Shrewsbury charity shop decked out with vinyl singles

Music lovers with a passion for vinyl are being urged to check out hundreds of singles that have gone on sale at a charity shop in Shrewsbury.

The Oxfam Bookshop in Dogpole is selling off about 1,000 seven-inch vinyl singles from across the decades, with all of the records being priced at just £1.

The huge collection was mainly donated by one person, who came into the shop over a period of months, bringing bagfuls of singles with him on each occasion.

Ros Westwood, manager of the charity shop in Shrewsbury, said there was something for every musical taste in the collection.

"It is a pretty big cross-section. There is some classical, some from the 1960s and a lot is from the 1970s and 1980s," she said.

"There is stuff from Queen and most of the major bands from the 1980s like U2 and things like that. It is probably more pop and rock than classical."

The sale is set to take place for another two weeks and Mrs Westwood explained the store was able to do it largely due to the generosity of one anonymous donor.

"A lot of it was from one gentleman who came in for a couple of months and brought two bagfuls of records every time he came in," she said.

Mrs Westwood added that the sale had already been running for several days and members of the public who have visited the charity shop had been showing plenty of interest in what is on offer.

"It has been quite good and it takes people a long time to look through them all."

The money raised by the sale will go towards helping to support the work of Oxfam. The charity announced today that thanks to work of British boxer Amir Khan, five new schools have been built in flood-affected areas of Pakistan.

The star visited the country in 2010 after the country was hit by devastating floods that affected up to 20 million people. He came back determined to help out and has now raised more than £100,000.