With the launch of the 2025 National Poppy Appeal just weeks away, a special afternoon was held recently to honour the collectors who support the annual Clun Valley’s Poppy Appeal. Organised by the Royal British Legion Clun Branch, the Awards Ceremony brought long-standing volunteers together...
Summer is fast drawing to an end, and the holiday atmosphere will soon be lost to the fast-approaching Christmas festivities. I gather some supermarkets have Christmas stocking fillers on display already!I was talking to the Lord-Lieutenant in Cornwall a few weeks ago and he told...
His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Anna Turner last week visited Fabweld Steel Products Ltd and was delighted to present them with their King’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development.The Kings’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious business awards in the country, with winning businesses...
Earlier this month the Lord-Lieutenant of shropshire, Anna Turner was delighted to launch the Stiperstones Landscape National Nature Reserve (NNR). The NNR brings together a partnership of six landowning organisations, including Natural England, Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Shropshire Council, Linley Estate, Forestry England and Middle Marches Community...
The Three Choirs Festival, revered as one of the oldest classical music gatherings in the world, made a triumphant return to Hereford Cathedral at the end of July. Mrs Katherine Garnier DL, represented Shropshire at the Opening Service, attending on behalf of Mrs Anna Turner, the...
VJ Day marks the anniversary of 15 August 1945 when Japan announced its surrender to the Allied forces. The surrender was met with relief and celebration that after six long years the Second World War was finally over. While millions took part in parades and street parties,...
Last Saturday, the Lord-Lieutenant was delighted to be asked to open a new exhibition in the Rose Paterson Art Gallery at Weston Park called the Green World of Brown. The exhibition, which focuses on the genius of the eighteenth century landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown,...
The Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Jenny Wynn, OBE DL was delighted to represent the Shropshire Lieutenancy at the opening of the Yellow Ribbon Community Chaplaincy’s Joy Pavilion at Halfway House on the Wrekin.For more than a decade the Yellow Ribbon Community Chaplaincy has continuously...
It was with great pleasure that His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner, welcomed the Dean of Hereford, the Very Rev’d Sarah Brown to the county. Together they visited several churches in the Shropshire region of the Diocese of Hereford to witness firsthand the...
I was talking to the Lord-Lieutenant in Cornwall last week and he told me their average rainfall is 1200mm, then I spoke to a friend in Cumbria and she said theirs is 1482mm and so I then began to feel blessed that in Shropshire we...
