Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival heads indoors to escape Storm Hannah

Some of the world's best artists were due to show off their skills in The Square on Saturday as part of the annual festival, which is now in its 16th year.

But after seeing the forecast on Friday evening, the organisers had to find an alternative.

Thankfully there was space in the Darwin and Pride Hill shopping centres which allowed all of the events to go ahead in doors.

And despite the 45mph gusts of wind and rain, families from all over the county and further afield came along to see the cartoonists at work.

The bottom level of the Darwin centre was transformed into a studio with giant canvases for the artists to display their life-size cartoons.

There was also big queues for people to have their caricature drawn.

Beth and Matt Kelsall, from Telford, brought their 18-month-old son Thomas along.

"We had two caricatures of him done and I think they're really cute," Beth said.

"They even captured his little frown which made me laugh. We'll be able to keep these as a nice memory."

Dawn Cank also posed to be transformed into a cartoon.

She said: "My daughter Abigail really wanted to come into town for the festival so we decided to both get our caricature done. I think it's brilliant.

"We've been once before and it's a really good day out. We're also going to go to the superhero workshop which will be fun."

There has also been a range of exhibitions, talks and demonstrations throughout the week.

The theme for this year's festival, which is raising money for Guide Dogs UK, is animals.