Businesses have objected to plans for a temporary outdoor skating rink in Telford town centre this summer over fears that it will attract anti-social behaviour.

Telford’s ice rink will close on May 27 for work on a £4 million refurbishment scheme to begin.

Telford’s new look ice rink will reopen in October after undergoing a £4 million transformation, council bosses revealed today.

A new £950,000 visitor centre – the first part of Telford’s £250 million Southwater redevelopment – has thrown open its doors to welcome members of the public.

A state-of-the-art visitor centre costing nearly £1 million will open its doors for the first time in Telford Town Park this weekend.

Telford could get a temporary outdoor ice rink this summer if plans are approved for the scheme.

A hooded gang of five, all believed to be just 14 years old, robbed a man in Telford Town Centre of cash, police said today.

Pizza Express, Nando’s and Premier Inn are among the top names coming to Telford as part of the town’s £250 million Southwater development, it was announced this afternoon.

It was not without a little pleasure that I read the report by the 60 members of the co-operative council that said Telford’s primary need is to create jobs and encourage businesses to base themselves here.

High Street giant Game today closed three stores in Shropshire as it laid off more than 2,000 people across the country.

This is the first glimpse of one of the centrepieces set to transform the heart of Telford as part of a £250 million regeneration of the town centre.

Developers who have clinched deals to run a hotel, bars and restaurants in Telford’s £250 million Southwater development will be unveiled within weeks, council bosses said today.

Part of a £250 million plan to transform Telford into one of the top nightspots in the region creating bars, restaurants, a hotel and a cinema have been approved.

Plans to transform Telford into one of the top nightspots in the region with a £250 million investment creating bars, restaurants, a hotel and a cinema took a giant step forward today.

Detailed plans for the next phase of work on the £250 million Southwater development in Telford town centre have been submitted to councillors.

This is the first glimpse of how a new multi-million pound development in Telford including an 11-screen cinema, hotel and restaurants will look.

Telford could get two new cinemas after plans were today unveiled for a 10-screen Odeon as the centrepiece of a multi-million pound shopping development in the town centre.

Bosses at Telford & Wrekin Council today have refused to rule out further jobs being lost as they unveiled their alternative budget proposals.

Demolition work today began on Telford Town Park’s visitor centre to make way for a new one as part of a £250 million redevelopment of the area.

A vow by Telford & Wrekin Council’s new Labour rulers to scrap the building of new civic offices will save the authority “tens of millions of pounds”, it was claimed today.

Millions of pounds due to be spent on a new “council palace” in Telford would be better spent on schools, nurses or the police, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on a visit to the county.

Work to transform Telford town centre has passed an important milestone.

Telford is to get a huge multi-screen cinema as part of the town’s £250 million Southwater development.

Plans have been submitted for the next phase of the £250 million Southwater development in Telford which will see the building of the centrepiece of the scheme.

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.

A new town library and civic offices complex is the key to kick-starting a £250 million redevelopment of Telford town centre, it was claimed today.

Council chiefs in Telford today claimed criticism of the massive £250 million Southwater development in the town was placing its very future – including thousands of potential jobs – in jeopardy.

Telford & Wrekin Council leader Andrew Eade has told feature writer Tracey O’Sullivan about the authority’s ambitious plans for the Southwater area.

Redevelopment work on Telford’s Southwater area has finally begun with the draining of a popular pool – but what do people living in the town think of the work?

The landmark Southwater Lake in Telford town centre is fast disappearing after contractors moved in to drain it ahead of huge redevelopment work to give the town a vibrant centre.