Browsing 'Celebrate Oswestry'
Shock! Oswestry bathed in sun! What did you do?
We know the election candidates and their leaf-letting teams were grateful. Quick, before you forget it happened - tell us where you go when the sun shines on Oswestry. ...
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Business Club Awards 2103
There were nine listed categories at the second Oswestry and Chronicle Business Club Awards with the 2013 winners receiving their awards at a hugely popular dinner attended by well over 200 at the Lion Quays on Wed 1st May. When Chronicle editor Graham Breeze made an additional personal award to Martin Anderson, the chair of the Chamber of Commerce from 2011 ...
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Art house cinemas are profitable and desirable
As today's news points out art house cinemas that specialise in independent and foreign produced films are very profitable.  Cineworld the company that is about to develop the mutliplex on the Smithfield site have just acquired Picturehouse for £47 Million.  This deal has been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission because it may mean higher ti ...
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A game for all seasons?
To win the Welsh Football Premiership is no mean achievement and The New Saints have done it again for the second year in succession. This will secure Champions League international football here in Oswestry this summer.
However, they lost out in the Welsh FA Cup Semi Final to premiership arch rivals Bangor City who scored a last gasp goal in injury time ...
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It makes a difference
It makes a difference from Noise on Vimeo.
It's almost three years since we interviewed Mo Battam in his Beatrice Street shop. Now the horsemeat scandal has highlighted practices in supermarket supply chains, the value of this local butcher's care and passion for his trade looks, if anything, even more obvious.
More interviews with local shopkeeper ...
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J is for ‘Just what Oswestry needs’
As easy as A, B, C. Youngsters are also having their say in an Alphabet for Oswestry
From the Old Racecourse looking south-east across the Shropshire Plain and west to Rhydycroesau. From Selattyn over to Frankton Brow, from Moelydd Hill south to the Tanat Valley, from Old Oswestry hill fort to Brogyntyn.
V is for the views that reward a drive, walk o ...
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Incredible Edible
With so much interest in the first Incredible Edible Oswestry meeting held on 4th March, it would be helpful if people, especially those not at the meeting, could respond so that we build momentum in the town,especially as Spring should be here soon.
- Do you have any expertise to contribute/share (e.g. gardening skills, design etc)? – if so, let us know ...
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Incredible Edible Oswestry
The idea of Greening up by Growing in Oswestry is clearly seen as a good idea as it attracted over 50 people to a first meeting held in the Cornerstone Baptist Church, Lower Brook St on March 4th.
The concept of turning usable spaces in towns into vegetable patches and other exciting ideas took off in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and there was an inspiratio ...
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Cambrian Christmas No Turkey
In mid-December 2012, the Executive of Cambrian Heritage Railways (CHR) thanked the Town Council for including the illuminated train with ‘moving wheels and steam’ in the new Christmas lights and siting it close to the Station Yard on Oswald’s Road.
That was before it became apparent that the Railway was in for a bumper  number of visitors for it ...
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Market of the year
Oswestry’s indoor market has won a ‘Market of the Year’ award.
It rewards the commitment shown by the town council and its market manager, David Clough.
The market is part of the fabric of Oswestry. It’s a friendly and lively place, and it would be hard to imagine the town without it.
Oswestry entered, and won, the 'best local council market ...
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The National Theatre reaches Oswestry
Last night kinokulture cinema at The Attfield Theatre pushed Oswestry onto the greater cultural map of the UK, with the first live broadcast from the National Theatre in London - and in doing so made a huge contribution to Oswestry's cultural offer.
This first kinokulture screening from National Theatre Live was The Magistrate by Arthur Wing Pinero. A ve ...
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Tizer scoop……………..
Seems the OS21 investigative team has been scooped this week by a news hungry 'Tizer................... ...
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Goodbye to all that . . .
(Photo: Geoff Charles)
What happens in Oswestry in 2013 will hopefully be shaped by the entrepreneurial actions of its people, more than by anything else. In this sense, our future is largely unknowable. But, in 2012, Oswestry21.com held up Booka as an exemplary retail business.
There are other good businesses, in the town centre and the industrial est ...
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Happy Christmas from OS21!
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Oswestry’s ‘Project Group’ launches new products.
The Project Group, Oswestry’s award winning creative social enterprise, has launched a range of retail products under the banner ‘Designs in Mind’.  The group had been invited to take part in the Eureka Project, a ‘Design Nation’ initiative that encourages British manufacturers and retailers to commission British designs.
To start this project ...
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The last parade
By Giuliana
The letter would arrive in September:Â would we take part in the Christmas Parade?
A notice board would be freed from other displays, re-pinned with the letter and two large blank posters with the headings: Who is interested in taking part? What should this year's theme be?
Not much response for ages. Youth, at the end of the Summer ...
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Friendlier towns and cities v the scourge of the A-board
Much has been made of empty high streets and the degradation of town centres. The discussion is focused on empty shops and the impact on the local economy. If the high street looks empty what message does this give to shoppers and visitors? What of remaining shops?
Yet something had been overlooked. What h ...
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Apple day in Oswestry
Saturday was Oswestry’s first apple day. Stalls, shops and businesses made special apple themed products and displays. In the evening, the Bailey Head hosted open air cinema from Kinokulture, and a performance of Neil Phillips’ Supermarket song sequence. A great day for traditional varieties. ...
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Plas Wilmot’s listed status – a game-changer for Oswestry
 (Photo: Dogfael. Some rights reserved)
Plas Wilmot, Wilfred Owen’s childhood home, has been granted grade II listed status.
This is potentially a game changing development for Oswestry. The English Heritage report endorses it as the most important site associated with the great war poet, and of national and international signifi ...
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Oswestry’s state of appleness!
Apple images are springing up in shops, cafes and businesses around town as Oswestry gets ready for its first small, but perfectly formed, Apple Day on October 20.
A section of the Bailey Head market will be dedicated to all things apple, from apple fairytales and apple pies to apple juicing and local apple growing which has seen the creation of Oswestryâ ...
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