Transport and Logistics Network
The Government’s financial support for businesses trying to survive the UK energy crisis is a welcome gesture, but the Energy Bill Relief Scheme is at best a short term fix to a problem that many businesses have been facing for years, is the message f…
Alex Smith from Andrew Dixon & Company, Peter Glover, managing director at Motus Vehicle Solutions, Liz Lowe, head of estates at Morris Property, and Grant Williamson, training and business development manager at Motus Vehicle Solutions
Train…
More than 25 new jobs are up for grabs at one of Shropshire’s oldest manufacturers this weekend.
Corbetts the Galvanizers is holding a special open day on Saturday September 10th for people looking for work or a change in career, with shopfloor operati…
A business owner has described her heartbreak as she is forced to close down her beloved chip shop in Shropshire. Sophie Hodgkinson and her partner Bledi Piperi own Ye Olde Victorian fryer, in Telford.
But since they got the keys in October last year, …
A family has told of their heartbreak after a beloved dad died of kidney cancer ten years after doctors lost a scan showing a mass on his organ. It was then left to grow for a decade instead of being treated.
Michael Lane, 50, died in May last year jus…
A Facebook post warning people about a serial killer on the loose in Dundee is false and appears to be part of a wider hoax.
The post says: “There’s a serial killer or abductor who is currently hunting in Dundee, my friend was almost taken by him…
An air ambulance was called to Shropshire after a man got his leg stuck in farm machinery. Firefighters were also called to the scene in Humber Lane, Telford.
Crews used high-pressure air bags to help free the man’s leg so that he could be treated by m…
The protest caused long tailbacks
Andy Carloman, who runs Telford based Total Property Care, organised a convoy under the national banner Stand up to Fuel Prices UK Wide which travelled slowly from Shifnal Services to junction 1 of the M54 and th…
Police accompanied those taking part in the protest along the M54
A number of cars, trucks and vans left Telford Services at around 7am and drove slowly along the M54 from Junction 4 towards Junction 1 for Cannock, before heading back west, retur…
Lee griffin and Andy Carloman at the start of the fuel protest along the M54
The go-slow convoys are just two of a number of demonstrations being held across the country as average petrol and diesel prices close in on £2 a litre.
On the M54 pro…