Tourism News & Updates
- 9th October 2012
Can you help and donate a decorated Christmas Tree? St Andrew's Parish Church are asking local businesses and organisations to support the 9th Annual Christmas Festival of Trees.
- 8th October 2012
People are always moaning these days about how run-down both Heanor and Ripley are looking, but one project is aiming to change all that, one small step at a time...
- 8th October 2012
Organisers of Shrewsbury’s Christmas Cracker event are calling for private sponsors to help the community event go with a bang.
- 8th October 2012
A replica build of one of the oldest places of Christian worship in Britain has been created - one fifth the size of the original and made entirely from straw bales. The unusual structure of Lichfield Cathedral was the brain child of local man Rob Gray, who runs a 2000 acre arable farm in Whittington.
- 8th October 2012
Shrewsbury and Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski has welcomed the announcement that the town is to receive almost £10million of funding to undertake vital road improvements.
- 8th October 2012
Visitors to the final day of the hugely successful West Midlands Caravan and Motorhome Show in Shrewsbury got a chance to meet and congratulate Paralympian gold medal winning archer Danielle Brown from Telford.
- 28th September 2012
There were celebrations this week in Ripley as one of our most famous residents, Sir Barnes Wallis was remembered by the community.
- 25th September 2012
Caravanners will get their first glimpse of the range of new holiday homes, touring caravans and motorhomes for 2013 at a major show in Shropshire later this month.
- 24th September 2012
David Cameron has talked about the “Big Society” needing to fill the social care void created by reduced public spending
- 23rd September 2012
Looking for something to do with the family this half term and Halowe'en? Why not get involved in the Spooktacular Sponsored Stroll taking place at Chatsworth House, in aid of Cancer Research UK.