Tuesday, 6th January 2009

Latest Shrewsbury stories

Three-storey super surgery

Proposals for a three-storey super surgery to serve more than 14,000 people in north Shrewsbury have been unveiled, the Chronicle can reveal.

Health and safety leaves tree bare

A Christmas tree has been standing bare outside the town’s train station for weeks – because staff couldn’t decorate it due to health and safety rule

Festive joy for hospital

New state-of-the-art dialysis machines have arrived early at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital – with half of them already being used to help treat patients in need.

Building firm in liquidation

A long-running Shrewsbury building company has gone into liquidation after nearly 90 years of service to the town – with the loss of up to 20 jobs.

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Two break-ins in 48 hours

Bosses of a day centre which offers help to the homeless say their work has been set back by six months following two break-ins in 48 hours.

Courtney gallops to £1,000 target

A village schoolgirl has smashed a £1,000 fundraising target for a national equine charity in less than four months.

Bog Visitor Centre may close

A popular tourist centre visited by 19,000 people this year will close on Boxing Day for good unless a co-ordinator and more committee members can be found to run it.

Empty homes at 3-year high

The number of empty homes in Shrewsbury is at a three-year high with 1,401 properties standing vacant around the borough, the Chronicle can exclusively reveal.

Pew removal strongly opposed

Plans to rip out Victorian pews from a 12th century church as part of a £940,000 building project have been opposed by national preservation chiefs, who have claimed it would be a ‘terrible waste’.

Couple scrap prize draw home

A couple trying to sell their home through a prize draw have been forced to scrap the competition two weeks before its closing date. Nick and Liz Turner, from Middletown, put their £500,000 seven-bedroom home up for sale in an online prize draw to try to sell it so they could move to France.