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The Bucks’ current run of bad form continued last night with a 2-0 loss away to Blyth Spartans.

Motorists in Shrewsbury who sit idle in their cars with their engines running could soon be hit with £60 fines under new plans to improve air quality in the town.

MP David Wright was today meeting Government and union officials in Parliament to discuss the future of a Ministry of Defence depot in Telford, employing more than 1,000 people.

Michael Kightly has warned Wolves “can’t relax for a second” after Reading won to close the gap to the automatic promotion places, writes TIM NASH.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it will encourage banks to move away from riskier lending practices, including limits on income multiples for mortgages.

A man in his 80s from Shropshire was bombarded with more than 3,000 scam letters in the 10 months leading up to his death after he was conned out of £10,000 of his savings.

Thieves have stolen tens of thousands of pounds of ballooning equipment and two trailers from Oswestry’s hot air balloon factory after raiders broke into a compound at the rear of the building.

Final arrangements are being put in place for a celebration of the life of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council.

Families who face eviction after buying mobile homes built without planning permission have won an out-of-court settlement.

Twelve jobs have been created in a Mid Wales town with the opening of a new £1.5 million supermarket.

Whether you heard it first from Bob the Builder or Barack Obama, the phrase of the moment is “Yes, we can”, writes David Burrows. But not in Shrewsbury.

Friends and family of an off-duty police officer killed in a horror smash on his motorbike near Whitchurch today paid emotional tributes to “a much-loved man”.

Britain’s jobless figure rose above the two million mark for the first time in 12 years, while the number of people signing on for benefit soared by a record 138,000 last month, grim new figures showed today.

A £12 million development of a Shropshire museum will include a new mine railway, managers revealed today.

London mayor Boris Johnson is launching a campaign today to convince firms to let members of the public use their toilets.

Fascinating colour footage of Market Drayton in the 1920s has been posted on the website YouTube. And you can see it here.

Many of us will be taking a holiday in the UK this year, and Debbie Bennett samples what’s on offer in the heart of the New Forest.

The uplifting voices of a gospel choir which has performed with Sir Elton John, Tina Turner and Diana Ross are set to fill the air at a Shropshire venue next week.

Stage stars have been given a second chance to make their name after the huge demand for Telford’s Got Talent forced organisers to put on extra auditions.

More than 120 jobs have been safeguarded in Mid Wales after a vehicle parts manufacturer decided to close its Telford branch and transfer work across the border.

Defender Kelvin Langmead is set to reach a major landmark in his Shrewsbury Town career this weekend, more confident than ever the club are ready to make the step up to League One.

The landscape of Shropshire cricket could be heading for a radical overhaul from 2010.

Shropshire’s leading horse is facing the prospect of being out for a year.

More than half of the new homes on a multi-million pound development in Telford expected to be sold this year have been snapped up in the first three months.

Boss Rob Smith was today casting his net far and wide as he looks for a new striker to cure AFC Telford United’s goalscoring blues.

Britain will take longer than any other major economy to recover from the global recession, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had predicted.

The Bank of England's monetary policy committee voted unanimously on halving the base rate and starting quantitative easing to boost a deteriorating economy.

The owner of a traditional Shropshire firm is celebrating winning a national award. Wellington Carriage Company has been named the Countryside Alliance’s top traditional business of 2008.

A Shropshire teenager has been suspended from school after an incident in which a boy was injured and treated at hospital for a puncture wound.

The serial killer dubbed the Black Panther, who murdered a Shropshire teenager, looks set to die in a Norwich prison as he enters the final stages of terminal illness.