A petition with more than 700 signatures calling for Bishop’s Castle’s branch of Barclays to be saved will be sent to bosses at the bank in the next few days.

A £250,000 car club will be set up in three Shropshire towns this year in an effort to cut congestion and parking problems.

The recent sale of the Shropshire and Mid Wales supermarket chain Harry Tuffins to the Co-op has been referred to the Office of Fair Trading, it was revealed today.

An abattoir believed to be the only one in Shropshire which slaughters lambs, pigs and cattle is going into liquidation with the loss of 13 jobs, it has been revealed.

Star rating: **** Sharon Walters enjoys a break on a shopping trip.

Leisure chiefs at Shropshire Council were today accused of ‘penny-pinching’ following a decision to exclude three county centres from a free swimming initative introduced in the run-up to the Olympics.

Campaigners in Bishop’s Castle today called on the banks Barclays and HSBC to share premises in the town in a bid to secure the future of the branches.

Dear Rea Valley residents and farmers, I am so disappointed you aren’t proud of a step forward in essential green energy production for us and our supporting planet.

More than 500 historic buildings in Ludlow are at risk of going to rack and ruin because of Government plans to charge VAT on alterations to listed buildings, it was claimed today.

Bishop’s Castle’s closure-threatened Barclays branch is the least-used in Shropshire and North Wales, it has been revealed.

Bosses at supermarket chain Harry Tuffins have said they will look to expand other areas after Midcounties Co-operative bought their stores.

Supermarket chain Harry Tuffins today changed hands in a shock deal.

Some of Shropshire’s iconic structures in need of repair could fall into terminal decline following a Government decision to charge VAT on alterations to listed buildings, it was claimed today.

The fight is on to save Bishop’s Castle’s Barclays bank from closure. A petition has been launched to prevent the bank in High Street closing on June 29.

Barclays Bank in Bishop’s Castle is to close – leaving the town’s high street with just one major bank.

Architects have taken the wraps off four designs to transform the appearance of SpArC in Bishop’s Castle.

A charity could be formed in Bishop’s Castle to take over the historic town hall, it was revealed today. The town council is trying to secure £750,000.

Yobs killed thousands of bees when they pelted beehives with rocks then knocked over three of them in a ‘mindless’ attack at an eco-village in Bishop’s Castle, according to locals.

A crunch meeting about the future of Bishop’s Castle Business Park – once earmarked for a £5million biomass plant – takes place tonight.

I write in reply to the letter from the directors of Bishop’s Castle Biomass Power Ltd.

Developers behind plans for a controversial biomass plant in Bishop’s Castle have broken their silence following the collapse of the project.

The directors of Bishop’s Castle Biomass Power Ltd are extremely disappointed with the breakdown of negotiations with Shropshire Council over the terms of the lease for the site of the combined heat and power plant.

Four new specialist clinics could be created at Bishop’s Castle Community Hospital as part of a bid to expand medical care for local people and save long journeys to acute hospitals in Shrewsbury or Telford.

New operators could be found to run five leisure centres in Shropshire unless current bosses agree a funding cut, it was revealed today.

Solar panels costing almost £10,000 are to be installed on the roof of a public toilet block in south Shropshire.

The controversial switching off of thousands of streetlights across Shropshire between midnight and dawn could be completed sooner than planned, it was revealed today.

Campaigners who won a battle to stop a controversial biomass plant in Bishop’s Castle today vowed to work with Shropshire Council to find the best use for the vacant land.

No other companies will be approached to build a biomass plant in Bishop’s Castle, it was revealed today.

Doctors a crisis-hit surgery in Bishop’s Castle say they are doing everything they can to protect services and maintain patient care.

Campaigners in Bishop’s Castle today spoke of their jubilation after controversial plans to build a £5 million biomass plant in the town were dropped.