A music festival in Shrewsbury has proved a big success and helped to raise about £10,000 for charity, organisers said today.

Thousands of foodies from across Mid Wales and further afield flocked to the annual Welsh Food Festival.

Thousands of people enjoyed a host of unusual and inventive performances in the heart of Shrewsbury as the annual international street theatre festival took over the town centre.

Shrewsbury town centre will be packed with performers from around the world for the next few days as part of the International Street Theatre Festival.

People from as far afield as Australia, Cambodia and Hungary will be visiting Ludlow for the town’s food and drink festival.

Revellers at this year’s V Festival helped to raise £33,000 for charity.

About 6,500 fans were due to stream away from Shrewsbury Folk Festival today following an event dubbed the biggest and best in its history.

Occasional showers failed to put a dampener on Shrewsbury Folk Festival as about 6,500 fans converged on the County Showground for the start of the four-day event.

More than 5,000 music fans were descending on Shrewsbury this afternoon to enjoy the town’s annual four-day folk festival.

Every train through Ludlow will be replaced by buses on the weekend thousands of visitors are due to flock to the town’s annual Food and Drink Festival.

Music lovers were today being offered the chance to snap up a limited number of tickets online for next year’s V Festival.

More than 600 volunteer litter pickers from across the country have descended on Weston Park in the wake of the V Festival.