April 2010 Issue

A frosty reception for the jolly green giant

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Ben Bentley goes in search of the people’s protector in Clun

Hope springs eternal

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Neil Thomas looks at the ever-expanding role of Hope House as it marks the 15th anniversary of its opening with some ambitious plans to further develop its services

On your bike, Andy . . .

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Andy Richardson is off on an epic cycle ride to help raise funds for Hope House. Support him here!

A picture of proficiency

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Neil Thomas heads to the east of the county, to Raphael’s restaurant in Shifnal.

Doing poetic justice to an adventure in verse

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Shirley Tart hears how an important new literary festival came about

Johnny and the pirates

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In which Vanessa bemoans the decline of the modern-day matinee idol . . .

In the print version of April’s issue . . .

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Cover: April 1960.
50 years ago
John Borderer offered his ‘Recollections of a Shropshire dialect’, and how it had changed over his quarter century in the county.
When he first arrived, “one commonly heard the expressions ‘dunna’, ‘munna’, ‘cunna’ and ‘inna’ but, doubtless owing to the standardising influence of radio and television, they are rarely heard today.
“Some of […]