Controversial plans to charge traders £50 for street displays in Wellington have been scrapped. Telford & Wrekin Council still intends to introduce permits to control the number and size of stalls.

Shropshire was on rush-hour snow alert today as forecasters warned that the journey home could be hit by a fresh artic blast.

Government ministers have awarded Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin more than £4 million as its share of a £432 million scheme to boost economic growth and increase house building.

Oh we do like to be in Dawley . . . This saucy seaside prop was just one of the items uncovered when volunteers set about clearing up a much-loved town hall.

Telford & Wrekin Council has announced that it was pulling out of a joint agreement with Shropshire Council to provide high speed broadband to the rural area of Telford.

Council leaders in Telford today moved to lobby the Ministry of Defence in a bid to attract a military centre of excellence to the town.

A month-long consultation into controversial plans to slash opening hours at libraries across Telford & Wrekin was launched today.

Planning chiefs at Telford & Wrekin Council have been criticised after diggers turned up to work on land earmarked for a £21 million supermarket in Newport, but which has not got planning permission.

Two members of staff at Telford & Wrekin Council have resigned and another was disciplined after investigations uncovered breaches of confidentiality, it emerged this afternoon.

Each person in the Shropshire Council area is paying more than £74 every year towards the cost of council staff and member pensions, it was today claimed.

Plans for a plant to deal with rubbish in Telford, which supporters claim could bring £2 million a year into council coffers, could be scrapped, it was claimed today.

Telford Ice Rink could have been nothing more than an ‘embarrassing, empty, flooded shed’ if it had it been signed over from the council to a private firm, it has been claimed.

A campaign was launched in Telford today calling for a new motorway link between the M54 and the M6.

The first ever managing director of Telford & Wrekin Council has officially taken over at the helm of the authority.

Free swimming for the over-60s and those on benefits in Telford will be scrapped under cost-cutting plans being proposed by council bosses.

Hundreds of people have signed a petition supporting a trader who was ordered to remove his displays of fruit and veg from outside his store in Telford.

Sainsbury’s has clinched a multi-million pound deal to become the operator of a huge proposed store in Newport, which would create 400 jobs, it was revealed today.

Peacemakers at Wellington Town Council are to help resolve a row over on-street displays in a bid to keep trade flourishing in the town.

New wall-mounted street lights are to replace lampposts in parts of Newport next month as part of a bid to ‘de-clutter’ the town.

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

Residents in Telford are being urged to attend a public consultation on the council’s proposals to make almost £20 million in savings this year.

Civic leaders in Telford have issued guarantees that Telford’s town centre park will be protected against development for future generations as part of plans to commemorate the 2012 Olympics and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Telford & Wrekin Council has spent more than £50,000 on translation services in the past four years.

More than 30 restaurants, pubs, takeaways and other establishments serving food in Telford have been rated for health and hygiene as part of the council’s Scores on the Doors scheme.

Newport’s community recycling centre could close as part of more than 200 cuts to services Telford & Wrekin Council is considering in a bid to save £9 million.

A new managing director has been appointed at Telford & Wrekin Council – the first post of its kind at the authority.

A new Tesco Express food store will be the centrepiece of the first phase of the regeneration in Hadley – and be the supermarket giant’s fifth Telford store.

Closing a local information point in Telford is likely to save the borough council £22,000 a year.

Gritters were out in Telford and Shropshire overnight as temperatures fell to near freezing point.

Procedures at Telford & Wrekin Council are being ‘tightened up’ after a former employee dumped confidential files in a bin.