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Mark Leadbetter with his custom-made stretch VW Beetle.

Mark Leadbetter, of Frith Common, between Cleobury Mortimer and Tenbury Wells, has become the first person in the county and fourth in the UK to have a custom-made stretch VW Beetle.

Drivers in tight spot over parking

As our photos show, there is little room for manoeuvre when you squeeze your car into one of the spaces at Raven Meadows.  Pictures: Laura Dutfield.

Squeezing into the tiny spaces of a multi-storey car park is an effort at the best of times. However, motorists in Shrewsbury find it a harder task than anywhere else in the country.

New hope for town drivers

Roadworks on Ketley Brook Roundabout last year

Highways chiefs are to install a £250,000 system to control traffic signals over the next year in a move designed to slash journey times across Telford and Wrekin.

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Chance to test motor racing skills

Shropshire’s budding Lewis Hamiltons have a chance to put the pedal to the metal at an Exhibition of Speed this week.

Drivers to face repairs on A458

Major works to restore and make safe the rock face on a main Shropshire road could be bought forward - but no official start date has been released. Harley Bank on the A458 near Much Wenlock will be shut for up to six weeks in the summer while work is carried out.

Roads plan still delayed

The saga of Bridgnorth’s long-awaited relief road rumbled on today after it was revealed there was still no definite start date for work.

How are fuel prices affecting you?

With fuel prices continually rising, our video team spoke to independent petrol retailer David Yorke about the rising cost of fuel and the difficulties with being independent from all the major chains.  

Drivers confused by sign of times

Shrewsbury’s roads are continuing to create problems for motorists driving through the county town during the current “pedestrian trial”, with conflicting instructions causing confusion.

‘No need to panic-buy petrol’

Motorists have been told not to buy more petrol than they need in anticipation of a strike planned at Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery on Sunday.

M54 link scheme ‘to go ahead’

The Government today reassured motorists in the West Midlands that a vital road scheme linking the M54 with the M6 Toll will go ahead after a minister appeared to suggest it was being scrapped.

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