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More than 100 people were evacuated from a pub and one of Oswestry’s busiest roads was shut off amid fears that a fire had broken out in the town’s former Woolworths building.

Two people had a lucky escape when the vehicle they were travelling in crashed on a north Shropshire road and narrowly avoided plunging down a 20ft drop.

Shrewsbury Town manager Paul Simpson has conceded his team’s hopes of automatic promotion from League Two have ended.

Thieves targeted two shoppers at a Shropshire supermarket, stealing their purses from their trolleys.

Chairman Lee Carter believes AFC Telford United’s Setanta Shield triumph can prove a catalyst for expanding the club’s already impressive support.

Wolves continue the next leg of their Premier League promotion push without 40-goal strikeforce Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Chris Iwelumo.

Shropshire’s Sandy Lyle was today hoping to lead the British charge at the US Masters after rolling back the years at Augusta.

Petrolheads in their thousands are descending on Weston Park for the 22nd Midlands Festival of Transport this Easter.

Oswestry Town Council could avoid having to pay a disputed £58,000 electric bill in full after energy firm bosses hinted they were ready to make “a gesture of goodwill” to resolve the row.

A vital service which helped to promote accommodation and attractions to visitors to a Powys town has been saved after traders stepped forward to take it over.

The centre of a Mid Wales town came to a standstill as actors in costume led a march by a number of Christian organisations to mark Good Friday and the crucifixion of Christ.

Pictures from Wolves’ 3-0 win over Southampton which sees them move one step closer to promotion to the Premier League.

Contractors and companies in the building trade were today warned they would be prosecuted if they removed asbestos without holding the proper licences.

Have you bought all your Easter eggs yet? Are you planning to splash out? Well, if you are, don’t – well, not until you’ve seen our special Easter video first. We could save you some money.

A Festival of Ideas and special re-enactment days have been unveiled to help mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Shrewsbury’s most famous son, Charles Darwin.

The Good Friday story was retold on the streets of Newtown. See our picture gallery here.

LETTER: In December last year I was forced to sign on for Jobseeker’s Allowance for the first time since I left school in 1969.

Reviewer’s rating: *** Andy Richardson returned to see if some basic errors had been ironed out.

Reviewer’s rating: *** Sophie Bignall spends an enjoyable evening at a country inn.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to soar like a bird over Shropshire’s Long Mynd? Well, now you can find out by watching this video.

'If that boy were an apple, he'd be a Delicious!' coos a smitten, female high school student as Zac Efron's teen dreamboat struts through the hallways of 17 Again.

E.T.s phone home from the Nevada desert in Andy Fickman's special effects-laden reworking of the Disney adventure Escape To Witch Mountain.

Kari Skogland writes and directs this gritty portrait of life in late '80s and early '90s Belfast, inspired by the book by real-life informer Martin McGartland.

Highlights from Shrewsbury Town’s 2-1 defeat to Bury at Gigg Lane on Friday, April 10.

Shrewsbury’s play-off semi-final hopes took another battering with a 2-1 defeat to Bury at Gigg Lane.

Wolves kept up the pace at the top of the Championship after a first-half blitz saw off Southampton at Molineux.

Bringing up children can be a minefield. Rebecca Lawrence asks: How do parents decide when to let their children go out, and where to draw the line?

A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured when a brick was hurled through a window of a coach about to take AFC Telford United fans home after the side’s Setanta Shield final game.

Millions of television viewers saw the mother of Shropshire killer Christopher Foster break down in tears as she told how she would never see her grand-daughter Kirstie grow into an adult.

A 63-year-old Telford exam invigilator was arrested on suspicion of assault and fingerprinted and DNA tested by police for pushing away a rowdy teenage schoolboy, it was revealed yesterday.