It’s guaranteed to make you Happy! A Shropshire sports coaching company is hoping their new music video, featuring youngsters from across the county, will go viral and raise funds for charity. Staff from Crossbar Coaching Education in Sport together with pupils from two county primary schools, Greenfields in Shrewsbury and Lawley in Telford, have joined […]
Indian Test star Wasim Jaffer illuminated Shropshire’s annual ResourceBank Challenge match by hitting a brilliant century.Jaffer, one of the star names on parade at Wrekin College, inspired an Invitational XI to a 71 run victory over Shropshire in a match which saw both sides have two innings of 20 overs each.Nearly 700 people watched the […]
A historic former Shropshire college site, put up for sale, is being marketed by leading county chartered surveyors Towler Shaw Roberts. The old Radbrook College campus in Shrewsbury – once part of Shrewsbury College – benefits from a Shropshire Council resolution to grant outline planning permission for residential development. The site in Radbrook Road occupies […]
Hundreds of Shropshire school children have enjoyed the thrill of playing in exciting five-a-side football tournaments against youngsters from across the county thanks to Crossbar Coaching Education in Sport. The company formed six years ago by director Gavin Cowan, a former Shrewsbury Town and AFC Telford United player, has developed an impressive reputation delivering sport […]
Attingham Park will be serving up a treat when it hosts Tennis in the Park at the end of the month – an opportunity for Tennis Shropshire to showcase the sport and invite people of all ages to pick up a racket. The fun event takes place at picturesque Attingham, near Shrewsbury, on Sunday, May […]
A bumper crowd were treated to a real run feast with 436 runs plundered in just 40 overs as first-class neighbours Worcestershire Rapids overcame Shropshire in an exciting Twenty20 clash at Bridgnorth. The Pears, for whom skipper Daryl Mitchell just ran out of time to reach three figures, eventually emerged as 36 run victors at […]
The waiting is nearly over with Shropshire skipper James Ralph looking forward to being reunited with several familiar faces when the county host Worcestershire Rapids in an attractive Twenty20 challenge match tomorrow night (Wednesday). Five Shropshire old boys are now part of the Worcestershire squad in the first division of the County Championship and four of […]
An all-star cast of former Shrewsbury Town players attracted a bumper crowd to the Shrewsbury Sports Village for a special fundraising match in aid of The Harry Johnson Trust. A crowd of more than 1,500 flocked to the Sundorne venue to watch some of the club’s finest players of recent times pull on blue and […]
Where do you start? Well, I guess the beginning is as good a place as any. I first met Colin Bloomfield in the old Press Box at the back of the Centre Stand at the Gay Meadow. His dad, Lawrie, the man at the helm when BBC Radio Shropshire was launched 30 years ago, had […]
Shrewsbury Town’s promotion-hungry footballers savoured a tasty treat after training earlier this week – thanks to the son of a club legend. Ryan King, whose father is former Town defender and manager Jake King, keeps close tabs on Shrewsbury’s fortunes and runs Shropshire’s first American Smokehouse – Smoke Stop. The road to BBQ – at Ford, […]