The entrepreneur behind the purchase of the Wrekin ruby for £8,000 believes the gemstone could eventually be worth up to £2 million.

The businessman behind the purchase of the Wrekin ruby for £8,000 believes the gemstone could eventually be worth up to £2m. Also, Telford Tigers have been given the backing of Business Minister Ian Lucas.

Severn Trent Water has officially opened a new base in the offices previously owned by controversial building firm Wrekin Construction.

The Wrekin Ruby gemstone – exchanged for £11 million worth of shares in doomed firm Wrekin Construction – has been sold for £8,010, administrators said today.

Shropshire businesses are in the news with Business Editor Amy Bould providing updates on ongoing troubles at Galliers and Wrekin Construction.

A judge has awarded Wrekin Construction workers nearly £2 million in unpaid wages after finding they were not consulted properly before being made redundant.

Final bids for the jewel dubbed the Wrekin Ruby, listed among the assets of collapsed Shropshire firm Wrekin Construction, were being submitted today.

This is the complex business world of former Wrekin Construction chairman David Unwin.

Businessman David Unwin claims he “lost almost everything” after taking on the Wrekin Group in 2007, only to see the company go into administration in March this year with the loss of more than 500 jobs.

The man in charge of a Shropshire construction giant which collapsed with the loss of more than 500 jobs has claimed he could have been a victim of fraud.

The story behind the collapse of Shropshire firm Wrekin Construction and its ruby gemstone will come under the spotlight tonight.

Shropshire’s controversial Quantum Leap statue was unveiled at a cost of £450,000 this week, to honour the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin. Our podcast team considers its merits in this week’s Sunday Supplement.

The company which bought Wrekin Construction two years ago has gone into liquidation following the collapse of the Shropshire construction firm.

Three companies connected to collapsed construction firm Wrekin have gone into liquidation, including one which owed the Shifnal group more than £500,000.

The company which bought Wrekin Construction two years ago is to be placed into liquidation following the collapse of the Shifnal-based firm.

Wrekin Group chairman David Unwin’s business empire was faltering today as two more of his companies were heading for liquidation following the collapse of the Shifnal construction firm.

The pension scheme for Wrekin Construction workers is claiming nearly £25 million from the collapsed company – bringing the total amount owed to creditors to more than £40 million, administrators revealed today.

Up to 300 jobs are to be created at the site of collapsed Shifnal firm Wrekin Construction, which has been sold to a civil engineering company, it was revealed today.

Hopes were growing today that at least some of the 410 people thrown out of work by the collapse of Wrekin Construction could be given new jobs.

Nearly £21 million is owed to more than 1,000 creditors of collapsed Shifnal firm Wrekin Construction and the value of its mysterious ruby gemstone may never be known.

An online auction of more than 40 vehicles belonging to Wrekin Construction is believed to have raised just over £95,000.

More than 40 vehicles belonging to the Wrekin Group are up for grabs to the highest bidder in an online auction.

Jewellery experts today poured scorn on reports collapsed Shropshire building firm Wrekin Construction was the owner of a ruby worth £11 million.