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  1. On now to 1 Nov The Pikachu Art Adventure Attingham Park
  2. Tue 6 Oct Joe Calzaghe 7.45pm · Theatre Severn · From £41.25
  3. 8 to 17 Oct Blackadder Goes Forth Theatre on the Steps · From £12.50
  4. Fri 9 Oct Tom McRae 7.30pm · Ludlow Assembly Rooms
  5. Sat 10 Oct Made in Shropshire Artisan Fair, Shrewsbury 9am · The Square

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Christmas Shropshire Santa Trains and Grottos 2026: Dates, Prices The Elf Express leaves Bridgnorth from 28 November, from £164 a compartment. Park Hall Farm's Santa starts at £14.95 an adult. Dates and prices for four venues. · 5 min read Attingham Park Attingham Park Christmas: Trail and Festive Days From 28 Nov Attingham for Christmas and a family trail run 28 November to 3 January. The mansion is shut 2 to 27 November; the park is open 8am to 5pm daily. · 5 min read Events What's On in Shropshire: Tim Peake, Three Firework Nights Tim Peake at Theatre Severn on 10 October, fireworks in Craven Arms on the 24th, then Shrewsbury and Whitchurch on 7 November, and Walcot Hall's trails. · 11 min read Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Food Hub Wins £60,000 Council Grant to 2029 Shrewsbury Food Hub gets £20,000 a year to 2029 from the town council's cost of living fund to open more Foodshares. When and where all 13 run now. · 4 min read Local Info Shropshire Roadworks This Week: A458 Shut Four Nights The A458 from Shrewsbury to Wales shuts four nights, 5 to 8 October, and the A5 bypass westbound on the 5th. Castle Foregate and Raven Meadows dates too. · 15 min read Shrewsbury Emstrey Bank and Norton Crossroads Speed Limits Set to Fall 40mph and 50mph limits are proposed for two roads east of Shrewsbury, where 11 injury crashes since 2021 killed one rider. Comment 1 to 22 October. · 4 min read Shrewsbury Meole Brace Park and Ride to Keep Running After 1 November Shropshire Council has found parking income to keep the Meole Brace bus running past 1 November. No end date is set; Bowbrook is floated as a long-term site. · 5 min read Shrewsbury 570 Homes at Shrewsbury Battlefield Withdrawn by Developer Oakland Farming pulled its 570-home Battlefield scheme on 23 September, five days after National Highways' third holding notice. 34 objected, none backed it. · 11 min read Shropshire Council Shropshire Councillor Allowances Frozen at £14,839, Five Cut The independent panel says £14,839 is already top quartile. Scrutiny and planning chairs lose £3,710 each, and the automatic annual rise is scrapped. · 8 min read Albrighton Albrighton 800 Homes: Secretary of State Takes the Appeal The Secretary of State will decide the 800-home Albrighton green belt appeal herself, not the inspector. The inquiry sits this week; comments close 9 October. · 9 min read Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Soup Maker Wins £40,000 Dragons' Den Deal Soul Kitchen's Bella Acland asked for £40,000 and four Dragons said no. Susie Ma then offered the lot for 15 per cent, on BBC One on Thursday night. · 6 min read Shropshire Shropshire Fire: 1 of 5 Closed, Cause for Concern Stays Inspectors have closed one of five recommendations after a July revisit, and four stay open. The service's own papers show 4 of 30 improvements finished. · 9 min read
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Shropshire is a county-sized council with market towns scattered across it and fifty miles between some of them. Shrewsbury sits inside its loop of the Severn and is the county town. Oswestry is up on the Welsh border, Ludlow and Church Stretton are south under the hills, and Bridgnorth, Market Drayton and Whitchurch are east and north.

Shropshire Today reports what the record shows across all of it. One boundary is worth stating at the top: Telford and Wrekin is a separate unitary authority, so nothing here about bins, planning or council tax applies in Telford. Shropshire Council has been the sole authority for the rest since 2009, and it publishes the evidence for its decisions where hardly anybody reads it. We read it and write it up, with a link to the document every time.

The lay of the land

Every fact carries a link to its official source.

Three numbers worth knowing before you read anything else about Shropshire. The middle home sold here over the last year cost £268,000, and Oswestry and Church Stretton are £145,000 apart. The fastest train from Shrewsbury to London takes 2 hours 34 minutes and there is no direct service at all. And the council can demonstrate 4.61 years of housing land where national policy asks for five, which is why so much is being approved on the edge of the towns.