama scholarship student has beaten…
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Booka Bookshop have announced an evening with historian and BAFTA winning broadcaster and TV presenter Dan Snow as he talks about his new book, On…
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A pair of inspirational young friends got on their bikes to raise funds for a children’s hospice charity. Zech Newton, 10, and his 14 year…
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Oswestry motor dealers Furrows have been so impressed with a local student that they’ve given him a job. The team at Furrows of Oswestry have been…
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Moreton Hall is celebrating another stellar set of results, cementing its position as the top non-selective school in the UK. Students worthy of individual mention…
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A teacher from Trefonen Primary School who volunteers in Africa in her free time has organised a fundraising exercise as part of a Geography topic…
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Oswestry-based charity, Qube, is inviting young people aged 14-19 living in Oswestry and the surrounding area to take part in a brand-new weekly Youth Music…
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The sixth annual Oswestry Community Games is set to take place on 23 September in Cae Glas Park from 11am to 3.45pm. It promises to…
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A teenager from Oswestry has raised over £3300 with a 12-hour sponsored wodathon cross-fit workout and a raffle held at Basecamp Gym. Abbie Dean raised…
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A Shropshire law firm has signed up to a scheme which pledges to help and support serving and retired armed forces personnel and their families.…
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An Oswestry family who recently held a charity evening have raised £1,800 for the Children’s Wales Air Ambulance. Nia Morris and her husband Ian and daughter Alice from…
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