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by Rhea Alton
Staff at a Shropshire nursery are to undergo maths training to help them deliver fun and engaging sessions to children ahead of them starting school. All 60 employees at the ABC Day Nursery chain in Telford have already undergone specialist training in letters and sounds. The maths training will be conducted by Adele Conlon, owner of Shropshire Tutor, which already […]
by Rhea Alton
A Shropshire businesswoman is supporting a junior football team’s bid for victory after becoming an official sponsor. Adele Conlon, owner of family-run Shropshire Tutor, has become the latest sponsor of Wrockwardine Wood Football Club, in Telford. Miss Conlon, who provides both private and class-based educational services to children under the age of 11 in English and maths, has provided the […]
by Dani Wozencroft
To be in a musical you have to be a fantastic actor and an excellent singer. But to be in Avenue Q you also have to be a brilliant puppeteer. And the whole cast at Theatre Severn last night were all three. I kept wondering whether I should be looking at the humans or the puppets – truth is, it […]
by Rhea Alton
A charity which supports families affected by the same genetic disease which claimed the life of late fundraiser Stephen Sutton has received a welcome boost thanks to a Shropshire-based IT firm. Staff at Network Support Solutions (NSS) based at Shrewsbury Business Park began collecting their loose change 12 months ago in support of Lynch Syndrome UK (LSUK). Lynch Syndrome is […]
by Rebecca Dutton
Now I may be the only mother in the whole world (slight exaggeration perhaps) who can honestly say I have hardly ever watched Peppa Pig. That’s not because I don’t sit with my nearly four-year-old when he does watch television but just because he is into other things – mainly dinosaur related (yes I know George has a dinosaur),  Paw […]
by Rebecca Dutton
I’ve always been a closet Abba fan and I think if I’d be a teenager in the 1970s, I would have been completely obsessed with them. As it was, I was a late 1990s teenager so an eclectic mix of Alanis Morissette, Eternal and Boyzone ruled the day. I would love to have seen Abba on tour but the group […]
by Rhea Alton
More and more patients are having their prescriptions delivered to home, according to a Shropshire pharmacy which has seen its delivery figures reach a record high. Lunts Pharmacies, which has two pharmacies in Shrewsbury, has been providing a prescription delivery service to residents living within the town for more than 20 years. But, in recent months the family – operated […]
by Rhea Alton
Children as young as three are getting to grips with their ABCs thanks to the help of a family-run tutoring business. Adele Conlon, owner of Telford-based Shropshire Tutor, began working with nursery children three years ago delivering her Little Learner programmes in English and Maths. But the sessions have become so successful and popular that she now runs the sessions […]
by Rhea Alton
Shropshire businesses are urged to take action and protect their websites against increasing cyber attacks. The advice comes after HSBC bank defended a potential attack on Friday (Jan 29) and as software experts suggest attacks, which can bring down entire websites, were getting bigger and more sophisticated. Katy Jones, managing director of Shrewsbury-based IT company Network Support Solutions, said the […]
by Dani Wozencroft
An established care company in Telford has left the franchise group it launched under and will invest £250,000 in improving services and expanding across Shropshire. Steve Harris set up Carewatch (Mid Shropshire and South West Staffordshire) 16 years ago but this week he has bought out the franchise and will run his Stafford Park-based firm as a standalone company, Sentinel […]