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A supermarket in Telford is recycling old mobile phones and donating money to charity.
Morrison’s in Wellington will be giving £2.50 to charity Asthma UK for each one.
Everybody taking part will also be entered into a prize draw for a hamper and shopping vouchers.
Envelopes are available in store now.

The new Merrythought teddybears have gone on sale.
Owner Oliver Holmes and a handful of staff have been working to produce new limited edition teddys which have gone on sale in the Bear Shop next to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum.
The future of the site has been in doubt since its closure in November, although there are plans to turn the factory into a tourist centre.

Vandals found spraying graffiti in Bridgnorth’s streets will face an £80 on-the-spot fine or an appearance in court.
Police have pledged to crack down on those caught spraying buildings and fences and clean up the town after a spate of incidents in recent weeks.
A spokesman for the police said the matter had been raised at a number of Partners and Communities Together meetings.

A Telford family have featured in a television documentary, which claims that maternity wards in the NHS are buckling under a shortage of midwives.
The couple are Mike and Kerry Everitt, their daughter was Abbie died after Kerry gave birth at Royal Shresbury Hospital in December 2004.
On Panaroma on the BBC, the RSH admitted there should have been a foetal blood sample taken earlier than it was.
They are suing RSH, who has said they offer their "deepest sympathies" but can't comment because of the court case.


A Shropshire cancer patient has won a battle to get a potentially life saving drug.
60 year old John Green from Bridgnorth described the decision by Shropshire Primary Care Trust as ‘better than winning the lottery’.
Mr Green had been spending three thousand pounds a month on Sora-fen-ib Nex-ar-val because it has not been approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
After his appeal the PCT will now foot the bill.

A pub in Shifnal is set to become a members only venue in a bid to cut down on crime and disorder.
The management at Naughty Nells, in Park Street, have met with officials from Bridgnorth District Council, following concerns from police that terms of the Licensing Act weren’t being met.
The pub will also now only trade until 1.30am instead of 2.30.

Plans for a 60-metre high wind monitoring mast next to a Shropshire reservoir have been thrown out by councillors who claimed it would be a “monstrosity” in the countryside.
The proposal for the 200ft mast at Chelmarsh reservoir, near Bridgnorth, was thought to signal the first step in a plan to build one or more wind turbines at the site.
But members of Bridgnorth District Council’s development control committee voted unanimously to reject the application
A senior figure at Punch Taverns has hit back at claims that pubs in Shropshire, including several in Telford, have been forced to close simply because of high rents and increased beer prices.
Andy Hodgson, Punch Taverns’ regional operations director, said that very often pubs were forced to close because “they were not well run”.
His comments came on the same day that the country’s largest pub group announced pre-tax profits of £130 million, up 12 per cent on 2005.

Its been revealed that Shropshire has 30,000 carers who provide unpaid care to relatives and friends.
The figure is around 10% of the whole population.
And now the primary care trust are taking steps to offer help support and information to carers.
Any carer in Telford who would like to know more about what help is available can call 01743 351 995.

New figures show that a scores of children across Shropshire are being expelled for attacking their teachers.
However, Shropshire eduction bosses said that this was not a fair reflection of the work that schools do to tackle bad behaviour.
A spokesperson said that the number of children excluded last year was well below the national average.

Council inspectors are conducting a survey about how many people travel around on bikes and public transport.
It’s all part of the council’s annual travel survey, and is the latest effort to transform Telford from the so called car capital of Shropshire to the greenest town in the region.
Surveys will be carried out on various transport methods throughout the next few months.