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Great work of art or a waste of cash? Vote in our poll on the controversial sculpture.
Great work of art or a waste of cash? Vote in our poll on the controversial sculpture.
The wraps are off Quantum Leap. Is it a fitting tribute or waste of money?
Controversial Shrewsbury art sculpture Quantum Leap was finally unveiled today with the last part of a frame surrounding it taken down.
Shrewsbury’s controversial sculpture celebrating Charles Darwin is being slowly revealed, with bosses today claiming all will become clear to the public tomorrow.
Monty Python star and former Shrewsbury School pupil Michael Palin is set to return to the school this week to give a talk about Charles Darwin.
A controversial sculpture celebrating Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury is on target to be unveiled tomorrow, council officials said today, vowing people could enjoy it.
The future of the Princess Royal Hospital is under the spotlight as our podcast team look back at the events of the past seven days.
Fresh controversy has erupted over a sculpture in Shrewsbury celebrating Charles Darwin. But what do you think of Quantum Leap?
A major new Hollywood film celebrating the life of Shrewsbury-born Charles Darwin has received its regional premiere in Shropshire.
Today health bosses make a promise on the future of county hospital services, police name the victim of a south Shropshire road accident, and New Zealand couple tour Darwin’s birthplace.
Shropshire Star film critic Carl Jones on the new film Creation, which tells the story of Shrewsbury-born Charles Darwin and which had a regional premiere in the town last night.
TV host Johnny Ball captivated his audience during two shows in Shropshire with a wealth of scientific facts and information – including explaining how 50 per cent of human genes are the same those found in a banana.
Creation, the new film about the life of Charles Darwin, is to get a gala regional premiere tonight in the town of his birth.
Letter: How can those building the sculpture in Mardol Gardens, with all the modern technology at their finger tips, get the final alignment so wrong?
A £78 million building which will house state-of-the-art scientific research and storage facilities and is named after Shrewsbury’s most famous son Charles Darwin has been unveiled in London.
The great-great granddaughter of Shrewsbury’s most famous son Charles Darwin joined a Hollywood A-lister, historians and scientists as she attempts to re-create his landmark voyage on HMS Beagle.
Is it Darwin or Merlin? Some pranksters thought it would be a good idea to furnish a statue of Shrewsbury’s most famous son with a traffic cone, leaving him looking more like the mystical wizard of Arthurian legend.
A rare third edition of The Origin of Species – the famous book written by Shrewsbury-born naturalist Charles Darwin – is to be auctioned in his home town later this month.
The £350,000 sculpture being built to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury’s most famous son, has been hit by technical problems which may never be resolved, it was revealed today.
Charles Darwin’s image is known around the world but now it has appeared on new lollipops being sold in Shropshire.
A first edition of Shrewsbury-born scientist Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking work On The Origin Of Species has sold for more than £15,000 at auction.
The new £350,000 sculpture and geo-garden being built to mark the bicentenary of Shrewsbury-born scientist Charles Darwin will be the town’s answer to the Angel of the North, it was claimed today.
The new Charles Darwin Quantum Leap public artwork is taking shape in Shrewsbury. See our picture gallery here.
A Shropshire artist, who is determined to show that her disability will not hold her back, is set to hold an exhibition in Shrewsbury featuring a painting of Charles Darwin.
A new £350,000 sculpture and geo-garden to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Shrewsbury’s most famous son Charles Darwin is now starting to take shape. See the pictures here.
What happens when you lock eight of the folk music world’s finest musicians away and ask them to write a song for Charles Darwin’s 200th anniversary? Find out here.
TV presenter Nick Owen returned to Shrewsbury today to help launch a mass-read of a literary classic as part of celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
A Shropshire garden where a young Charles Darwin took walks to contemplate his future will open to the public this month.
A major floral extravaganza to celebrate the life of Shrewsbury’s most famous son Charles Darwin is to be held at the county church where his family is buried.
A new piece of public art to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin will start to “rise out of the river bank” in Shrewsbury with work beginning in earnest today.
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