SHROPSHIRE Hills Discovery Centre is now run by registered charity, Grow Cook Learn; connecting people to the food, history and landscape of the Shropshire Hills. Following its popularity last year and to celebrate May being National Walking Month, Grow Cook Learn has teamed up again with local walks leader, Keith Pybus, to bring you the "stunning" Bluebell Walk on Sunday, May 7.

The walk will start at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre at 10.30am and will take approximately two hours. It will be 3.5 miles of easy walking along mostly field paths and quiet lanes, including a few gentle ascents.

Keith is a qualified walks leader and arch storyteller. "There's a magic about our bluebell woods which has attracted the nation's poets and made it our most popular wildflower. Britain has between a quarter and half of the world's bluebell population. They are a most precious resource: it takes five years from seed to flower and 35 years for the bulbs to extend their cover by just 70 strides. If a bluebell wood is lost it can take 100 years to re-generate."

He has appeared on BBC Countryfile, The House Detectives and Midlands Today's Winter Walks, promoting some of the best walks in Shropshire.

With years of experience in the area, and author of Blue Remembered Hills, Keith will share with the walkers his knowledge, stories and humorous anecdotes of his time in the Shropshire Hills.

Keith added "Sallow Coppice is fortunate in enjoying the care of Craven Arms Volunteers for the Environment (CAVE). Without their coppicing the wood would lack that perfect balance between sunlight and shade which the bluebells demand."

Booking is advisable, either on 01588 676060 or at the Discovery Centre reception.