Shropshire Council workers looked set to strike today, Thursday, despite last-minute talks held between union bosses and council chiefs to avoid a walk out.
SHREWSBURY is suffering from a lack of identity and its tourism industry needs to be brought into the 21st century, a report by leading experts has warned.
OLDER people in Shrewsbury owed an average of £25,800 on credit cards, loans and other unsecured debts last year, according to a leading debt charity.
FLEXIBLE parking rates will be introduced at a multi-storey car park in Shrewsbury to attract more shoppers into the town centre, it has been revealed.
Pupils, parents and staff battling to save Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School have lost their fight after Shropshire Council unanimously agreed to close the building in 2013.
Parents will pull their children out of the Wakeman and home educate them following the council’s decision to close the building, it is claimed.
The director of a skaters club at Shrewsbury Sports Village has claimed he may be forced to quit the venue after losing business as a result of irregular opening hours.
Taxpayers will have to foot a bill for £1 million after the cost of Shrewsbury’s controversial Quantum Leap sculpture more than doubled.
Fears have been raised that mobile traders could swamp the town centre using a peddlers’ licence – despite a council clause prohibiting them from selling within the river loop.
Key areas of the River Severn in Shrewsbury will have railings put up in a bid to cut the number of deaths in the water, it has been announced.