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  • Hospital is awarded funds to help avoid winter crisis

    AN overstretched accident and emergency department that treats people from Tenbury and the Teme Valley will receive an extra £2.5 million to help prepare for the winter. The money will help pay for the much-needed expansion of the Worcestershire

  • Cash injection is given to hospital

    LUDLOW MP Philip Dunne has welcomed the Government announcement of £6.3m for the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, to help improve patient care ahead of winter. The funding forms part of an additional £150 million to expand and upgrade 25 Accident and

  • Demand for action at accident 'blackspots.'

    TWO councillors from south Shropshire want to see action taken at road junctions that they say are highly dangerous and where there have been fatal accidents Heather Kidd, Shropshire councillor for Chirbury and Worthen, is demanding urgent action

  • Technical faults blamed for fire service falling short

    'TECHNICAL' issues” with GPS equipment and the central control system are contributing to a rise in the number of fire engines logged as missing an arrival time target, brigade officers say. Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service’s 2020-21 performance

  • Debates run into time trouble

    TIME limits on discussions at council meetings have been called a ‘travesty to democracy’ and is preventing councillors from being held to account, it has been claimed. Several opposition county councillors have criticised stringent time limits

  • Market town is punch drunk but fighting on

    TENBURY has suffered six months of anguish that no one could have expected or would want to see again. For some the Covid-19 pandemic was the final straw but for most the town is showing the resilience that it has needed over the past decade and