Building a £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury would be the ‘the wrong type of development, in the wrong place, at the wrong time’, a planning inquiry today heard.

Residents were this afternoon urged to show a united front and reveal their opposition when proposals for a controversial £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury go before a public inquiry.

Veteran actor Robert Hardy has criticised the proposed £60 million incinerator in Shropshire as a “blasted chimney” and threatened to resign from his role with English Heritage over the burner.

A war-chest of up to £5,000 has been created by town councillors to fight plans to build an incinerator in Shrewsbury.

Letter: Tesco officials are expected to face a grilling over the company’s controversial plans to expand the size of its Shrewsbury store at a public meeting tonight.

Green campaigners in Shrewsbury today announced they will launch a cash appeal to help them fight plans to build a controversial £60 million incinerator in the town.

A legal eagle or an expert planner will be hired to fight an appeal by waste firm Veolia over its controversial proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury.

An elderly woman who died after her static caravan caught fire at a holiday park near Shrewsbury was today named by police.

A public inquiry to decide the fate of a controversial proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury is expected to last 12 days, officials said today.

Shropshire’s food and drink industry could soon receive a major boost if a £5.8 million funding bid is approved.

Shropshire councillors will meet behind closed doors to decide their position over a possible appeal after plans for a £60 million incinerator on the outskirts of Shrewsbury were refused.

Bosses at Shropshire Food Enterprise Centre are celebrating “bringing the place to life” by renting out nearly all of the units in the multi-million pound venture.

Letter: In allowing Tesco to get away with its breach of planning permission at its Harlescott store, Shropshire Council has shown it is without courage, conviction and commitment in planning.

The fate of a controversial proposal to build a £60 million incinerator on a site on the outskirts of Shrewsbury will be decided by planners at the end of this month, it emerged today.

Controversial plans for a £60 million incinerator proposed for the outskirts of Shrewsbury today moved a step closer to becoming a reality after environmental bosses issued it with a permit.

Reviewer’s rating ** Russell Roberts is unimpressed by meals at a refurbished pub although he enjoyed the dessert.

Campaigners today gave their reaction to claims that Shropshire taxpayers will be forced to pay out nearly £11 million a year to run a controversial incinerator in the county.

Bosses behind plans for a controversial £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury today vowed they would not import waste from outside the county to burn.

Supermarket giant Tesco has been using 20 per cent more space for the sale of non-grocery goods than is allowed by law at its store in Shrewsbury since it opened, a report has claimed.

Supermarket giant Tesco took up to £3.5 million of trade out of Shrewsbury town centre by breaking rules on how much space it used for non-grocery products, it was claimed today.

The fate of controversial plans for a £60 million incinerator proposed for the outskirts of Shrewsbury could be decided in a matter of months.

Plans for a new industrial estate which will include office space, retail units and a day nursery, have been submitted to Shropshire Council.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski today claimed Shropshire Council would be forced to pay compensation if it wanted to pull out of a deal for a controversial £60 million incinerator in the town.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski today vowed to write to the Environment Secretary demanding an exemption for the county from landfill taxes in a bid to halt plans for a multi-million pound incinerator in the town.

Shrewsbury’s MP is to meet with waste bosses and leaders from the main political parties in the county over controversial plans to build a £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury.

Supermarket giant Tesco was rapped after breaking planning rules on how much space it can use for non-grocery products at its Shrewsbury superstore.

Shrewsbury’s MP is to call for controversial £60 million plans for an incinerator in the town to be scrapped during high level talks with waste bosses later this month.

This is the moment when an adorable family of newly-hatched ducklings Shropshire took their first tentative steps on Shropshire soil.

A 26-year-old man who drove over the top of a main Shropshire roundabout at speeds of up to 90mph during a police chase has escaped an immediate prison sentence.

Campaign groups greeted members of the new Shropshire Council with placards and banners urging the authority to throw out plans for a £60 million incinerator on the edge of Shrewsbury.