‘New Co’ should read ‘Joke Co’. As a former manufacturing director and professional working for blue chip companies in the private sector I am outraged at the thought of the council setting up a company to run services for profit.
Council bosses deliberately shunned plans for a supermarket in Newport in a bid to support an application for a store on their own land, a public inquiry has heard.
Firefighters were called to a care home in Telford in the early hours of today after a patient hoist caught fire.
A dog has died in Newport after being strangled by its collar in a ‘freak accident’ with another dog.
Telford’s ice rink will close on May 27 for work on a £4 million refurbishment scheme to begin.
Job losses could follow moves to involve other local authorities in plans to create a new company to run some council services in Shropshire to make money, the county’s Labour leader warned today.
The Prime Minister this afternoon paid tribute to a 25-year-old airman from Telford who was killed while on active service in Afghanistan.
As today’s jobless figures are analysed and pored over for every last trend and twitch of the economy, human stories raise the question of how much faith we should put in the official figures.
Arthur Hubbard doesn’t count. The 62-year-old from Knighton, who has worked and paid into the system since he was 15, is unemployed.
Fears over speeding in Shifnal are growing after more than 160 cars were clocked in one hour breaking the speed limit along one road, according to a road safety group.
Seventeen pedestrians have been killed and more than 130 seriously injured on roads in Shropshire over the past five years, police figures revealed today.
The family of an RAF serviceman from Telford killed in Afghanistan has paid tribute to a ‘tremendous’ son who will they miss forever.
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