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  • Discarded cigarette causes Oswestry bin fire

    A DISCARDED cigarette was the cause of a fire service callout in Oswestry on Sunday afternoon. At 1.08pm on Sunday, September 13 firefighters received a call of a bin fire in Oswestry. One crew was mobilised from Oswestry, with buckets of water

  • Oswestry Powis Market Hall designer dies aged 88

    THE designer of Oswestry's revamped market hall, Sir Terence Conran has died aged 88. Sir Conran helped draw up plans to revamp the Powis Market Hall in 2009, with funding being found and the construction getting underway in 2011. The design

  • A taste of Italy in Oswestry...

    Name: Amanda and Jonathan Roberts Business name: Milano’s Cafe, Old Chapel Court, Oswestry Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 9.30am-4pm When did you open your business and why? The business started in 2002 and was first an Italian-themed

  • Bygones: And another trip Memory Lane for Tizer readers

    And onto your second page of Bygones for this week and we’re staying in the early 1980s. On the top left of the page, we have a man plucking up the courage to dive into the mere in Ellesmere – do you recognise him? Staying in Ellesmere, on

  • Fish out of, well not quite water, tale is great

    The latest from Oswestry Film Society... We’re in a pickle this week, an ‘American Pickle’, screening at Kinokulture this Friday and Saturday night. This has generally good reviews and puts a new spin on a ‘fish out of water’ story, although