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AFC Telford United’s fixture nightmares are piling up – with the prospect of four games in seven days looming for Rob Smith’s men.

Shrewsbury Town can still challenge for automatic promotion this season if they can resolve their miserable away record, boss Paul Simpson has insisted.

Wolves have allowed defender Jason Shackell to return to Norwich on loan for the rest of the season.

A 70-year-old Shropshire cleaner claims he has been told he has to leave his job by health service bosses because he is too old.

MINI are getting set for another adventure with the unveiling of their super-fast small premium cabriolet, the John Cooper Works Convertible, at the Geneva International Motor Show on March 3, 2009. 

A man who has cleaned Shrewsbury’s Indoor market for more than 30 years has been told by his new bosses that his work is not up to scratch – despite them being in charge for just two weeks.

LETTER: It is with a mixture of sadness and deep gratitude that I write this letter.

The organisers of Shrewsbury’s Children’s Bookfest are holding a party next month to mark its 10 year anniversary.

Unemployment in Britain rose to 1.97 million in the last three months of 2008, official statistics have shown.

Rugby balls. That’s my problem, writes blogger Andy Richardson. My eyes are shaped like rugby balls.

The FTSE 100 continued its slump in early trading, falling 12.3 points to 4,200.78 by 08:30 GMT.

The first train has rolled into the new £9 million Telford International Railfreight Terminal. See our picture gallery here.

The number of vacancies available for graduates is expected to fall this year for the first time since 2003, a survey claimed on Wednesday.

Protests against EU rules for foreign workers are set to continue today with demonstrations outside two power stations.

Sarah O’Meara talks to the author of a book on Darwin’s theory of evolution, and learns that even today some dismiss the great Shrewsbury-born naturalist’s ideas.

GM Telford Tigers gave two spirited fightbacks this weekend, but it was the getting into trouble in the first place that cost them four points as they fell 6-4 at home to Romford and 7-5 on the road at  Swindon.

An elderly Telford woman was left “extremely upset and shaken” after discovering an intruder in her home.

On the same day that its former bosses said sorry over the country's banking crisis, Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it is to cut 2,300 jobs.

The United States treasury has unveiled an upgraded $1.55 trillion (£1.06 billion) rescue plan for the country's financial institutions.

The FTSE 100 slumped 2.19 per cent, breaking a five-day rally as further concerns about the world economy rattled investor confidence.

GM Telford Tigers saw their EPL play-off hopes take a knock when they lost 6-4 at home to Romford Raiders.

Stricken US carmaker General Motors has announced a 14 per cent reduction in its global workforce, amounting to 10,000 job losses.

A teenager caught littering Telford Town Park on two separate occasions has been fined a total of £200.

Gale-force winds, torrential rain and more snow wreaked chaos across England and Wales today, leaving thousands of people without power and stranded as the transport network came to a standstill.

The first train rolled into the new £9 million Telford International Railfreight Terminal today.

Telford & Wrekin Council and emergency services have slashed the number of roads to be gritted in the borough in a last-ditch bid to conserve rapidly diminishing supplies of road salt.

New houses built in areas at risk of flooding could be uninsurable, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has warned.

It has become quite a question: Just how can Shrewsbury Town’s home results be so spectacular and yet, simultaneously, their away form be so dismal?

A collectable £2 coin bearing the face of Charles Darwin and an ape has been created by Royal Mint to mark his 200th anniversary year.

Telford’s potential as an ideal base for new investment in the building and construction sector has been promoted at Interbuild – one of the industry’s largest annual exhibitions and trade shows.