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Striker Andy Cooke made his League bow for Shrewsbury Town in Saturday’s lacklustre 1-0 defeat against Bristol Rovers after recovering from a foot injury. Now Manager Gary Peters hopes to use the two-week break from League action to get Cooke back to fitness.  Relive the match with our text commentary.

More than 500 jobs have been created and more than 120 safeguarded across Shropshire and Telford thanks to investment by foreign companies, it was revealed today.

 A home cinema and an operating theatre are just two of the projects completed by a new Shrewsbury-based company which is turning basements into designer spaces. AD Basement Solutions has grown out of a demand for conversions across the UK.

Controversial plans were revealed today to build a block of flats on a site that was the subject of a bitter battle to remove an electricity pylon just three years ago. Residents today vowed to fight the plans, claiming the flats in Hadley Park Road, Hadley, would replace one problem with another.

AFC Telford United captain Steve Pope could be set for a dramatic return to action – just five weeks after doctors ruled him out with snapped cruciate ligaments. The centre-back was expected to be sidelined until March at the earliest, but will visit a specialist for another scan to get a second opinion.

The owners of two Shropshire poultry farms could be hauled before the courts after tests showed they were responsible for a plague of flies that struck a village near Market Drayton.

Newport and St Georges both advanced their promotion prospects in the Birmingham League division three on a day when rain caused many games to be abandoned.

Something hot from sunny Spain arrived on the streets of Britain this summer which should put smiles on the faces of car enthusiasts. In the past few months SEAT has produced three sporty new ‘FR’ models to its range which should rev up the carmaker’s UK sales nicely.

An eight-year-old Shrewsbury girl who is battling with leukaemia is keeping an online diary so her friends can stay in touch with her progress and send her messages.

Work to install a traffic management system on one of Telford’s busiest roads is due to be completed this week, council chiefs said today.

Tributes were today paid to a “fantastic father” and “loving husband” who died after being hit by a car in a Telford supermarket car park.

Shrewsbury’s Summer Season is turning the county town into the “cultural hub” of Shropshire and the West Midlands, a report claims today. Now Shrewsbury and Atcham borough councillors are being asked to agree to give an extra £10,000 funding to maintain the popular arts festival.

Wolves are sweating on the fitness of goalkeeper Matt Murray after he failed to last the 90 minutes of Saturday’s win over Luton. Murray, who has missed the majority of the last two seasons with injury, hobbled off with a knee problem four minutes before the end of the game.

A masterplan to stave off closure plans for two wards at Ludlow Hospital is to be unveiled to residents at a public meeting next week.

A community centre is set to open near to the Shropshire border at a cost of more than £700,000, creating up to 10 jobs and boosting tourism.

Thousands of people across Shropshire were making the most of Bank Holiday Monday festivals in towns and villages around the county.

A Mid Wales man who was landed with a bill for £37,000 after he was found guilty of building an illegal flood barrier alongside the River Severn, is to appeal. Thomas Till, of Arthur Street, Montgomery, appeared in court at Welshpool in July.

She became known as “bonkers” Jo – the outspoken, loud and brash contestant from the hit BBC2 show The Apprentice. But now Jo Cameron will be the headline speaker at a Shropshire Chamber of Commerce event in Shrewsbury.

A major security contract at one of Telford’s largest manufacturers has been extended.  G4S Security Services (UK) has been given a three-year renewal of its contract at Denso Manufacturing UK Ltd.

Shropshire-based entrepreneur Nick Wheeler will be giving the 2006 Crystal Lecture at the University of Wolverhampton’s Telford campus. Mr Wheeler, the man behind the Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts, is originally from Ludlow but now lives with his wife and children near Bridgnorth.

 It started with a kayak left languishing in a garage. It took off with a maternity evening gown, an Aston Martin and a sumo wrestling suit.And what does this bizarre collection of items have in common? They can all be rented over the internet thanks to one family’s bright idea.

New tougher training for lorry and bus drivers which comes into force next month could cost Shropshire businesses hundreds of thousands of pounds, it was claimed today.

A seven-year-old boy was flown to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with a deep cut to his abdomen after falling on Shropshire’s Long Mynd at 3.45pm yesterday.