Plans to tear up the road layout around Telford shopping centre and install a new two-way traffic system were today welcomed by the town’s MP.

Three of Shropshire’s five parliamentary constituencies will change under new plans which have been drawn up by the Boundary Commission for England, it was revealed today.

MPs across Shropshire submitted their lowest ever claims for expenses in April and May this year, according to figures released today. The six regional MPs claimed £2,060.95 – or £33.79 per day.

Almost all Shropshire MPs could find themselves fighting radically revised constituencies during the next general election, it has been claimed.

MPs across Shropshire cost the taxpayer £533,205 in the last year.

Shropshire could retain all five of its MPs in the biggest review of constituency boundaries in electoral history, it has been suggested.

MPs’ expenses for the first two months of this year, including the amount they racked up on their taxpayer-funded credit cards, were being laid bare for the first time today.

The bill to combat land slippage and instability at Shropshire’s World Heritage Site is in excess of £80 million, Telford MP David Wright was due to tell ministers today.

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government is working, will last and survive its full five-year lifetime, Shropshire’s Tory MPs declared today on its one-year anniversary.

Tory Philip Dunne and Labour’s David Wright were today putting their political differences behind them to warn voters in Shropshire against changing Britain’s electoral system.

Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £18,554.29 in expenses during November and December 2010, while more than £3 million was paid out nationally figures revealed today.

“Silly talk” by former Labour leadership candidate David Miliband could put the creation of up to 2,000 jobs in Telford from the £250 million Southwater development at risk, it was warned today.

Sikhs from Shropshire today travelled to Parliament to lobby politicians to challenge “disrespectful” new EU laws which they claim are forcing turbans to be manhandled and removed at airports.

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls asked Shropshire residents to help shape the new Labour manifesto during a visit to the county today.

Telford MP David Wright has criticised the Government over rises in fuel VAT, claiming the increase has hit county families hard and should be reversed immediately.

Cuts to children’s services in Telford will run 20 per cent deeper than the national average, the town’s MP David Wright claimed today.

Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £23,343 in expenses during September and October 2010, figures revealed today.

Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £23,343 in expenses during September and October 2010, new figures revealed today.

A Shropshire MP today said it was “crucial” front-line police officers were protected as new figures showed there are nearly 150 fewer officers in the West Mercia area than a year ago.

Council chiefs in Telford have splashed out almost £2 million on a planned new library and civic offices in the town before a single brick has even been laid, it was revealed today.

The Government today promised to reveal before the end of the month whether it will bankroll the multi-million pound scheme to combat land slippage and instability at Shropshire’s World Heritage Site.

Daniel Kawczynski and Tom Taylor, who worked closely together when the latter was chief executive of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, have teamed up again to fly the flag for British farm produce.

Telford MP David Wright is backing a fellow Labour MP who secured an adjournment debate on consumer credit regulation.

Shropshire’s Telford MP David Wright has retained his post as a Labour whip in Ed Miliband’s first shadow team.

Protesters rode through Telford on an open-top double decker bus today in a show of opposition to rumoured Government proposals to cut public sector jobs and pay.

A last ditch plea to Royal Bank of Scotland bosses to save up to 500 jobs facing the axe in Telford has fallen on deaf ears, it was claimed today.

Ed Miliband has told Labour faithful in Shropshire that he is the man to lead their party and challenge the Tory-Lib Dem coalition Government. He expressed his fears over the impact of current spending cuts.

TELFORD MP David Wright today demanded a meeting with Royal Bank of Scotland bosses after they announced up to 500 jobs are to go in the town.

Plans for a £70 million extension of the M6 Toll Road to link with Shropshire’s M54 have been put on hold, a Government minister has revealed.

MPs from Shropshire and Mid-Wales claimed more than £110,000 in expenses during the last six months of 2009, according to new figures published  by Parliament.