Connor PR

22/05/2025

Today's Shropshire Star, PR starts at home

20/05/2025

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2025/05/20/ill-be-dead-before-anything-happens-shropshire-floods-campaigner-laments-wait-for-action-and-calls-for-more-investment-at-westminster/

A flooding activist and businesswoman who has been flooded 20 times since 1998 has called for more help at a national audit committee.

20/05/2025

17/05/2025

Shrewsbury has been named one of the happiest places to live by The Guardian
They highlight our charming Tudor buildings, award winning market, vibrant shops and historic pubs, excellent schools, our access to green spaces, and train links to Birmingham and Manchester.
They also mention that we have now been named one of the best places to live in multiple polls.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2025/may/17/the-happiest-places-to-live-in-britain?fbclid=IwY2xjawKVmrlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFGMTBuazJ4MHUwOWw5UGZkAR5AaJMQ9UM_a1_PysqvAQmfhTlSPJhD-Id3Il5j9l2cDchb0OqEKrZqXxFgZQ_aem_KeRSkJEI3hlwtHYEFcbVlQ

What makes for a great place to live? Access to nature, a sense of community and culture on your doorstep can all help. So which towns make the cut?

13/05/2025

THOUSANDS OF FLOOD VICTIMS MISSING OUT ON VITAL
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT TO HELP PROTECT THEIR HOMES FROM FUTURE STORMS

● Data obtained by climate education charity, One Home, shows the Government’s £5,000 Property Flood Resilience (PFR) grant scheme is comprehensively failing to reach those who need it most.
● The PFR grant scheme enables homeowners whose houses have flooded to apply for a £5,000 grant to help make their property more resilient to future storms.
● Following Storms Babet in October 2023 and Henk in January 2024, 27 local authorities opened applications for the grant, with more than 4,000 homes and businesses eligible to apply.
● Yet after Storm Babet, just 7 applications were received out of 94 eligible homeowners in Norfolk, and despite 205 homes being eligible on the Isle of Wight just 24 applications were received.
● Following Storm Henk, Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have all seen low application rates.
● In Herefordshire and Windsor and Maidenhead NO grants have been paid in full 15 months on from Storm Henk, despite a total of 125 eligible households.
● Applications for PFR grants relating to Storm Babet closed in April and will close to Storm Henk in July.
● As one in four homes is set to be at risk of flooding by 2050, One Home CEO calls on the Government to raise awareness of the PFR grant scheme, implement more efficient support for flood victims and ensure new build homes have better adaptation measures in place.

03/05/2025

Great to be working with the Liverpool Gospel Music Festival team again and World Vision. Exciting news to share! A rare vinyl by former Beatle John Lennon which was gifted to World Vision charity by his widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Ono Lennon will be auctioned at Liverpool Gospel Music Festival on Sunday 4th May 2025, at Liverpool Olympia
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rare-john-lennon-vinyl-auctioned-31542762

Bidding will start at £500

03/05/2025

THE MUSIC FESTIVAL THAT’S PUTTING GOSPEL MUSIC INTO SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE
The UKs only mainstream Gospel Music Festival will take place on 4th May 2025 at Liverpool Olympia. The festival will be accompanied by a programme taking gospel music into schools which has brought about a curriculum change that is seeing more young people nationwide learning about the music genre.
The programme was piloted in 2023 where 200 students were introduced to the history of gospel music and over 14 schools are currently participating in the initiative. Pupils from Cardinal Heenan and Broughton Hall in West Derby have participated in the programme.

Watch the latest from ITV News - Running alongside the festival - hundreds of young people across the city have been learning about the joy the music can bring and how it all began.

29/04/2025

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2025/04/28/proms-in-the-park-boss-urges-salopians-to-support-quintessentially-british-events-after-flower-show-cancelled/

The organiser of a popular open-air concert hopes Salopians will still be out supporting “quintessentially British” events in Shropshire after Shrewsbury Flower Show was cancelled.

04/01/2025

https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2024/12/23/mp-and-shrewsbury-councillor-urge-flood-hit-residents-and-businesses-to-share-experiences/

North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan and Shrewsbury councillor Alex Wagner have urged flood-hit residents, farmers and businesses to share their experiences with a local flood forum.

04/10/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx250y17x67o

A meeting will take place next week to discuss recent flooding and how it could be prevented.

31/08/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgw136qwz6o

Bryan Machin says he feels a part of the furniture in the Watson & Thornton shop.

30/08/2024

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2024/08/29/shrewsbury-shop-worker-set-to-hang-up-scissors-after-50-years/

More than 50 years after starting work at a landmark fabric and haberdashers, Bryan Machin will finally be hanging up his scissors.