Maesbury

A FORMER village primary school could soon be on the market, the Advertizer has learned. Shropshire Council intends to request a Disposal of Land order from the government's Education Funding Agency for the vacant Maesbury Primary School and others ...

A WOMAN is desperately trying to find 18 horses after they went missing from Lower Thrupe Farm near Maesbury. Lucy Parfiit is appealing for any information after her family's herd were taken from a field. Ranging from young foals to older mares and ...

A stretch of canal that has been cut off because of a leak further down is still open for boat rides, thanks to Cracker the horse. Canal boat owner Tim Barker with Cracker. Horse-drawn boat rides have been running at Maesbury, near Oswestry, for the ...

A PEST controller from Maesbury has beaten odds of one in 100,000 by catching a rare albino mole. Raymond Griffiths who runs his own pest control business snared the unusual creature while working at a house in the Nesscliffe area last week. Mr ...

The closure of Lindstrand Hot Air Balloons, in Maesbury Road, will see 19 workers made redundant. Founder Per Lindstrand, who currently runs nearby business Lindstrand Technologies which is unaffected by the closure, today called the move “sad”.

A historic canal wharf, smelting house and bone manure works at Maesbury Marsh, near Oswestry, are to be the focus for a Canal & River Trust 'Time Team'-style archaeological dig. Working with specialists from Nexus Heritage, the Trust is hoping to ...