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Megan Jones

Community News reporter

Community News reporter covering Shropshire.

March 30, 2025

The latest data has revealed storm overflows in Shropshire were dumping sewage into waterways for a record number of hours last year

Revealed: The alarming number of hours raw sewage was released into waterways in the West Midlands and Shropshire

News|13 hours ago

March 28, 2025

A flyover at the Shropshire County Show in 2023

Lancaster Bomber flypast expected for county show in Shrewsbury

March 19, 2025

Carrie Hope Fletcher at Calamity Jane. Photo: Birmingham Hippodrome

Review: Carrie Hope Fletcher makes whip-crackin' lead in Calamity Jane at Birmingham Hippodrome

Theatre & Comedy|Mar 19

I visited the Shropshire market town of Newport where locals say there's everything you could want

March 17, 2025

Photo: Bridgnorth safer neighbourhood team (SNT)

38 dogs and five horses seized from 'puppy farm' near Bridgnorth

March 14, 2025

Ryan Twardun, 32. Photo: West Mercia Police

'He is a dangerous individual': New photographs released of man wanted by police after assault in Newport

Councillor Peter Scott, Capgemini's Dale Pritchard, Ruth Corrigan and Councillor Tim Nelson with Capgemini staff and other volunteers

5,500 bluebells planted in park to boost biodiversity and bring some colour to Newport

The former farm buildings at High Grosvenor. Photo: Google

Bridgnorth company plans to build indoor golf simulator and bar in former farm building

March 13, 2025

'Someone else will die': Renewed calls for speed cameras after fatality at A41 accident blackspot from Cosford to Whitchurch

March 9, 2025

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service attended to the unattended bonfire in Bridgnorth this afternoon. Photo: Sam Bagnall

Firefighters battle 100 tonne hay bale blaze near Bridgnorth

A memo written in the Newport Parish Register by Thomas Munk, with transcript. Shropshire Archives/Newport History Society

The 'Great Fire' that changed Newport forever

March 6, 2025

Photo: Albrighton Fire Station

Cat stuck up 60-foot tree for three days is rescued by firefighters

March 5, 2025

Diamond Bus

Bridgnorth-to-Kidderminster bus service deemed 'commercially unviable' will continue after funding boost

School’s out for teachers as students take over Newport's Burton Borough

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Newport. Photo: Cunliffes

Repair works 'essential' to preserving Grade II listed Newport church battling wet rot and Deathwatch beetles

March 4, 2025

Still from the CCTV footage shared by Wadokai England/Mairi Kerin

'My martial arts skills stopped a robbery - and I did it all in brand new heels'

February 28, 2025

Surface dressing in north Shropshire

41 Shopshire roads set to be surface dressed this summer - some requiring road closures

February 27, 2025

TELFORD COPYRIGHT Mike Sheridan - Joanna Porebna and Paulina Kurstak from Masovia Craft Bakery in Wellington on "Fat Thursday"(thusty czwartek), photographed on New Street, Wellington, Telford on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

Fat Thursday: Wellington bakery celebrates Polish holiday with 'doughnut day'

February 26, 2025

A series of closures are planned to allow for £3m of repair work on the M54

Work to begin this week on M54 repairs which will close motorway between Telford and Wolverhampton for eight weekends

February 24, 2025

Photo: Bridgnorth Fire Station

Witnesses wanted after 'head-on' crash near Bridgnorth sees five people taken to hospital

February 23, 2025

Wigwig, New Invention, lynx and midges - the origins of some of Shropshire's weird and wonderful place names

Shropshire|Feb 23

February 20, 2025

Volunteers wanted to help plant 5,500 bluebells in Newport park

February 19, 2025

Photo: West Mercia Police

Market Drayton driver admits having a 'few drinks' after police notice 'poor' driving

Market Drayton|Feb 19

February 15, 2025

Joy as Newport community café celebrates fifth birthday

February 13, 2025

A series of closures are planned to allow for £3m of repair work on the M54

M54 repairs costing £3m to close motorway for eight full weekends

February 12, 2025

'Long delays' after M54 crash between Albrighton and Wolverhampton involving cars and a bus

February 10, 2025

The youth club on Innage Lane, Bridgnorth. Photo: Google

Racist graffiti sprayed onto youth club in Bridgnorth as spate of hate messages continues

Rushbury, Shropshire. Photo: Peter Steggles

Could snow hit the West Midlands this February? Met Office reveals freezing weather forecast

February 5, 2025

Natalie Davis, left, with her daughter Chloe, 26, who has supported her mum throughout her journey and will be walking with her

Newport mum felt like she 'won the lottery' with treatable blood cancer diagnosis

February 3, 2025

LAST COPYRIGHT NATIONAL WORLD STEVE LEATH 31/01/25Pics in Bridgnorth at Oldbury Grange Nursing Home, where they are celebrating an improved rated: Good Inspection. In the wheelchairs are: Richard Cleal and Sheila Berry, and in no particular order and residents and staff: Jamie Gibb, Val Cox, Wilfred Pritchard, Bronwyn Evans, Maggie Bateman, Louise Mclean, Dionne Leadbetter, Melanie Roadenhurst, Jodie Haines (Manager, in the cream fur), Mandy Bullock and Alison Glavey.

Care home manager 'incredibly proud' of turnaround after home that required improvement gets 'Good' rating

January 30, 2025

Ludlow Racecourse

Ludlow Racecourse owners reveal plans to build new bar, restaurant and changing room for jockeys

January 24, 2025

The bungalow on Greendale Close in Highley. Photo: Google

Children's home plan for three-bed bungalow in village near Bridgnorth

January 17, 2025

Hopes for new clubhouse and shop at luxury golf resort near Bridgnorth where Judas Priest star once lived

Bridgnorth|Jan 17

January 15, 2025

Traffic delays on M54 after crash on stretch between junctions for Albrighton and Wolverhampton

January 12, 2025

Race winner David Brewis from Sphinx Athletic in Coventry

In pictures: Sub-zero temperatures face West Midlands athletes as cross-country league visits Attingham Park

December 30, 2024

The site of the proposed car park. Photo: Google

Upgrade for lesser-used Wrekin footpath planned as decision on new pay and display car park looms

News|Dec 30, 2024

December 18, 2024

Photo: Beauty's Legacy

Appeal to reunite a heartbroken 13-year-old Bridgnorth boy with his missing dog in time for Christmas

Bridgnorth|Dec 18, 2024

December 17, 2024

Photo: Berrys/Zoopla

Smallholding near Newport which dates back to 1600s returns to the market with price slashed

News|Dec 17, 2024

December 16, 2024

Staffordshire firm slapped with £1m fine for 'transactions connected with VAT fraud'

Business|Dec 16, 2024

Mogul Diamonds, Albrighton. Photo: Google

Secondhand bookshop in Albrighton could be turned into home

News|Dec 16, 2024

December 13, 2024

Gemind Meteor shower tonight: Where to watch shooting stars in the West Midlands

News|Dec 13, 2024

December 11, 2024

Man, 19, charged over fatal hit-and-run in Dudley

News|Dec 11, 2024

November 26, 2024

Neach Hill house, near RAF Cosford, Shropshire. Photo: Planning application supporting document

Upmarket hotel plans for country villa that fell into disrepair and became ‘rave’ house are set for rejection

News|Nov 26, 2024

November 24, 2024

Flooding on the tracks between Shrewsbury and Birmingham. Photo: Nick Smith

Train line reopen after flooding on the tracks suspends services between Shrewsbury and Birmingham

News|Nov 24, 2024

November 19, 2024

The former Outdoor Focus store at Mere Park Garden Centre

Children's nursery plans for former outdoor shop at Newport garden centre could create 10 new jobs

News|Nov 19, 2024

November 18, 2024

Shifnal wedding venue hopes to become full-time hotel

News|Nov 18, 2024

November 17, 2024

Newport residents Richard Jones and Helen Lenthall

Local relief as 13 weeks of work to save crumbling historic Newport hotel gets under way

News|Nov 17, 2024

November 14, 2024

Oswestry Borderland Tourism volunteers.

Shropshire volunteer groups celebrate as they are named in King's Awards

News|Nov 14, 2024

October 24, 2024

Reach for the skies! Organisers announce return of RAF Cosford Air Show

Albrighton and Cosford|Oct 24, 2024

October 16, 2024

See full list of M54 closures as six weeks of drainage work set to begin

Transport|Oct 16, 2024