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from the Shropshire Star (SS), Oswestry Advertizer (OA), and BBC websites, and elsewhere
- photos from the same articles

    2008
  • Tributes paid to a former teacher - Ruth Jackson died at her home in Maesbury after a three-year cancer battle. OA February
  • 'Business as usual' - The headteacher of the threatened Maesbury Primary School has expressed her relief after they were spared the axe. OA February
  • MAESBURY REACTS: Head in two minds - My head says they are doing the right thing, but my heart says this is completely wrong," the words of Maesbury CE Primary School Head, Rosemary Finney, faced with proposals to close her school. OA January
  • Couple’s fears over school - A couple who are helping to bring up their young grandson after the death of both of his parents in road accidents are now fighting to keep his school at Maesbury, near Oswestry, open. SS January
Ruth Jackson

    2007
  • Lorries spark sat-nav fury - Locals say the devices are just part of the problem in the picturesque Maesbury and Maesbury Marsh area where some lorries are having to use the roads to deliver to businesses in the area. SS December
  • SNAP NAV! - Lorry drivers following satellite navigation systems directions through Maesbury are causing a danger to other road users and school children it has been claimed. OA December
  • Cabinet back new policy for schools - Two schools in particular, ... Maesbury Primary School, ... with fewer than four classes as required by the new policy, now face an agonising wait... OA December
  • Speeders warned - At last week's Partners and Community Together meeting at Maesbury's Canal Central . . . OA October
  • Schools to Close? - Maesbury Primary School is one of the smallest primaries in the area with 51 pupils, and fewer than four classes OA October
  • County being Switched on to Broadband - Broadplaces in the Oswestry area include: . . . Maesbury, OA July
  • Maesbury Women's Institute - For the June meeting, 29 members met at Llanymynech Wharf . . . OA June
  • Elderly catch 'surfing' bug - John Davis from Maesbury Broadplace said: “The internet offers so many opportunities for older people, whether you are researching your family history or want to send an email to family abroad. At Canal Central we are offering support to people who want to drop in and have a go, especially if it is your first time. Bring a friend and come along!” - OA May
  • Allen wins fantasy contest - football fan Allen Edwards is celebrating today . . .The 44-year-old, from Maesbury Marsh, topped the table in our season-long competition to win a top of the range flat screen high-definition TV, plus £500 cash. - SS May
  • Maesbury School - new website, May
  • Canal Central Case Study - on Shropshire County Council website uploaded April
  • Helicopter pilot's flight of fancy - Helicopter flying instructor Rob Lewis will be hoping his garden really takes off this summer when Bluebell Cottage, Aston makes its debut in the National Garden Scheme. OA March
  • Villagers celebrate end of works - Villagers at Maesbury Marsh are celebrating the end of a massive construction project which has plagued them for eight months. OA March
  • Win a makeover worth £4,000 - In this special revamped Star Woman we have teamed up with Jayne Millington of Body and Face Options Ltd in Maesbury Marsh, near Oswestry, and a host of other Shropshire specialists to offer a amazing prize to one lucky reader. SS March
  • Move to save post offices - “Ministers could do worse than visit Maesbury and see a brand new post office . . . . The Government sees the network as an out of date, expensive problem. Maesbury shows it could be a great opportunity.” - Owen Patterson MP, front page SS, February
  • Road damage blamed on snow - "...Maesbury was “horrendous” as traffic, including large, freight vehicles, used the B road through the village as a diversion." SS Feb
  • Maesbury Broadplace Top of the League! - The logon figures for all Shropshire Broadplaces in 2006 show that Maesbury was getting by far the highest usage.
  • Post office with pods for guests - Reporter Toby Walne is touring the country as part of Financial Mail's Save Our Post Offices campaign. His latest trip takes him to beautiful Shropshire and an extremely rare building - a new post office. - Toby Walne, Mail on Sunday, 23 January
  • Where is Britain's most modern post office - Where is the most modern post office in Britain? I was surprised to discover it on an isolated stretch of canal in rural Shropshire. Canal Central opened barely three months ago. - The Money Blog, January 19
  • Owen Patterson MP for North Shropshire: Owen was in Maesbury recently to visit the new Post Office and shop, opened recently by Fiona MacDonald and Iain Campbell. - 11 January, see photo opposite from Owen's website



    2006
  • Key to future for rural post office? - Alongside the picturesque Montgomery Canal at Maesbury Marsh, a smart new environmentally-friendly building in light wood, with an attractive red roof, is now home to Maesbury Post Office, a tempting shop where as much produce as possible is sourced locally, charming tea rooms and a full-blown IT centre with lap tops, printers, laminators and for a lowly annual fee, a modern link to the outside world. SS December
  • Road to Ruin - Work to install mains sewerage in Maesbury Marsh has cost businesses thousands in lost trade with week delays causing widespread disruption and decimating passing trade according to those businesses affected. OA November
  • Pub anger over sewer works - Mark Baggett, owner of The Navigation Inn in Maesbury Marsh, said his business continues to be adversely affected since the work started four months ago. SS November
  • Maesbury Broadplaces launches with a bang! - The community turned out in force to celebrate the opening of the latest Switch on Shropshire Community Broadplace on 16 October at Maesbury Post Office and Tea Rooms at Canal Central. Switch on Shropshire
  • Switch on for village Broadplace - The Maesbury community were out in force at the opening of the Switch on Shropshire Community Broadplace. OA October
  • Model club bid rejected - Oswestry’s model flying enthusiasts have lost their bid to fly their machines more often after protests from [Maesbury] villagers living nearby SS October
  • Model group set for more time - Plans to increase the time model aircraft enthusiasts can fly their machines over [Maesbury] are set to be given the go-ahead, despite objections from protesters. SS October
  • The Maesbury Milers - Dawn and Hazel complete the Liverpool 10k October
  • Brakes being put on village speeders - Villagers who are worried about the excessive speed of traffic ... have been holding a laser speed detection device which is checking the speed of motorists in Maesbury,.. under a new Community Speed Watch scheme. OA October
  • Speed Watch Scheme Launched - The first Community Speed Watch group went live in Shropshire last Thursday, in the village of Maesbury. OA October
  • Residents get speed guns - People in [Maesbury] have armed themselves with speed guns in the battle to slow down motorists who race through the main street. SS September
  • Kit church celebrates centenary - Clergy and worshipers at a church that was built in kit form are making final preparations for its centenary. BBC, August
  • Villagers to trap speeders - Specially-trained volunteers using speed guns are to help put the brakes on motorists racing through villages. Villagers in Maesbury, Trefonen and Treflach have already volunteered. SS July
  • Navvy News - May/June 2006 May/June (PDF 96k)
  • Church's birthday bash - Preparations are under way for the centenary celebrations at the Church of St John the Baptist in Maesbury. OA May
  • Villagers in appeal for review over council - A thriving village near Oswestry says it wants its own parish council, to serve the needs of the 500-strong community Maesbury is part of Oswestry Rural Parish Council. SS April
  • Road chiefs put brakes on calls for island - Campaigners fighting for a traffic island at a notorious accident blackspot near Oswestry have been dealt a huge blow after highway chiefs turned down their bid. SS April
  • Junction decision was ridiculous - As the campaign to improve the safety of Oswestry’s Maesbury Road junction gathers momentum, I wonder whether other readers know what lay behind the decision not to create a roundabout. SS March
  • Balloon-bursting fun for charity - Children at the See-Saw Montessori Kindergarten at Maesbury, near Oswestry, had fun bursting balloons yesterday as part of a huge fundraising day to help pay for Herceptin treatment for Margaret Bradford. SS March
  • Council lays out area’s future - The consultation exercise to discuss the way that Oswestry Borough will develop over the next 15 years attracted more than 1,500 visitors. OA March
  • Coroner Joins Road Fight -A coroner has added his voice to the Advertizer’s campaign to change the Maesbury Road junction, after hearing how its latest victim, an 81-year-old woman, had previously described the turning as ‘scary’. OA March
  • Still going 100 years on - St John’s Church at Maesbury is a corrugated iron building which, whether or not it was built to last, has certainly lasted — it marks its centenary this year — in our modern view it is hidden behind trees. SS February
  • Jobs hope in canal plans - Up to 300 jobs could be created as part of a £45 million restoration plan for the Montgomery Canal in one of biggest tourism boosts to Shropshire and Mid Wales for decades. SS February
  • Beauty through science - Jane Millington, proprietor and head therapist at Body & Face Options beauty therapy clinic has recently moved the business to a beautiful, tranquil, peaceful and scenic location. SS February
  • Canal scheme’s £575,000 Lotto boost - Campaigners were celebrating today after scooping more than half a million pounds to open up the Montgomery Canal all the way to the Welsh border.
  • Work under way on eco-friendly centre - The first sod has been cut of a £200,000 post office and shop for a Shropshire village that has been without one for two years. The eco-friendly building in Maesbury Marsh will have a community shop, post office and tea rooms. SS January
  • Work starts on new PO project -The first sod has been cut on the site of Maesbury’s new Coed y Rae post office, tea room and shop facilities OA January

 








Note: unfortunately the Shropshire Star has deleted all its old archives, so we are left with just the headlines - and some pictures which were copied from the articles.

 

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