Telford Shopping Centre news, page 2


Star Picture competition needs your vote

Shropshire Star readers are being invited to vote for their favourite picture – and help one lucky photographer to win a £150 prize.


Enter our photo competition and you could win a Sony Nex-5

Entries have already started coming in for the Telford Open Photography competition, run by Telford Shopping Centre in partnership with the Shropshire Star.


Telford Town Centre evacuated in fire drill

Telford Shopping Centre was evacuated today leaving shoppers outside after alarms were triggered – but it turned out to be a fire drill.


Shropshire firms to encourage workers’ football fun

There’s no place to hide as the World Cup tournament kicks off a month of top-notch football so a host of Shropshire businesses, shops and cinemas are proving it’s better to get off the bench and get in on the act.


County careers convention – in pictures

A Shropshire Star exhibition promoting careers and training opportunities available in the county has been declared a huge success.


Stormtroopers visit centre

A Shropshire shopping centre took on the look of a Star Wars set when Stormtroopers and other characters from the George Lucas classics landed to herald a sci-fi convention.


Star pair cut ribbon at wedding fair

Shropshire’s new style stars Nat Blackbourn and Lauren Bason today officially opened one of the county’s largest wedding exhibitions.


D-Day for Asda plan to build superstore

A controversial scheme to build a giant Asda superstore on the site of the current Telford & Wrekin Council civic offices will go before planners tonight.


Asda’s store plans get nod for approval

Plans for a new Asda store on the site of Telford & Wrekin Council’s civic offices have been recommended for approval by council planning officers.


Star brings glamour to annual fundraiser

Telford was the shining town of Shropshire last night when TV star Gabrielle Drake arrived for the annual Tree of Light switch-on.


Asda rejects centre’s bid

Developers today launched a last-ditch bid to tempt supermarket giant Asda out of moving from Telford Shopping Centre.


Stavros Flatley to switch on lights

Greek dancing double act Stavros Flatley will switch on the Christmas lights in Telford this month.


New stores bring fresh hope

Shropshire appears to be emerging from the recession with a number of new stores opening up in the county’s main shopping centres.


Bada Bing, Telford

Reviewer’s rating **** The corner of Telford Shopping Centre where Bada Bing lies has never struck me as the ideal location for a pub, or even a restaurant, writes James Shaw.


It Asda be a truce

Telford & Wrekin Council and the developer behind a £1.2 billion revamp of Telford Town Centre today declared a truce in the war over a controversial deal to sell the council’s Civic Offices site to Asda.


Fashion comes to centre

Stylish summer fashion is lifting the credit crunch gloom at Telford Shopping Centre – watch our video here.


Centre’s fashion show – in pictures

Models have been strutting down the catwalk at a Shropshire shopping centre to showcase the latest in summer fashion.


Mall bosses will learn crowd lessons

Telford Shopping Centre bosses have vowed to learn the lessons of a chaotic public appearance by stars of Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor.


Band sparks mall frenzy

Telford Shopping Centre bosses were today forced to temporarily close the mall after thousands of people crammed in to watch performances by stars of Britain’s Got Talent and the X Factor.


Centre boss explains actions on ‘store wars’

The boss of Telford International Centre today spoke for the first time about why he has switched allegiance in the “store wars” battle over the future of the town centre.


£250m scheme to go on show

The huge £250 million transformation of Telford town centre will be unveiled to the public for the first time next week, council chiefs said today.

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