The demise of the first-time buyer has been "greatly exaggerated" with plenty of Shropshire homes within reach of prospective homeowners, according to a county estate agent.
Britain's beleaguered economy today suffered a double hammer blow with new figures revealing a sharp fall in mortgage lending and spiralling levels of personal debt. Britain's beleaguered economy today suffered a double hammer blow with new figures revealing a sharp fall in mortgage lending and spiralling levels of personal debt. The shocking extent of the UK's financial problems were revealed as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) labelled the level of overall debt as "disturbing". The prospect of a speedy improvement seems slim because the number of mortgages approved for house purchase has dived by more than 60 per cent during the past year to hit a new record low. New reports painted a picture of ordinary people awash in a sea of debt. Residents are unable to borrow for personal spending because banks are reluctant to lend, despite swingeing interest rate cuts. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the level of UK debt was disturbing. He said 2009 would be "a really bad year". Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
Goods worth £25,000, including 10 go-karts, were stolen from a track near Oswestry after raiders cut their way into the site.
The data, collected by the ONS from April 3 to May 3, is divided into chronic loneliness and lockdown loneliness.
Climate charity Possible said investing in coaches would be a ‘cheap and rapid way of shifting longer distance journeys from private cars’.
The number of burglaries has fallen by more than a quarter across the West Mercia Police area of operations, new figures show.
With less that a week to go before the start of the Premier League season Nicky Butler takes a look at how the redevelopment of the Stan Cullis stand is progressing.
Wolves' problems in front of goal continued when they were held to a goal-less draw by struggling Sheffield United at Molineux.
Cashpoint use in the Midlands is not expected to return to “anything like pre-pandemic levels”, according to UK ATM network Link.
The UK might be one of the richest and most developed nations in the world, but the health of UK PLC has seldom been poorer.
Worker bumble bees have been found to sacrifice their snooze times to look after the larvae.
Shropshire's two councils comfortably met stringent Government limits for the amount of waste being sent to landfill - despite developers putting forward controversial incinerators to deal with the county's waste. Shropshire's two councils comfortably met stringent Government limits for the amount of waste being sent to landfill - despite developers putting forward controversial incinerators to deal with the county's waste. A new report by the Environment Agency on Landfill Allowances and Trading Scheme (LATS) for 2009/10, published this month, shows both Shropshire Council and Telford & Wrekin Council sent much less waste to landfill than they were allowed to. Shropshire Council was nearly 20,000 tonnes below its allowance, while Telford & Wrekin Council was more than 3,000 tonnes under.
Shropshire households are using less gas than they were five years ago, according to latest figures.
The cost of axing more than 180 jobs during the shake-up of Shropshire's six major councils is £11.5 million, it was revealed today.
Dudley Council has set aside £400,000 to offer desperate residents emergency payments of at least £150.
