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Jobs are set to be created in Oswestry after two industrial units were snapped up.

Shrewsbury’s proposed £100 million North West Relief Road would “carve a destructive swathe” through the countryside and should not be built, campaigners claimed today.

The FTSE 100 remained in positive territory at the close of trading, with the financial and commodity sectors supporting the index.

A knife-wielding elderly woman attacked a teenager in Telford.

The people of Telford are overwhelmingly opposed to an opencast coal mine, with residents united in their fear mining would harm their health and wreck their lives, it was claimed today.

Shropshire athletics is on the up after several new championship bests and AAA Grade 1 performances were recorded at the Shropshire Athletic Association’s Track and Field Championships.

Shrewsbury Town’s club shop and ticket office have been inundated with customers ahead of this weekend’s big game. Watch the video here.

Shrewsbury Town is preparing to take to the hallowed Wembley turf for a play-off final for the second time in two years.

House of Commons speaker Michael Martin today announced his resignation.

Plans for a 3,000-seater stand at a Welsh Premier League ground are set for approval – despite more than 60 objections.

Shropshire’s female internationals were in fine form at Telford Stadium.

Richard Walker insists he hasn’t given up hope of transforming himself from Shrewsbury Town play-off heart-breaker to dream-fulfiler.

Vodafone has unveiled annual profits of £11.8 billion, but warned investors to expect reduced returns in 2009/10.

Boss Rob Smith today paved the way for new faces at AFC Telford United by releasing three players ahead of a major push to strengthen his squad in time for next season.

Shrewsbury Town players will be decked out immaculately in specially-made suits when they enjoy their walk around Wembley on play-off final day this weekend.

“All good things come to an end” was the philosophical response from top bowler Derek Wright as his 40 game winning run in a Shropshire league came to an end, writes MALCOLM FLETCHER.

Shropshire’s star equestrian ‘recruit’ Oliver Townend is not resting on his laurels after his Badminton three-day event win – the Ellesmere-based rider is off to France.

Police officers in north Shropshire will be given language lessons to help them communicate with Polish people in the county when a new course launches today.

The great thing about travelling to Europe on Eurostar is that you step off the train and are immediately in the centre of the city you are visiting.

A Shropshire man accused of murdering a teenage student by setting him on fire told a court if he had been responsible for the killing it would have been a “bloodbath”.

He is known as Spidercat and judging by this video performance it’s clear to see why.

Three people were forced to flee their homes during the early hours of this morning when fire ripped through a block of flats in Market Drayton.

A low-pitched humming noise reported by residents in Church Stretton could just be down to over sensitive hearing, experts have revealed.

A millionaire businessman who made his fortune in the poultry industry has handed over £500,000 to the Shropshire agricultural college where he studied.

Campaigners will today spell out their fears to a public inquiry that thousands of Telford children could suffer from asthma caused by fallout from a proposed opencast coal mine.

A 78-year-old Shropshire man was pulled from his garden shed by his next-door neighbour after it exploded while he was changing a gas bottle.

Hundreds of Shrewsbury Town fans hoping to cheer their team on to victory at Wembley on Saturday will be going by train.

Britain experienced its sharpest rate of deflation in April since records began after the second world war, official figures have shown.

Marks and Spencer has announced a sharp fall in full-year profits, cutting its dividend as a result.

One of Shropshire’s oldest children’s charities is appealing for donations, after it emerged a £7,000 debt may leave it temporarily unable to help disadvantaged children.