Albrighton Development Action Group (ADAG) is calling on people to get behind its latest fundraising push as it continues its bid to protect 52-hectares of green belt.

A major one-day music festival and a special evening with legendary ex-Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar have been quickly added to the local entertainment calendar, with organisers keen to reach the £20,000 target ahead of a potential first planning meeting decision later this year.

Telford shoppers are getting a brand-new Lidl just in time for Christmas, as the discount supermarket confirms its opening date. The new store on Rock Road will open its doors for the first time on Thursday, 27th November.

It’s good news for the residents of Allscot Meads who are currently without a local shop.

At last weeks  Wrockwardine Parish Council meeting, the chair informed the councillors that the promised One Stop convenience store had cancelled their plans to open a new store.

The Wharfage is closed to vehicles in preparation for the expected peak on Monday afternoon, which could see river levels rise to between 5.0m and 5.6m.

Businesses are open.

A handfull of trees that fell on roads were quickly swept away by council teams, although some that have fallen on the Silkin Way through the town park, have forced organisers to cancel this mornings planned Park Run

At a meeting of Wrockwardine Parish Council this week, members were told by the clerk that the supplier of electricity for street lights had gone out of business. 

During a two-week online poll, more than 4,000 votes were cast, with 9 year old Amelia’s design scooping up the most support.

Amelia’s design will be raised on the flagpole at Southwater Square as part of the Telford Day celebrations on Saturday 29 November.

The separate by-elections in St Georges, Wellington and Oakengates will be held on November 20, with Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats fielding candidates in all three seats.

Reform UK and the Green Party will be standing in two of the three seats while an ‘Oakengates Independent Resident’ is also in the running.

The £20m development comprises a bistro, bar and an array of other amenities alongside 61 apartments and 16 bungalows.

A second urgent works enforcement notice has been slapped on a dilapidated historic hotel in Newport.

It is the third enforcement notice relating to the Grade II-listed Royal Victoria Hotel, in St Mary’s Street, since a complaint was recorded by Telford & Wrekin Council in January 2020.