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Heather Kidd is the new leader of Shropshire Council

Social care focus as Lib Dems control Shropshire County Council

A council has been formally handed over to the Liberal Democrats after 16 years of Conservative control. Shropshire County Council held its first full council meeting on Thursday at the Guildhall in Shrewsbury and the Lib Dems took charge as they have 42 councillors following victory in the local elections. The Conservative group, which was previously in control ever since the council became a unitary authority in 2009, now only […]

May 23, 2025

Worcestershire

Reform UK takes over leadership of Worcestershire County Council

Reform UK has taken over the leadership of Worcestershire County Council for the first time, following its success in the local elections. At a meeting on Thursday, party leader Joanne Monk was sworn in as council leader, and she went on to announce a new cabinet of Reform councillors. The council has no overall majority, after Reform UK won 27 seats - two short of the 29 needed to secure […]

May 23, 2025

World

Trump uses White House meeting to confront South African president over farmers

President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to confront South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing his country of failing to address the killing of white farmers. “People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety,” said Mr Trump, who at one point dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a communist politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that includes lyrics about killing a farmer. […]

May 21, 2025

Shropshire

Lloyds Bank closures ‘a nightmare for people’

The closure of branches of Lloyds Bank was be "a nightmare for local people", one resident has said. Another said she does not find using the internet easy and would face a long journey to use another branch. She said people were disgusted at the closures. Lloyds said the number of people using its branches in Ludlow and Bridgnorth, which are due to close on Tuesday, had fallen and only […]

May 21, 2025

World

Trump: Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks to begin ‘immediately’

US President Donald Trump has said Russia and Ukraine will “immediately” begin ceasefire negotiations after what he described as an “excellent” call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that lasted more than two hours. Mr Trump also spoke to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in the hope of making progress toward a ceasefire. “The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, […]

May 20, 2025

World

Former US president Biden diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said on Sunday. Mr Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone. “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” […]

May 19, 2025

World

Israel’s military announces start of ‘extensive’ new ground operations in Gaza

Israel launched “extensive” new ground operations in the Gaza Strip while airstrikes in a new offensive killed at least 103 people, including dozens of children, overnight and into Sunday, hospitals and medics said, and forced northern Gaza’s main hospital to close. Airstrikes killed more than 48 people in and around the Palestinian territory’s southern city of Khan Younis, some hitting houses and tents sheltering displaced people, according to Nasser Hospital, […]

May 18, 2025

Shropshire

A Shropshire back garden’s wildlife beauty captured over decade

A photographer has spent a decade carrying out "garden safaris" in order to capture the diversity and beauty of Britain's back garden wildlife. The images, including battling birds and squabbling squirrels, showed just what could be found "under our noses", said Andrew Fusek Peters. "I wanted to celebrate the everyday stories and reveal the beauty of our birds, mammals and insects that live alongside us," the Shropshire photographer added. Hundreds […]

May 18, 2025

Worcestershire

More services operate from Worcestershire train station

Direct rail services to Bristol and to Edinburgh are to start operating from Worcestershire Parkway station. The services, which begin on Sunday, will connect the station to Yorkshire, the North East, Glasgow, Dundee and the South West. There will also be two trains per hour running to Birmingham New Street. The station, at Norton, near Worcester, opened in 2020 operating to London Paddington on Great Western Railway services and a […]

May 18, 2025

Social care focus as Lib Dems control Shropshire County Council

Reform UK takes over leadership of Worcestershire County Council

Trump uses White House meeting to confront South African president over farmers

Lloyds Bank closures ‘a nightmare for people’

Trump: Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks to begin ‘immediately’

Former US president Biden diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer

Israel’s military announces start of ‘extensive’ new ground operations in Gaza

A Shropshire back garden’s wildlife beauty captured over decade

More services operate from Worcestershire train station

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