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!

The agonising wait for GCSE results

14 Aug 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Adam Philpott, 16-years-old from Shrewsbury Every student’s nightmare: results day, or as some say, judgment day. The day can go one of two ways, either disastrously wrong or brilliantly well. Hopefully it’s the latter. Until recently, I have been enjoying my extended summer break, free from school-related stress. But with results day imminent, I have been reintroduced to the […]

Hitting the road on two wheels to fight pancreatic cancer

13 Aug 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Maria Wilkinson In June this year, we lost a much-loved family member to the ‘silent killer’ that is pancreatic cancer. Christine Goodwin was my husband’s aunt. You often hear the term ‘full of life’ used for people and in Christine’s case it really was true. She was an absolutely lovely lady and she is dearly missed. Despite it apparently […]

The finances of a student

05 Aug 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Matthew Bullin One of the hottest topics of debate in the media currently is the tuition fees that students have to pay to their universities. At £9,000 a year (plus living costs) it is an outrageously expensive endeavour for anyone who wants to gain a degree in this day and age. As a student myself having just completed my […]

Smile Like the Queen

03 Aug 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

Guest blog by Perfect Profiles A couple of months ago The Oscars Selfie went viral with the star studded picture of Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and other Hollywood celebrities being forwarded more than two million times on Twitter. Now it seems the Queen is getting in on the act after she ‘photobombed’ the Australian hockey teams selfie at the Commonwealth […]

Glasgow 2014 to take gold?

31 Jul 2014

by Rebecca Dutton

By Matthew Bullin It has been widely documented that London 2012 was a little bit of a success. A reason to be optimistic and happy, as the country revelled in the popularity of the Olympic Games on a worldwide level, as well as the extraordinary achievements of the GB athletes, most of which emerged from obscurity to become household names. […]

Muuuum, the sun’s on me…

19 Jul 2014

by Rhea Alton

With the Summer holidays here, thousands of us will be loading up the car and hitting the roads to head to our holiday destinations. If you are like me and the back seat will be filled with the sounds of bored children I bet you already have a list as long as your arm of things that need to be […]

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 […]