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A new walking pack will offer a handy guide to a host of walks – from leisurely strolls to serious treks – across the rolling landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds.

Ludlow’s former Woolworths store is to become a Spar shop. Sarah Deakin, marketing manager for Tates Ltd, which owns Spar Convenience Stores, today confirmed the move.

A 46-year-old Telford father-of-two denied a drug on the NHS which could stop him going blind today took his fight for treatment to Parliament.

Council bosses say they will have to go back to the drawing board after a plan to divert motorists attending car boot sales through Chirk and away from the A5 trunk road failed.

Skipper Graham Coughlan insists Shrewsbury Town remain on course for the League Two play-offs – despite seeing Dagenham & Redbridge leapfrog them into seventh place.

Drainage work to stop Ludlow’s cemetery flooding has started this week and should prevent any future damage to the graveyard during heavy rain.

Market Drayton Town woke up in “dreamland” today – after securing the victory they needed to win the Midland Alliance championship.

Boss Rob Smith saw AFC Telford United book their Blue Square North play-off place and instantly declared: “This could be our year.”

Chancellor Alistair Darling today admitted that the UK economy will shrink by 3.5 per cent this year – the worst decline in modern times.

Magistrates have ordered four Shropshire people to pay more than £400 each after they were caught dropping cigarette ends in Telford town centre.

A 40 per cent rise in house sales in March is welcome news for Alistair Darling as he prepares to unveil his 2009 Budget statement.

England Women’s boss Hope Powell has urged Shropshire football fans to replicate the patriotic support they showed the last time the team came to the county.

An elderly Shropshire couple were charged £350 for just 30 minutes work by a group of men. The couple were taken to a bank to withdraw the cash, police officers said today.

The sale of a Shropshire church hall has fallen through for a second time following the discovery of two mine shafts, it was revealed today.

Almost 100 jobs at Shrewsbury newspaper and magazine distribution firm Dawson News are under threat after the company lost a series of high-profile contracts, bosses said today.

Chancellor Alistair Darling was today faced with producing an austerity Budget against a background of a soaring jobless toll and massive Government debt which will mean future tax increases.

The government borrowed £19.1 billion in March, official figures have shown, the highest monthly amount since records began 16 years ago.

A further 177,000 people lost their jobs between December and February as unemployment rose to its highest since Labour came to power in 1997.

Here’s something we never thought we’d announce. Elvis Presley is to perform in concert at the NEC . . . sort of.

Hospitals have seen a sharp rise in the number of people needing treatment after being injured in violent attacks, academics revealed today.

LETTER: Just over a week ago, there was uproar in the local community following the proposal by Virgin Trains to operate direct trains from Shrewsbury, Wellington and Telford to London.

Ben Bentley meets a well-connected woman whose calling puts her into contact with all manner of the dear departed.

It’s one of life’s little ironies I suppose, writes Shropshire Star Sports Editor Dave Ballinger.

Catherine Roche on how you too can be a domestic goddess – or a domestic god, for that matter (let’s not be sexist, eh).

A pedestrian need hospital treatment after a collision with a car on the Hollinswood Interchange, Telford, at 5.15pm yesterday.

The FTSE 100 fell 0.5 per cent ahead of the Budget, staying under the 4,000 mark as firms going ex-dividend weighed on the index.

A Telford woman is hoping to race to victory in a competition to become one of the new faces of motorsport.

Die-hard Shrewsbury Town football fans are able to test themselves about the club they love with a new quiz book that has just been published.

A 3-0 home win against Burscough ensured the Bucks have a place in the end of season play-offs, writes Telford blogger Joe Davies.

Highlights from AFC Telford’s victory over Burscough FC at the New Bucks Head on April 21, 2008.