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December 12, 2024

Abusive customers and thousands without bookings - how recycling centre booking system is working so far

David Chadwick Presses Labour Over Extraordinary Ambulance Waiting Times

Dyfed-Powys PCC launches 2025/26 precept consultation

See the cuts planned to save Shropshire Council £8.5 million

'I will not resign' - Councillors at loggerheads over 'illegally' felled Shrewsbury oak tree and 'technical breach'

£50 rewards on offer for Telford and Wrekin residents who shop dog owners not clearing up their pets' mess

Knighton Town Council has run through almost all of the available cashflow and will just about make it through the year.

December 11, 2024

Council asked to approve movement strategy for Shrewsbury

MP highlights need to tackle rural crime and antisocial behaviour

POWYS: Presteigne hall transfer

Kington residents are being asked to help shape the future of library services in the county.

Watch as angry farmers trundle around Shrewsbury in anti-Government go-slow tractor protest

POWYS: Storm workers thanked

Farmers' tractor protests planned for Shropshire and London as row over inheritance tax rages on

Councillors must do more research on their ideas before bringing them to Kington Town Council, the Deputy Mayor has said.

December 10, 2024

MP calls for more government support over Ironbridge flooding impact

Shrewsbury MP and Mayor celebrate restaurant being named the best at Curry Awards

Power cables in Radnorshire should be buried as in the Cotswolds, says MP

POWYS: Smartphone School Ban

Kington Town Council would be broadly in favour of allowing remote access to its meetings.

Three requests for funding from national organisations have been noted by Rhayader Town Council.

Speed limit of Shropshire road dubbed one of 'Midlands's most dangerous' to be reduced next week

Veteran Shropshire Conservative councillor died in a drug dealer's home

December 9, 2024

POWYS: Recycling target missed

A council is asking for support for a petition to keep a post office open

Council to consult over recycling

Llandrindod Wells library to close ahead of move to museum building

'Town-centre living' progress with homes being built for 'new community' in Telford Town Centre

Health services and housing were on the agenda at an MP's latest surgery

Safer Communities Award success for Powys Ukrainian Resettlement Team

'Sheep won't mind' new solar farm in Whitchurch, says doctor

Residents object to flat plans for pub which Shropshire town is named after

Shropshire MPs Column - the latest from the county's representatives in Westminster

December 6, 2024

Councillors call for answers over Shropshire relief road funding

Cancelled bus service set to leave school students stranded

Shrewsbury relief road project 'not cost effective' for tackling pollution, campaigners warn after new report

Leader delivers fiery rejection of 'rumours' Shropshire Council wants to sell its golf club

December 5, 2024

Installation of 70 electric car charging points in Telford & Wrekin starting this month

Are wheels coming off rail nationalisation?

Powys councillors to consider call to hand Crown Estates to Welsh Government

December 4, 2024

'What do you know that they don't?' - Senior councillor hits back at relief road critics 'holding Shrewsbury back'

Watch: Striking Shrewsbury college teachers chant 'pay up' as they demand 'justice' over wages

Public use of leisure centre at the birthplace of modern Olympics under threat

Bridgnorth Town Council backs petition to save historic building in 'dangerous state of disrepair'

Peter Rhodes on American dates, the afterlife and the perils of political downfall

December 3, 2024

Further relief road delays as full business case pushed to next year

A Builth Wells town councillor calls for better communication to benefit all

Conservative councillors resign to sit as independents ahead of launch of new political party

MPs column - Shrewsbury MP Julia Buckley reflects on historic vote on assisted dying law

Shropshire MP tells Parliamentary debate on bereavement about the death of his father when he was eight

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