Lifestyle and Community Features
For many needlework is something of a lost art, an old fashioned skill forgotten over time, but a shop in Radbrook is seeing a new surge of interest in knitting, sewing and crocheting – with young people in particular eager to take up their knitting needles.
A small and dedicated committee are busy preparing for this year’s popular Shrewsbury Carnival, and with just five weeks to go the organisers are on the lookout for as many people to come and support the event as possible.
Since 1971, the proportion of people living in ‘traditional’ family households of married couples with dependent children has fallen from 52 per cent to 37 per cent.
One of the last bastions of the old all-male establishment has made the move into the 21st century.
The year 1961 saw the Russians put the first man in space, the Beatles first appeared at the Cavern Club – and Shrewsbury Technical College open a brand new campus on London Road.
There are 12 churches in the Shrewsbury area which have signed up to a special tourism group set up to make the most out of what our churches have to offer.
Hospital admissions show cases of self-harming are steadily rising, with anonymous surveys suggesting that 10 per cent of all youngsters have tried to hurt themselves at some point.
Up to 200 people are said to pass through the doors of Café Connect in Radbrook Green on a daily basis.
When seven-year-old Brandon Collier, of Coton Hill, was diagnosed with autism he hadn’t reached his third birthday.