UNEMPLOYMENT HAS soared by 49,000 to 2.5 million, with a record number of young people out of work, new figures showed today.

A major supplier of potatoes in the UK today announced that jobs could be lost at its north Shropshire site.

Hundreds of jobs are to go at the biggest employer in Powys over the next five years in a bid to cut costs and improve services it has been revealed.

Hundreds of jobs for young people are to be created in Shropshire, the Government has announced. The 200 jobs will be found in a variety of sectors including environmental, social care and support for the elderly, social housing and benefits advice.

A Telford company, which was owed money by collapsed county firm Wrekin Construction, has folded with the loss of 30 jobs.

Home shopping group Shop Direct – which has a call centre in Newtown – is to cut 1,500 jobs, union leaders said today.

Unemployment has fallen for the first time in almost two years with fewer people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, new figures have revealed today.

One of Shropshire’s biggest car dealerships today announced plans to scale down part of its operation in Telford.

More than 80 jobs are to be created in Shropshire with the expansion of an industrial estate and a scheme to slash unemployment.

The number of people out of work in Shropshire has soared by more than 80 per cent in the last year with not enough being done to help people back into jobs, a Liberal Democrat MP has claimed.

Britain’s unemployment total today rose to its highest level in 14 years – with nearly 10,000 people now out of work across Shropshire.

Shropshire today received a welcome jobs boost with the news that up to 100 posts have been created at two nursing homes and 20 positions could open up after the expansion of a convenience store.

More than 140 Allied Carpets stores were shut today – including two in Shropshire – as the firm’s administrator admitted defeat in its bid to save the chain.

Britain’s unemployment crisis today hit a 14-year high as the recession claimed another 220,000 jobs, with the number of people out of work totalling 2.43 million.

Up to 45 jobs could be axed at engineering giant Doncasters in Shropshire, bosses revealed today.

More than 7,000 new jobs will be created across Shropshire and the West Midlands after the county was given a share of a £1 billion Government kitty.

Up to 100 jobs are to be created in the region by a new Shropshire business helping companies go green.

The number of young people out of work in Telford has risen by more than three per cent since the start of the recession, figures reveal today.

More than 2,500 people applied to work at a new Tesco store in north Shropshire, which is due to open later this year creating 140 jobs.

Up to 20 jobs could be created after a nationwide fashion retailer announced it was moving into Welshpool. The firm, Mackays, trades using the name M&Co.

Ludlow’s former Woolworths store is expected to reopen as a Spar shop in autumn this year, it has emerged. The supermarket chain is gearing up for the relaunch in September.

Nearly 100 jobs have been saved at a Mid Wales factory after a management buyout.

Banking giant Lloyds is set to close its 164 Cheltenham & Gloucester branches across the UK axing about 1,400 jobs, it was revealed today.

More than 20 jobs are being created in Telford with the opening of a state-of-the-art learning complex.

Jobs are set to be created in Oswestry after two industrial units were snapped up.

Unemployment rose by quarter of a million in the first three months of the year, official figures showed today.

Up to 300 jobs are to be created at the site of collapsed Shifnal firm Wrekin Construction, which has been sold to a civil engineering company, it was revealed today.

Up to 30 jobs will be created in Market Drayton after bosses at a national discount giant announced plans to open a store in the town next month.

Thirty jobs will be created and 31 extra nursing beds provided in a multi-million pound development at a Shropshire care home.

More than 130 jobs at two Shropshire companies are today hanging in the balance as the recession continues to squeeze the county’s economy.