What's happening?

Shouting about things is our bag, so this is where you can find what our clients have been up to, what's happening in our beautiful county of Shropshire, Team J&PR updates - and, of course, our PR and social media advice and tips!

Ditch that Scratch

25 Jun 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

Guest blog by Ace Car Care Has your car ever been scratched by a horse biting it? No..? Admittedly, that’s quite an unusual one, but you would be amazed at some of the stories behind the various scratches we see at Ace Car Care. It’s fair to say that scratches are one of the most common ways of damaging a […]

Keeping it local in Shropshire

05 Jun 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Rebecca Dutton At J&PR, we love local companies and support anything that keeps business in our county and helps our immediate economy. That’s why we are so impressed with Shrewsbury-based Ace Car Care’s new initiative to help county firms network and generate more business. The company has unveiled a ‘keep it local’ board, which displays the business cards of […]

Time for a Jolly Good Bike Ride

05 Jun 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Lorna McCann Cycling has gone a bit mad here in Shropshire. A couple of weeks ago former British cycling champion Chris Boardman MBE rode into town and on Sunday past (May 25) Olympic gold medalist Joanna Rowsell MBE took part in the hugely successful Shrewsbury Cycle Grand Prix along with 130 or so amateur and professional cyclists from across […]

A night at the opera proves a laugh out loud event

03 Jun 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Rhea Alton For many the Marriage of Figaro is the greatest opera ever written…or so the internet tells me. Mozart wrote it when he was 29 years old, an opera that uses comedy and pathos to highlight aristocratic power – a hot topic on the eve of the French revolution. For me The Marriage of Figaro was my first […]

Shout a little louder

10 May 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

Guest blog by Richard Buckle, director of Wellmeadow Consulting. Very soon Shropshire will have a new university. In fact, by September 2015 it will start accepting undergraduate students which means a few years after that there will be the first wave of graduates from the University of Chester Shrewsbury Institute. It does then seem like the perfect time for businesses […]

Three months on…and it feels like home

07 May 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

Guest blog by Pam Williams, of Ace Car Care. So three months ago we packed up, shipped out, and whipped round the corner to brand new premises on Shrewsbury’s Battlefield Industrial Estate. The site had undergone almost £100,000 refit and we have spent the quarter making it feel a bit more like home. With premises four times bigger than the […]

The number of people booking weight loss surgery in Shropshire & Telford has more than trebled

28 Apr 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

The number of people having weight loss surgery in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin has more than trebled in the last year, new figures have revealed. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has said 26 patients booked to have weight loss surgery, otherwise known as bariatric surgery, in the county in the first two months of this year – compared […]

Graduates should think Shropshire before heading for the bright lights!

07 Apr 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

From Wellmeadow Consulting Shropshire is a wonderful place to live and work and there are some great businesses based here doing lots of great innovative things. So why is it so hard to attract graduates? We have many aspiring youngsters here in Shropshire who are getting a fantastic education at one of the county’s many excellent schools. But soon they […]

Peppa had a splashing time at Theatre Severn… and the two boys did too.

20 Mar 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Kirsty Smallman Being a mother to a four-year-old and a two-year-old my husband and I can’t pass any Peppa Pig toys or promotional material without an “I want” from one of them. So when producers of Peppa Pig’s Big Splash live show announced it was arriving at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn I knew it was a show I would not […]

Living moo-free – a diagnosis that changed all of our lives.

14 Mar 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Lorna McCann I have hayfever and I’m allergic to cats but that’s as far as it goes really. So, when we discovered my youngest little boy was allergic to cow’s milk it was a life changing moment for us all. Finn was three months old at the time and he was breastfed but he was a difficult feeder – […]