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The Mayor & Mayoress Councillor Miles & Mrs Aurona Kenny invite you and your family/friends to join them at a post Flower Show Summer Lunch in the Members’ Marquee, The Quarry, Shrewsbury, SY1 1RW on Sunday 16th August 2015 at 12.30 for 1.00 pm in aid of the Mayor’s Charities Lingen Davies Cancer Fund &…

Shrewsbury Town Council will be supporting Shrewsbury BID with its first entry into the Heart of England in Bloom contest. After being crowned RHS Britain in Bloom Champion of Champions last year, the Town Council is taking a well-deserved break from the contest and instead has been guiding Shrewsbury BID with an entry in its…

Shrewsbury Town Council has established a working party to manage the creation of an Investment and Development Plan (IDP) which it says will provide a framework for its future progression. Members unanimously supported a motion at a meeting held in June to create the IDP which will look to consolidate, improve and extend the Council’s…

Members of the public are invited to join the Mayor & Mayoress of Shrewsbury for the annual Flower Show lunch. The post-show luncheon will take place on August 16 in the Members’ Marquee in the Quarry, by kind permission of the Shropshire Horticultural Society and Attwoolls. Guests are requested to arrive at 12.30 for 1pm…

A record number of hanging baskets will bring a kaleidoscope of colour to Shrewsbury town centre throughout the summer. Shrewsbury Town Council has planted up and installed a blooming marvellous 372 baskets this year, a large proportion of which have been purchased by town centre shops and businesses as part of the Council’s commercial hanging…

Shrewsbury Town Council will be holding its council and committee meetings at a different venue as work to prepare the Guildhall for its first raft of students in September is now underway. The Council is currently based at the Guildhall, where it will remain for the time being. However all of its various committee meetings,…

Budding Beckhams are invited to master their football skills at a summer holiday club in Shrewsbury. Pass Master coaching, in association with Shrewsbury Town Council, will be offering coaching sessions for boys and girls aged five to 11 at Monkmoor Recreation Centre, on the outdoor astroturf. Sessions will take place every Monday, Wednesday and Friday…

The winner of Shrewsbury Town Council’s First World War poster competition has been announced. The Mayor of Shrewsbury, Councillor Miles Kenny, selected a poster designed by 11-year-old Emily Johnson Tozer, from Greenfields Primary School, as the winning entry. The poster will now be displayed in the Dingle gardens as part of a commemorative display.  Primary school children…

Members of the public are invited to put their best foot forward and take part in a guided walk at Battlefield Heritage site. The walk, organized by Shrewsbury Town Council’s Countryside Unit, is being held on July 18 from 10.30am and will focus on the battle of 1403. The group will be led by local…

Shrewsbury will soon be awash with colour as the Town Council’s summer planting scheme gets firmly underway. The mammoth task to bring a cacophony of colour to the town centre began last week and will see more than 300,000 home-grown blooms planted out in various locations. More than 30,000 plants alone are earmarked for Shrewsbury’s…

A trader at Shrewsbury Market Hall is raising funds for victims of the Nepal quakes by holding workshops in the art of felt-making. Teresa Tant, who runs Colour4Felts, is offering mini felt ball sessions for members of the public in exchange for donations to her appeal. She is raising funds for her felt suppliers and…

Shrewsbury’s green-fingered residents are invited to attend a behind the scenes tour of the Town Council’s greenhouse. The site, at Weeping Cross, is where more than 300,000 blooms are cultivated each year for the town’s award-winning floral displays. Following on from Shrewsbury’s success as RHS Champion of Champions in last year’s Britain in Bloom competition,…