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Megan Jones

Community News reporter

Community News reporter covering Shropshire.

June 1, 2025

Pizza chain Domino's submits plans for first Bridgnorth branch

News|5 hours ago

May 29, 2025

Trains cancelled between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton for 'essential maintenance work'

May 16, 2025

Cosford air ambulance base welcoming public this weekend for family-friendly open day

May 13, 2025

Newport day care centre for elderly people and dementia patients plans to expand

May 12, 2025

BMW stolen from Albrighton after home broken into and key stolen - police appeal

Fire after house 'struck by lightning' in Bridgnorth

Jaw-dropping video shows Red Arrows practising for display season - here's when you can see them in Shropshire and West Midlands

May 11, 2025

New independent vets to open in Newport this summer

Series of road closures planned for Bridgnorth A-road - with 24-mile diversion in place

May 9, 2025

Eggs found after pair of Newport swans killed with air rifle begin to hatch

May 8, 2025

Huge transformation planned for Cosford RAF Museum after £9.2m funding boost

May 7, 2025

21-year-old man charged with Wolverhampton shop theft

Armed police spotted outside Great Barr pub amid 'reports of a stabbing' in bus stop

Great Barr|May 7

Four miles of congestion after multi-vehicle crash closes lanes on M6 near Great Barr

May 5, 2025

VE Day 2025: Newport travels back to the 1940s to kickstart VE Day 80th anniversary commemorations

Fundraiser launched for 'reward' to catch killer of Newport swans

May 2, 2025

CCTV appeal after Telford shop thefts as items worth hundreds of pounds stolen from Morrisons and H&M

April 24, 2025

Punch Pubs announces purchase of one of oldest pubs in Market Drayton

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to host open day at Cosford airbase

April 23, 2025

Everything you need to know about Newport's St George's Day celebrations this weekend

April 21, 2025

11 photographs from Weston Park's Easter Motor Show 2025

April 20, 2025

Balaclava-wearing suspects attempt to steal motorcycle outside Bridgnorth Wetherspoons - sparking appeal

Where Ironbridge and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct rank on national list of best (and worst) World Heritage Sites

April 18, 2025

M54 Easter weekend closure cancelled after repairs finish 'ahead of schedule'

April 14, 2025

Police investigating criminal damage at Severn Valley Railway after stones thrown at train carriages

April 3, 2025

Shifnal skip fire sparks call out for firefighters

April 1, 2025

Newport library 'flourishing' in year since town council take over

March 30, 2025

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

March 28, 2025

Lancaster Bomber flypast expected for county show in Shrewsbury

March 19, 2025

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

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

March 14, 2025

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

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

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

Firefighters battle 100 tonne hay bale blaze near Bridgnorth

The 'Great Fire' that changed Newport forever

March 6, 2025

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

March 5, 2025

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

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

March 4, 2025

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

February 28, 2025

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

February 27, 2025

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

February 26, 2025

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

February 24, 2025

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

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

Market Drayton|Feb 19