Category: Climate change / environment

462 Climate change / environment posts found.

Fun and games as Shrewsbury hosts new Beat the Street interactive challenge

08/06/2022
Beat the Street logo

A new interactive game to encourage people to get active and walk or cycle more is coming to Shrewsbury. Beat the Street…

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Volunteers spot new bug at nature reserve

06/06/2022
Fallen's Leatherbug

A new species of bug has been found by volunteers at Eardington Nature Reserve, near Bridgnorth. A group of voluntary wildlife recorders…

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20mph limit in Shrewsbury’s Copthorne and Porthill areas to be considered by Cabinet

27/05/2022

Plans to implement a pilot 20mph speed limit in the Copthorne and Porthill areas of Shrewsbury will be considered by Shropshire Council’s…

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Summer celebrations sky lanterns and balloons ban

25/05/2022
Image of two walkers on Bromlow Callow, Shropshire with bright skies, green fields and hedgrows.

As the summer season of parties and celebrations gets underway with The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, people are being reminded not to…

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Shropshire’s new school travel plan co-ordinator begins work

18/05/2022

A new school travel plan co-ordinator has started work with Shropshire Council. Rhiannon Letman-Wade joined the council on 9 May [2022] and…

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Council and partners win national award for carbon neutral school build

16/05/2022
Winning team being presented with the award. Left to right Lucy Fletcher (Shropshire Council), Damien Bryan (Read Construction), Harvey Gould (Shropshire Council) and Alex Read (Read Construction)

Shropshire Council, Read Construction Holdings Ltd and PSG (Shropshire Council’s Property Services Group) have won a national award for its carbon neutral…

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Council offers free help for small businesses on the road to sustainability with new funding

16/05/2022
Cool Shropshire logo

Cool Shropshire & Telford, a new £20,000 initiative to aid small businesses in making the move towards improving sustainability, is being launched…

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Shrewsbury through to next stage of Mini-Holland funding bid

14/05/2022
A man cycling in Shrewsbury

News from Shrewsbury Big Town Plan Partnership Shrewsbury could be in line for a £20 million boost to transform movement in and…

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Council and partners win national award for innovative nature-based approach to Corvedale flooding project

12/05/2022
Luke Neal explaining the key features of a leaky woody barrier on the Wilde brook, Corvedale.

Shropshire Council, along with WSP, Shropshire Wildlife Trust and Cardiff University, have won the ‘Studies and Research’ category for the prestigious ICE…

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News from our partners: Flying the flag for the amazing May fish migration

03/05/2022
New commemorative May fish flag

News from our partners Unlocking The Severn This May, for the first time in nearly 180 years, the UK’s longest river has…

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