Cash-strapped Walsall Council has come under fire for spending almost £20,000 on a public consultation into plans to cut jobs and services.
A vigil was being held in Telford tonight in solidarity with the victims of the Finsbury Park mosque attack.
Country’s busiest motorway might go through tunnel under third Heathrow runway as part of £14bn expansion
Planning has begun for a major revamp of a hospital's A&E department.
A Walsall dental surgery will finally be able to create new practice rooms after plans for an extension were given the go-ahead.
Country’s busiest motorway might go through tunnel under third Heathrow runway as part of £14bn expansion
A Shropshire education chief today said there was now a 'better chance than ever before' for the county's schools to get more money for their pupils following a shift in policy by the government. A Shropshire education chief today said there was now a 'better chance than ever before' for the county's schools to get more money for their pupils following a shift in policy by the government. Shropshire is one of the worst-funded areas in the country in terms of cash per pupil which local authorities receive from central government through the Dedicated Schools Grant. MPs and councillors have been campaigning for years over the 'unfair' system and have tried to lobby the government for a change in the way cash is distributed across the UK. The government is currently consulting on school funding reforms and David Taylor, director of people's services at Shropshire Council, said it could pave the way for increased cash for the county. [24link]
Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono has not appeared publicly since the deadly simultaneous attack that targeted Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday.
More work is to be carried out on a rock face near a Shropshire road after a number of landslides.
Wildlife bosses are resorting to raising the water levels at a popular Staffordshire nature reserve to help threatened wetland birds.
A businessman has been jailed for more than four years over a £1.3 million tax scam.
Most of a town-centre building has now been demolished as it is levelled to make way for a new £12.6 million health centre.
Building a second entrance at Shrewsbury's Meole Brace Retail Park has been rejected as "unfeasible and unviable" by consultants acting on behalf of its owners.
A nurse who gave a child the wrong vaccination has been struck off.
Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted the funding Shropshire children receive for their education is "unfair" and pledged to introduce a new national formula by 2016.
