May 2008 Issue

Back from the brink

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The tenacity and instinct for survival shown by prisoners in the most notorious concentration camp of World War II went far beyond heroism. But Ben Bentley still finds warmth, humour and humility in the person of Charlie Evans, one of our last living Auschwitz survivors

Water, water everywhere

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Keith Noble gains much of the inspiration for his paintings from the glorious south Shropshire setting that is his home and workplace. Shirley Tart catches up with him – eventually

A brief history of time

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Ken Tudor salutes a new book by a Shropshire academic, in which she has combined her formidable skills as a local historian with her gardening expertise

Inn a state of grace

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Henry Carpenter enjoys a meal a deux in the north Shropshire village of Grinshill

Living off the land

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Headlines have been screaming out for some time that little else but doom and gloom surrounds the property market. While no one would deny that the industry is suffering to a greater or lesser degree, some areas of the wider property market are more than holding their own, not least land and agriculture Henry Carpenter investigates

In May’s Midlands Magazine of the Year

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Back issues
Magazine cover: May 1958
50 years ago
Elizabeth Pearson, in a piece entitled ‘How Children Amused Themselves Before Television’ was bemoaning the fact that, where once the difficulty was in getting children in for bed at a reasonable hour, they now need much persuasion to take sufficient exercise. Some things never change!
40 years ago
“Could Shropshire change […]