by Lyn Taylor
SINGLE people need to earn a whopping £43,000 a year – twice the average county wage – to buy a starter home in Bridgnorth, a report has revealed. Getting a foot on the housing ladder is harder in the Bridgnorth District than anywhere in the county, says the draft housing strategy report for […]
NUMBERS of people using Bridgnorth Leisure Centre have rocketed, according to the latest figures. The total for the first six months of the current financial year was 92,130 — almost 7,000 up on last year’s figure over the same period of 85,342.
BRIDGNORTH’S only non-alcoholic youth bar has been given a crucial cash injection of more than £4,500. The money has come from a successful Three Peaks Challenge completed by Bridgnorth Baptist Church Men’s Group.
A busy Bridgnorth road will be closed to traffic for 12 hours on each of the next three Sundays to enable an electricity mains supply to be laid to the new Marks & Spencer ‘Simply Food’ store so that it can be open for Christmas. EON will be carrying out the work between 8.30am and […]
PLANS are in the pipeline for a taxi bay in Bridgnorth’s High Street — for evenings and Sundays only. The proposal for the space, which would double up during the day time as a loading bay, has been advertised by Shropshire County Council.
THE head of Bridgnorth Endowed School, Mrs Pam Chapman, is bowing out of her role at Christmas — but she won’t be spending much time with her feet up. After 32 years in teaching Mrs Chapman is taking early retirement, but plans to look for other opportunities to use her talents, possibly in the field […]
BRIDGNORTH district councillors have agreed to allocate £176,000 towards eight “excellent” projects in the area. The resources and finance committee approved £50,000 towards a range of Bridgnorth riverside enhancements, such as riverside railings.
DISTRICT councillors have agreed to find a £590,000 shortfall to enable a £750,000 Bridgnorth town centre enhancement scheme to go ahead. The shortfall for work in Whitburn Street and Northgate has been found from the original sale of land for the relief road to Sainsbury’s.
The cash injection was confirmed at a meeting of the council’s […]
THE identities of Broseley’s very own calendar girls and boys – artistically photographed in the buff for the town’s Christmas Lights Appeal – will be revealed tonight at the Victoria Hall.
TENANTS of a Bridgnorth industrial estate are worried for the future of their businesses because of the shake-up of Shropshire’s councils. They are seeking assurances over the future of the workshops they rent after they failed to receive their usual renewal option on the lease.
