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Firefighters came to the rescue of four youngsters who got stuck in a lift at a Shropshire school.

Hundreds of families, including residents from 26 homes in Tenbury Wells, who were hit by the summer floods of 2007 are still unable to move back into their old homes.

A Shropshire father who feared he would be left to go blind after health officials refused him treatment could win his fight after new evidence was uncovered.

A Shropshire man has hit out at council officials after he reported a needle and syringe left in a town park and it was not removed for three days.

The FTSE 100 rose five points in early trading to 4,035.79 by 09:00 BST as investors digested yesterday's Budget.

Local bands have been quick off the mark to fight for a place in the final of the 2009 Shropshire Star Battle of the Bands.

Thousands of packs containing crime prevention advice, shed alarms and door chains are being handed out by police at the launch of a new campaign to combat burglaries.

A Shropshire internet entrepreneur is about to launch a site that he hopes will take the web by storm.

Ludlow’s Spar store, which is set to open at the town’s former Woolworths, will bring up to 25 jobs to the town.

Michael Grade is to switch to a non-executive role at ITV, leaving the broadcaster to find a new chief executive.

LETTER - Many children and adults still believe that St George is English.

While south Shropshire towns like Ludlow are synonymous with good food, Market Drayton depends on it. The small market town in north Shropshire is famed for being the home of gingerbread.

This is a little idea I just had to write – a sort of tribute to the memory of Charles Darwin.

A suspension bridge that has carried thousands of visitors across a Shropshire river has been removed to make way for a new, wider crossing.

Gomez might have faded from the limelight in recent years, but their songs and fans seem to have stood the test of time, writes James Watkins.

Alistair Darling's surprise move to impose a 50p top-rate tax has been condemned as a white elephant.

The government's pledge to eradicate child poverty is more in doubt than it has ever been following yesterday's Budget, campaigners have claimed.

A leading Oxford University economist expressed his disappointment with yesterday's Budget for not doing enough to pull the UK out of recession.

Help for families and getting people into work has been made a top priority by the Chancellor- in what he called the deepest recession since World War Two.

Shropshire business leaders today gave a mixed reaction to the Budget, saying more could have been done to help small firms struggling with cashflow issues.

Oswestry’s Shopmobility programme, which provides scooters and wheelchairs to people with mobility problems, could be in jeopardy in a matter of months because of a funding crisis, bosses warned today.

More than 2,400 jobs have been lost in Shropshire in the last eight months, with a third of all county workers employed in business sectors projected to decline over the next decade.

A mother today warned teenagers about going to Telford Town Park after her son was attacked by a gang of 15 hooded yobs armed with iron bars and baseball bats.

The FTSE 100 responded uneasily to the Budget, rising 43 points back over the 4,000 mark.

The owner of a Shrewsbury nightclub today said it was “open for business as normal” after being forced to close in a row over a £23,000 water bill.

Motorists in Shrewsbury are facing traffic chaos on one of the town’s busiest gyratory systems, which has been branded a “nightmare”.

A Shropshire woman has been awarded criminal injuries compensation after she was sexually abused even though no-one has been charged or brought before the courts over it.

A retired GP today criticised an independent report into the potential health risks that plans for an open cast mine in the shadow of The Wrekin could pose to Telford residents.

Angry staff at Ellesmere’s Royal Mail delivery office have vowed to fight plans to close the centre.

Action will be taken over the quality of Welsh education on offer in secondary schools in parts of Powys after worried parents called for the issue to be looked at.