More than 40 households are battling to use just seven parking spaces in a narrow street in Bridgnorth.

Moves to bring in private companies as partners in running some Shropshire Council services are a ‘bad deal’ for the taxpayer, a union leader has claimed.

A village play area and woodland park that cost tens of thousand of pounds to build had to shut due to flooding – only one day after it had officially opened.

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

Fears have been raised about who would foot the bill should a new company being set up by Shropshire Council to run a range of public services make a loss.

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.

Householders in Shrewsbury should be on alert after reports of a door-to-door sales scam, trading standards officials warned today.

Official statistics which maintain that there are no children going missing from Shropshire’s care homes are both unbelievable and fly in the face of common sense.

Children went missing from care homes in Shropshire nearly 250 times over three years – with one girl absconding from a care home in Telford 130 times in a 12-month period, shocking figures revealed today.

A row over a travellers’ site in the Shropshire countryside took a new twist after the occupants applied for planning permission to stay put – despite council bosses serving them with an injunction.

A large-scale egg production unit housing about 12,000 birds could be built in the Shropshire countryside after fresh proposals were unveiled.

Do me a favour – go and get a map. A road atlas will do. But it needs to be a map of the UK. Off you go. I’ll wait.

At last, a council which is leading the way with innovation, rather than being dragged down by institutional inertia.

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.

A new identity is to be created for Shrewsbury in a bid to bring tens of millions of pounds in extra tourism revenue to the town, it was revealed today.

Plans for the £4 million expansion of a care home in Shropshire – which is expected to create about 80 jobs – have been given the go-ahead.

A road in Oswestry which has been shut since last summer because of major works is on track to reopen in July.

The intention of Shropshire Council’s initiative in offering free swimming at various centres during the countdown to the Olympic Games is to encourage people to get fit, active, and involved in one of the most accessible and enjoyable of sports.

A taxi firm which operates in Shrewsbury and Telford has been ordered to remove all of its vehicle roof signs, after losing a battle with Shropshire Council.

BBC director-general Mark Thompson was today forced to say sorry to council chiefs – after a documentary wrongly claimed all public toilets in Shrewsbury had shut down.

Thirty applications have been made to hold street parties in Shropshire and Telford to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this summer, it was revealed today.

An innovative scheme to generate hydropower from a turbine in the River Rea in Shropshire has raised almost £85,000 of investment in a month, more than half its target.

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

Shropshire’s Labour leader has questioned the savings that will be made under a new deal to get a private multi-national firm to run five of the county’s leisure centres.

Plans to privatise a Shropshire market after 800 years could sound a death knell for the weekly event inside two years, angry traders claimed today.

Five of Shropshire’s biggest leisure centres are set to be taken over by a private firm.

Taxpayers are to subsidise the Theatre Severn to the tune of almost £700,000 – an increase on the amount paid in the last year, new figures revealed today.

Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski has launched a stinging attack on Shropshire Council over the cost of car parking in Shrewsbury.