Around 50 jobs are to be created at two new developments in Shropshire, one in Telford and one in Shawbury, it emerged today.

National DIY chain Screwfix took on 13 new members of staff to work at a new store in Telford – only for bosses to sack them on their first day when the lease fell through on a new unit in the town, it was revealed today.

Security has been drafted in to safeguard thousands of Easter eggs which will be donated to children across Shropshire.

Two companies from Shropshire have been named in a new list of the fastest-growing businesses in Britain.

A Shropshire industrial estate which was dubbed a “fly-tippers’ paradise” has been transformed after workers fed up with the constant mess decided to clean it up.

More than 40 businesses have joined forces with police to stamp out crime on a Telford industrial estate by launching a scheme which they hope to roll out across the borough.

Telford’s Fitness First gym is to close at the end of June putting the jobs of up to 20 workers in jeopardy, it was revealed today.

Trade unions and workers at a Shropshire deliveries depot have entered negotiations with bosses over possible redundancies, it was revealed today.