A war of words has broken out between Shropshire’s political leaders, with Tory Keith Barrow accusing his Labour counterpart Alan Mosley of a ‘puerile attitude’ towards council plans to create a company to run services.

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.

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.

Politicians and councillors from throughout Shropshire turned out in force to pay their respects at the funeral of former Oswestry mayor Doris Barrow.

A massive consultation is to take place across Shropshire on plans to allow private firms to help run more council services.

A range of public services in Shropshire will be run by a new profit-making company after councillors voted through controversial plans – just days after they were revealed for the first time.

Shropshire Council would face an ‘armageddon scenario’ in its present guise if further Government cuts are announced, it has been claimed.

Hundreds of jobs have been axed at Shropshire Council in the last 12 months and the authority is planning to cull dozens more this year, new figures revealed today.

A ‘hardworking’ and ‘selfless’ former Oswestry mayor who was a member of one of the county’s most prominent political families has died at the age of 87.

Shropshire Council could become one of the first money-making authorities in the country in a deal which would see some services run for profit in partnership with private firms.

Shropshire Council’s decision to…how to put this…? Well, to frankly listen to me and open up Meole Brace park and ride for football fans attending Shrewsbury Town night matches appears to have been vindicated

The arrival of a new £150 million shopping centre in Shrewsbury heralds the beginning of further investment into the town, the leader of Shropshire Council claimed today.

The leader of Shropshire Council has blamed Britain’s 24-hour drinking laws for late night problems in town centres.

Shropshire Council slashed more than £32 million from its budget over the past 12 months in unprecedented reductions, chiefs will reveal today.

Libraries have to respond to changes in technology if they are to survive in the long-term, the leader of Shropshire Council has said.

The bid to restore Shrewsbury’s direct rail link to London will come under the microscope when councillors discuss the issue at a meeting tonight.

Drug users will not get free use of Shropshire Council gyms and swimming pools, the authority’s leader made clear today.

Shropshire Council spent nearly £350,000 on consultants last year, new figures revealed today.

Top-level talks will take place this week between Shrewsbury Town and Shropshire Council over providing parking for supporters of the League Two club next season.

Outrage greeted today’s news that Shropshire taxpayers must pay £820,000 to fund the Shrewsbury incinerator appeal.

The final stage of Shropshire Council’s £86 million programme of budget savings has been approved – but members have been warned that more cutbacks could lie ahead.

Two reports illustrate the strenuous efforts of the county council to reduce the deficit, this we are told its priority target.

At least 100 jobs will be axed and dozens of services across Shropshire hit by widespread cuts under plans to save almost £25 million over the next two years.

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.

Shropshire Council leader Keith Barrow today defended the authority’s record on job losses in the wake of ‘huge spending cuts by the Government’, after it was revealed hundreds of posts have been cut this year.

The loss of any more public sector jobs across Shropshire will be a disaster for the county’s economy bringing with it a vicious downturn in the economy, union officials claimed today.

Shropshire Council says it will save money by clamping down on the number of conferences and events that its members can attend each year.

Shropshire Council’s bid to save £85 million by 2015 is hitting ordinary people and town and parish councils across the county hard, a meeting heard.

Shropshire Council has taken steps to clean up its high-pay culture – including getting rid of assistant directors who were paid up to £90,000 a year, its leader Keith Barrow vowed today.

Claims that cuts to the salaries of staff at Shropshire Council was a ‘precursor’ for the privatisation of the county’s public sector are ‘bonkers’, its leader has said.