
Hopes of staging a revamped West Mid Show this summer today moved a step closer after bosses applied for a new premises licence.
The crisis-hit West Mid Show could be handed a lifeline by Shropshire Council.
Up to 20 jobs are to be created when a Wellington pub which has stood empty for more than a year is transformed into a fish and chip restaurant.
Letter: The recent pronouncements of the Equality and Human Rights Commission on working longer repeat the call for extended and flexible working for those above pensionable age.
Fears were today growing for the future of one of Shropshire’s largest building firms, which has been in existence for almost half a century.
More than 10 jobs will be created when a 70-seater restaurant opens at a stately home on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.
Recession-hit businesses cutting their water use amid the downturn will now cost Severn Trent around £10 million, instead of the £20 million predicted last year.
Letter: Perhaps when we next eat a piece of Cadbury chocolate we will recall it was this government that gave up its power to intervene on the grounds of national interest in the case of hostile foreign bids for UK companies.
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