THE number of shoppers visiting Shrewsbury’s Darwin Centre in the week leading up to Christmas was up by more than 37,000 on the same time last year, new figures have revealed.
The week starting December 19 saw more than 262,000 people throng into the shopping centre – a 15 per cent increase on the number of […]
Councillors have backed the launch of an ecofriendly car club which will ease congestion problems in Shrewsbury town centre.
Groups are currently in talks about setting up the scheme which would see a pool of cars provided for people who do low to medium mileage. They say the initiative, the first of its kind in Shropshire, […]
Families in Shrewsbury are facing a long waiting list for housing and living in severely overcrowded conditions, it has been revealed.
Beneficiaries of a town toy run delivering presents to sick children have spoken of their disappointment after it was announced the scheme has been scrapped.
The widow of a founding member of the Chronicle’s Lingen Davies Cancer Centre Appeal has spoken of her concern at new plans to merge the two cancer wards at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, saying it would go against everything for which the appeal stands.
Shrewsbury Town Council’s award-winning horticultural services could rake in millions of pounds next year as other local authorities call upon the department’s expertise.
Angry residents in Bicton Heath say they are being kept in the dark over plans for a new residential care home for teenagers in their cul-de-sac.
Young people in Shrewsbury are struggling to pay for driving lessons with some putting off learning altogether, as the cost of a first year’s motoring rockets to £12,000.
The site of a former pub in Shrewsbury is set to be transformed into a Tesco store, in a move which has angered town traders.
Street pastors will be out in Shrewsbury by Christmas to protect vulnerable night-time revellers, church leaders have revealed.