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LETTER: So the Highways Agency is to spend half a million on installing traffic lights and revised lane markings at Emstrey Island, Shropshire Star, January 1.

Sainsbury's has brought some hope to the retail sector by declaring their "best ever Christmas performance".

Telford Tigers started the new year in frustrating fashion when they went down 6-5 at home to Wightlink Raiders.

Ann Dukes is Shropshire’s single registered member of the Society of Garden Designers, the UK’s only professional body dedicated solely to garden design.

Analysts are expecting a one per cent cut in the interest rate today, a poll for inthenews.co.uk has shown.

Old PCs picked off rubbish tips can still hold data worth up to £85,000 to fraudsters.

Clare and Tim Russell have struggled to come to terms with the death of their baby son, writes Sue Austin.

The FTSE 100 has ended its six-day rally, ending 2.83 per cent lower as utilities and mining stocks weighed on the index.

GM Telford Tigers today released import Andre Niec with immediate effect.

A Shropshire police officer, whose partner was shot and killed as he went to the aid of two unarmed colleagues, today talked for the first time of his “close friend” and “a brave man”.

Customers of failed banks could get their compensation within seven days under new proposals – and without having any debt taken from their savings.

Health claims made by objectors to a proposed incinerator in Telford are “old-fashioned and misguided” according to the consortium behind the project.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski is to hold talks with waste bosses to highlight the concerns of residents about the possibility of an incinerator being built on the edge of the town.

UFO experts in the county today said the strange lights over Shropshire during the festive period may well have been extra-terrestrial activity and not, as suggested, party lanterns.

The skies above Shropshire and the Welsh border have been filled with strange orange lights over the Christmas and New Year holiday.

A Shropshire pub has closed its doors after bosses were forced to ditch their plans for a live music venue after being told by council officials to turn down the volume.

Sixty jobs have been axed at a Shropshire manufacturing company as the economic crisis continued to claim victims across the country.

AFC Telford United started 2009 with a defeat as Stafford Rangers made a winning return to the New Bucks Head.

Flamboyant England cricket captain Kevin Pietersen has left his position as England captain in the wake of a bitter row between him and coach Peter Moores, according to reports.

Crucial talks are to be held over the future of a planned multi-million pound hotel in Shrewsbury after the application was called in by regional government planners.

Shop-price inflation fell dramatically to 0.5 per cent in December, the fastest rate in two years as retailers slashed prices and the VAT reduction took effect.

A company boss has criticised plans to interrupt the power supply to part of a north Shropshire town during the working week.

A rail passenger was hurt when a train hit a lorry, which a Shropshire scrap metal dealer had driven onto a level crossing without permission, court heard.

Blacks Leisure has issued a profit warning as surfing clothing sales plunge, amid tough conditions for high street retailers.

AFC Telford United have received a timely boost with news that star right-back Lee Vaughan should be fit for Saturday’s FA Trophy match against Hayes and Yeading.

Rangers striker Alan Gow has agreed a deal with Wolves, the player’s agent has revealed.

Paul Simpson has paid tribute to the professionalism of Darren Moss after the full-back re-established himself as a first-team regular at Shrewsbury Town.

Shropshire still resembled a land of ice today – but the county’s longest and harshest cold snap for 12 years could soon come to an end.

A 68-year-old Shropshire man has been charged in connection with a crash which claimed the life of a 10-year-old cyclist.

Celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Shrewsbury’s most famous son, Charles Darwin, will begin in earnest this week.