February 2008 Issue

Halcyon days at the poolside

Mark Sisson follows a flash of blue on the county’s waterways and finds an adaptable and extremely beautiful bird

The property debate: How will the dice roll?

A downturn in the property market has been threatening to burst onto the front pages for the last few years, and it has now done so. But how real is this so-called crisis? We asked four county experts . . .

The tiger who couldn’t be chained

Shropshire will never see another Jimmy James, who passed away on January 18 this year at the age of 92. Warm, private and self-effacing, he was a hero in every sense and the perfect subject to start a series looking at some of the county’s war veterans and the part they played in the conflict

Perfection in the pipeline

It lay locked up and left to decay for three decades, but now it is one of the shining lights of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. Shirley Tart tells the remarkable story of the Broseley Pipe Museum