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As usual the Rotary Club of Oswestry and Cambrian will be bringing Santa and his Sleigh to Oswestry this year. It all starts with the main Lights switch on (Thursday 19th November), and continues via appearances at Morrisons, Whittington Fete, Stans, Gobowen Cross Foxes, The Cross in Oswestry, and Sainsbury's (time table to follow).

We are desperately in need of Volunteers to help us - we specifically need people who could be Santa for about two hours. The role involves sitting in the sleigh waving at the children and having your picture taken. We supply Santa suits, hats and beards!

In the past we have taken Santa around the streets of Oswestry, but again, we don't have the resources to do that this year, unless we can get volunteers from Oswestry to help us out.

Please contact oscambrianpresident@gmail.com if you would like to help us out either as Santa, or to help put on a travelling Santa.

This year we are raising money for PCAS (an independent advocacy charity), MusicMOB (providing musical tuition for local primary school children), Oswestry and Borders Foodbank and Friends of Parkies.

Spare apples into juice for the winter

Dear Blogger

Message from Ingrid Knowles, Oswestry net

Don`t thow apples in the two Ruyton orchards in the river, collect them and get them turned into apple juice to last the winter.

Hello there,

If you don't know what to do with your spare apples please contact me BEFORE Thursday 5th November.

We can use them to press and bag&box them. This way the juice will last for many months.

Ideally the apples are unblemished but we can take them also if they are bruised but not rotten.

Either you deliver them to The Factory in Coney Green SY11 2JL or we can collect them from you.

Please email iaknowles@gmail.com if you have any apples available so that we can arrange dropping off or collection.

Many thanks.

Best wishes

Ingrid

Friday, 30 October 2026

Wilfred Owen Festival - Oswestry`s First World War Poet

Dear Blogger

Message from Chris Woods

WILFRED OWEN FESTIVAL, Oswestry`s 1ST WORLD WAR POET

Why not get involved in this special event - contact Chris Woods, Festival Organiser

Survey supporting local bus services due to be re-tendered in 20217

Dear Blogger

Message from iknowles@oswestryrural-pc.gov.uk

Survey Supported local bus services due to be re-tendered in 2027

Good afternoon,

Shropshire Council's survey seeking views on supported local bus services due to be retendered in 2027 is now live.

We want to understand what people value about these services, what they feel is not working well, and what improvements or changes they would like to be considered. This survey is about listening, gathering evidence and understanding local needs before we prepare tender documents for bus operators – no decisions have been made about potential changes to these services at this stage.

The services included in the survey are:

Oswestry Town Services – 400, 402, 403 and 404
Oswestry School Service – 405
Oswestry Town Service – 406
Knighton to Ludlow – 738 and 740
Oswestry to Baschurch to Shrewsbury – 576
Shrewsbury Town Service (Shrewsbury Bus Station to Reabrook) – 21
Whitchurch Town Service – 205
Four Crosses to Oswestry – 71
Cefn-Y-Blodwel to Oswestry – 54

We would be grateful if you could please help to spread the word about the survey with residents and any relevant community networks that you are connected to.

Even if none of the services listed operate directly within your area, we would still appreciate your support in sharing the survey more widely, as residents, along with their family and/or friends, may use these services to travel elsewhere in Shropshire.

Please find attached a promotional poster, which you are welcome to circulate electronically. We also have a limited number of printed A3 posters, suitable for local noticeboards and other key locations.

Full details can be found at the Shropshire Council website and the survey is open for comment until Friday 11 December 2026.

Thank you very much for your support in raising awareness of the survey and encouraging residents to have their say.

Kind regards

Public Transport Team

Passenger Transport Group

People Directorate

For anyone interested in Local History - talk on excavations at The Berth in Baschurch

Dear Blogger

Anyone who has an interest in our local history, this talk at Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group is not to be missed.

Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group

Our next meeting is at the Methodist Church Hall, Castle Street SY11 1LF

Friday, November 13th at 7.30pm

‘Excavations at the Berth, a low-lying marsh fort near Baschurch’

With Professor Henry Chapman

A much anticipated account of the recent excavations of this enigmatic site which is surrounded by marshy peatland. An iron age fort and an enclosure are linked by interconnecting causeways, while a Romano-British copper alloy cauldron in remarkable condition was found submerged in the peat at the edge of the nearby lake.

Entry:Visitors £5 Members £2

Thursday, 29 October 2026

Great Ness WI Christmas Fayre Sunday 22nd November

Dear Blogger

Message from Claire Dickinson, Nessfliffe

GREAT NESS WI CHRISTMAS FAYRE - Nesscliffe Village Hall Sunday 22nd November

See attached poster for details.