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by Rebecca Dutton
Well this certainly looks like a night we don’t want to miss out on! The hit show The Full Monty is coming to Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn in February 2017 but tickets are already on sale from today (May 31st) and look like they will sell out quickly. The ‘revealing’ hit stage show is based on the 1997 British film about six […]
by Rhea Alton
Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Shrewsbury this Sunday (May 29) for the return of a major cycle event. Excitement has been building all week ahead of the 2016 Shrewsbury Cycle Grand Prix with more than 250 riders – some as young as eight – signed up to take part in the race action. Race organiser […]
by Kirsty Smallman
Next month’s Staffordshire County Show is proving to be a record breaker even before it opens. Organisers of the event at the Staffordshire County Showground, sponsored by South Staffordshire College, have reported record breaking levels of entries for livestock. Competitors for Boer goats have even boomed three fold after the category was introduced for the first time last year. Richard […]
by Rhea Alton
As soon as I saw The Mousetrap was coming to Theatre Severn I knew I had to see it. Famous around the world for being the longest running show of any kind in the history of British theatre – clocking up nearly 25,000 performances – and it was heading to my home town! The Mousetrap is doing its first ever […]
by Simon Alton
Visitors to this year’s Shropshire County Show will have their eyes to the skies to catch a glimpse of a very special moment – a flypast from a Lancaster Bomber. The iconic aeroplane will fly over the West Mid Showground in Shrewsbury on Saturday 28 May, and organisers say it is the “icing on the cake” for what they hope […]
by Dani Wozencroft
You don’t get the usual buzz of going to the theatre when it’s a matinee performance and you’re effectively watching a DVD. As I sat down to watch The Railway Children at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, the first thing that struck me was the lack of atmosphere – it was a big screen, not a stage, and no one clapped or […]
by Rebecca Dutton
As a child, my father often used to read be the Tales of Arabian Nights. I loved the idea of a story in a story in a story. Now Shifting Sands Theatre is re-telling the Arabian Nights tales with a comic twist at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn on May 5 at 8pm. The company has developed a reputation for creating a […]
by Rhea Alton
A Shropshire hotel is to host its first mother and baby show with dozens of stalls available to help and provide for families from bump to five-years-old. The Wroxeter Hotel, near Shrewsbury, is holding the event on April 10 from 12 to 3pm to showcase the huge number of businesses in Shropshire which provide just what parents and parents-to-be need […]
by Dani Wozencroft
As well as working at J&PR I also work at a college teaching journalism, so the school holidays are always a chance for me to catch up with clients I haven’t seen in a while or get ahead on some of my accounts. I often forget it’s also a chance for a holiday – but this Easter I thought I’d […]
by Rebecca Dutton
We’re off to see the wizard…the wonderful wizard of Oz! And Sooty and friends are coming too! Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury has a real treat for children this Easter with The Wizard of Oz, starring Sooty, Sweep and Soo as well as Richard Cadell from CITV’s The Sooty Show. In Shrewsbury for one day only, April 7, I couldn’t help […]