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  • Funding available to help local groups get greener
    The latest round of a community benefit fund has opened for applications, to help local groups reduce their carbon emissions, become more energy efficient or improve local biodiversity. Local charity, voluntary and community groups in Telford and Wrekin [more...]
  • Telford Businesses urged to embrace Shropshire’s multi-billion pound construction programme
    Construction businesses from across Shropshire and beyond have been urged to play their part in helping to deliver a multi-billion pound programme of projects planned for the region. Plans to regenerate Shrewsbury’s Riverside area and the flagship [more...]
  • “So happy and settled here” says Keith in Dawley
    Residents will soon be moving into a further five Telford & Wrekin Home properties which have been extensively renovated by the council. Telford & Wrekin Homes is the council’s latest housing initiative which aims to breathe new life into [more...]
  • Embankment work on target for opening this week
    Pete Donovan, Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery Manager at Network Rail has stated that teams are just completing the final works prior to handing back the infrastructure and the railway on Friday morning just before start of service. He went on to say [more...]
  • Bargain bus travel at 50p a trip
    To celebrate the arrival of an award-winning public transport app, Telford & Wrekin Council is cutting the cost of bus travel. For one week only, the cost of a single journey – on council-funded bus routes only – will drop to just fifty [more...]
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  • the telford squidOn the Trail of the Telford Squid
    Every once in a while, you hear about some tunnels that lead from some old manor house to a nearby church or somesuch. More often than not, it’s complete hogwash but near Telford Shopping Centre there is such a tunnel. […]
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  • History: The Return to Nature c1976
    This newspaper cutting from 1976, explains the early work to reclaim the industrial wasteland around Telford including the start of the development of Dale End Park at Coalbrookdale. […]
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  • Glimpse into 60s Telford
    A series of scanned in slides from […]
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