"there was recently" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to introduce a recent event, experience, or development. For example: "There was recently a push by the community to establish a new park in the area."
At present it's farmland, but a proposal to build 300 houses there was recently approved by Bath and North East Somerset Council (aka Banes, and sometimes the bane of our lives).
Internet access in Cuba is highly restricted, but a video made by several university students there was recently leaked to the BBC and posted on YouTube, showing them grilling the speaker of parliament and voicing their complaints about wages, unfavorable currency rules and unfair elections.
The superintendent there was recently reassigned.
There was recently a news story about Pippa Middleton's successful pheasant hunting shooting trip in Scotland.
"There was recently a story about 12 bodies being found in a car.
There was recently a party, complete with a cake, to celebrate his 98th birthday, she said.
There is recently a strong pressure on these bands since some companies (Qualcomm, Cisco, etc).
Besides the platform designs, there are recently some studies focusing on the routing algorithms in rechargeable wireless network.
As an alternative to high-temperature powder techniques, there is recently great interest in the development of polymer precursors to produce ceramic materials.
The fraudulent calls have been an issue for some time, but there's recently been an uptick in Massachusetts, Wicked Local reports.
There have been virtually no photos or television footage of bedraggled Iraqis fleeing the border (as there were recently of Palestinians fleeing Gaza, for instance).
