IMPACT is a charity that has helped many residents from the Telford and Wrekin community for the last 15 years. They offer a range of emotional support services, including counselling, for those who have or care for someone who is affected by their mental health.

Many people are still finding life hard following the gradual ease of lockdown. The charity have a dedicated team of councillors who can work remotely with local residents for up to 3 sessions, to help work through their mental health issues. If you are suffering from anxiety, loneliness, stress or bereavement, or perhaps are worried about your job, the team are there to help.

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Telford & Wrekin Council have announced that their recycling and waste contractor, Veolia, will no longer be providing free food caddy liners to all households within the borough.

Previously, Veolia gave away free liners to encourage as many people as possible to recycle their food waste, however, it is no longer sustainable for them to continue to do this.

Almost 10 million individual liners were distributed free of charge to all households during the last 12 months and whilst the take up for recycling food waste has been well supported, Veolia are now unable to provide this service to all households.

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As this weekend is a bank holiday, bin and food waste collections will be a day later next week.

If your collection is usually on a Monday, this will now be emptied on Tuesday.  If your normal day is a Tuesday, it will be emptied on the Wednesday, and so on.

Please remember to leave your bin and food waste container outside your property by 7.00am on the day of collection.

Normal services will resume on Monday 7th September.

To check which day your bin and food waste container will be collected please visit Telford & Wrekin Council –  bank holiday recycling and rubbish collection

If you require a new bin, food waste container, food waste bags or a blue recycling bag, please request a replacement from Telford & Wrekin Council – bins and recycling

Many residents will have witnessed last nights weather as a result of Storm Francis and that there may be some damage to trees across the Parish.  We are also aware that the storm may have caused more flooding.

The Met Office issued an amber warning in preparation for its arrival and although the storm is reported to have now passed, bad weather is set to continue into the weekend.

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