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I'm putting together a map of the tracks and walks and everything!

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  • How to join up to this site: it's open, any one can become a member. We totally hide your email address from spam bots too. Just join up!
  • How to post a news item to the front page: you'd need to be a member, then post one. It won't get to the front till an editor approves it (just so there's no funny biz ;-)))
  • How to add a discussion group message: best place for questions!!! Again you need to be a member, then post a discussion group message. Remember to click the email reply box so you'll not need to keep returning to see if anyone has answered your mesage.
  • How to leave a comment: just click the greyed out comment link below any news item! If you're already logged in as a member this website will remember you, if not add your email address and name and you'll be quickly signed up.
  • How to alter your preferences: when logged in go to your Prefs page. Tell us a bit about yourselves. Nice to know who's here.

An independent group of individuals who share a love of The Wrekin and a determination to see it preserved for the good of its communities, landscape, wildlife and heritage.

Read more about Purpose, principles, activities and structure.

Some promotions about The Wrekin:

The Wrekin Hill
Allan's Twh cover
This book is available for £12.99 from all good booksellers and the Halfway House after the launch on 8th April 2007, or direct from Allan himself, in which case send a Sterling cheque for £12.99 made payable to ALLAN FROST  at 1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom. Overseas buyers should send an International Money Order for that amount (there is no additional charge for postage for this book).

Wrekin Wraiths, Rebels and Romans
Wrekin Wraiths
The book is available from all good booksellers and the Halfway House on The Wrekin after the official launch at the end of October 2006 or direct from Allan himself, in which case please send a Sterling cheque for £5.99 made payable to ALLAN FROST at 1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom. If you live outside the United Kingdom, send an International Money Order for £6.99 made payable to Allan Frost at the above address.

Fern Ticket
fernticket.jpg George Evans, the venerable chairman of All Friends Around The Wrekin has a booklet out. Already on its second reprint and the only book about The Wrekin, like ever!

Join George for a walk up and around The Wrekin, learn all the important landmarks and all the historical aspects of The Wrekin.

BTW: A fern ticket is the mythical permit to adventure on The Wrekin or in its magical forest. Couples spotted leaving a dance at the Forest Glen were asked. "Have you got your fern ticket?"

Wrekin Recipes
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Recipes taught to the pupils of Wrekin Road School in 1904 with Emmie Teece's memories of the Wellington area in the years before World War One.
£2.99 All proceeds to the Wrekin Appeal

Available from : Langlands Records, Wellington; Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Abbey Foregate,  Shrewsbury

How to: post a news item



News items are the paragraphs, or stories that appear in the front page. Full details can be found here though those details could be a little too deep for most users. Below I outline the things you'll need to know to begin to post news items. If you're at all worried by this — don't! Just try it. You won't break anything. If you make something that's a mess, don't worry, I'll come along soon, as I get emails telling me what you've done, and clean it up. I'd much rather you try! Anyway, if you're an ordinary member you'll only be able to create a new news item, it won't be posted to the front page, a Managing Editor will need to move it to there.

I'm assuming that you've already signed up, else were you to go to the new news item page, you'd get this an error telling you (helpfully) that you're not logged in, so don't have any permissions to post anything at all:

dont have enough permission

First up, you need to get to the page for creating new news items, you may want to bookmark this in your favourites, especially if you're going to be posting often, and I hope you do. There is no limit on the number of news items anybody can post in one day, though please use your common sense. If you don't bookmark this page, simply get to it by clicking the link under the Members title, called New news item, it's on every page within the site, as below:

new news item

Then once there, you'll ned to add a title for your news item. If you're linking to another site, you may also want to add a URL for that other site in the URL box. A URL is a web page address like http://www.whatever.com/

Then you'll need to add the actual text for the news item. You can highlight text and embolden, italicise or otherwise enhance this text using the controls on the top of the edit box. Mostly, you'll want to just add plain text, with no such enhancement — mostly such enhancement can look ugly. To separate paragraphs, simply hit the return key twice, thus, having a spare line between paras. To start a new line, you'll need to simply hit the return key once. This is what you see is what you get editing, so the final should look as you see in this editing box.

Oh, and don't forget to pick which department you want this news item to be included in, use the drop down list to pick one.

edit news item

If you know a bit of HTML you may want to swap between the source and what you wee is what you get modes. Mostly, you won't, and certainly you don't need to.

You can ignore the comments check box, leave it on. Also, ignore the ping box. Unless you want to read some more instructions on trackback here.

Pressing the create news item button, will take you to a view of the news item allowing you to re-edit the news item.

edit news item bottom

Once you're sure that you've created a nice news item, release it, so that a Managing Editor can post it to the front page. We've several, and it won't be long before one of them will make that call. You'll only see this, 'post to front page' if you've enough editorial permissions. That is if you're an editor. If you don't see this button don't worry, your news item is created and is awaiting an editor to approve it.

post to front page: Further reading can be found here.



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