A prisoner who went on the run after being sprung from the clutches of prison officers as they escorted him to hospital has been arrested, police have said.

Councillors in Church Stretton have challenged a decision to scrap a £70,000 project to widen pavements on one of the town’s busiest roads.

Health bosses are on target to cut the number of deaths at Shropshire’s two general hospitals.

Benefit claimants and the over-60s will have to pay to swim in Telford & Wrekin from April – although it will still be free for under 16s.

 



 




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