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Shrewsbury Town Football Club has taken on an extra 4,000 tickets for the League Two Play-off Final at Wembley because of massive demand.

Legendary funny man Ken Dodd has added a second performance of his Happiness Show at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn after tickets for his first show sold out in hours.

There was a sharp rise in mortgages for home loans in March according to the latest data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

Newport’s longest serving town councillor has quit the authority saying she had become sick of “sniping” by other members against her.

A Westminster campaign has begun to try to safeguard nearly 100 jobs at a Shrewsbury newspaper and magazine distribution firm.

Walkers and cyclists near Shrewsbury are being intimidated by large dogs that have killed hens and worried sheep, a parish council claimed today.

An online petition has been launched in a bid to end what is claimed to be the postcode lottery for Shropshire residents seeking fertility treatment funding.

British Telecom is to make an additional 15,000 redundancies, most of them in the UK, after reporting an annual loss of £134m this morning.

To mark the release of her new single T.O.N.Y, Beyonce’s little sister Solange and the Hadley St Dreams, will embark on a UK tour with a stop at Birmingham’s Rainbow venue on Saturday, May 1.

Health chiefs are investigating why it is taking longer at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital to hand over patients from ambulances to its A&E unit.

Review: More years ago than I care to remember, I queued with my parents outside the cinema in Whitchurch to watch the film Summer Holiday.

The FTSE 100 was down a fifth of a percentage point in early trading – following yesterday's drops.

If you want to read this it’s going to cost you.

A Shropshire garden where a young Charles Darwin took walks to contemplate his future will open to the public this month.

Worfield continued their excellent start to the FBC Manby Bowdler season, this time by beating Ellesmere by nine wickets.

Beatlemania is set to hit Bridgnorth as a dozen bands come together for a performance of songs from the White Album on Saturday.

Letter: Six years after my father’s death I find myself subconsciously agreeing with his views on modern Britain.

Sales of tickets for Shrewsbury Town’s play-off final with Gillingham at Wembley have sold so well that club bosses today announced they would go on general sale a day earlier than planned.

An idyllic cruise of a lifetime ended in terror for a south Shropshire couple when their ship was attacked by pirates while on holiday in the Indian Ocean.

Play-off fever swept across Shrewsbury today as thousands of tickets for the club’s crunch match were sold and fans starting to plan their journey to Wembley.

22 April 2009: Our themes for this week are ancient and modern, and we’ve got an eclectic mix of period Grade II listed properties and brand new, ready-to-move-into homes on new developments.

A grim forecast from the Bank of England pushed the FTSE 100 further into negative territory.

A Telford couple have been left devastated after thieves took 16 years’ worth of garden ornaments collected in memory of their daughter.

Leading scorer and record signing Grant Holt has declared he has “no doubts” he will be fit for Shrewsbury Town’s Wembley date.

Four nine-year-olds dressed in fairy wings and tutus climbed up to Caradoc in Church Stretton to help raise money for a premature baby charity.

Shropshire MP Daniel Kawczynski today said he was happy to discuss his expenses claims with constituents following allegations of a “systematic abuse” of the rules by some MPs.

Tickets for Shrewsbury Town’s big date at Wembley went on sale today. James Shaw went along to meet the fans at the Prostar Stadium. Watch his report here.

A man who drove a car through the window of an Oswestry charity shop has been banned from driving and given a 12-month supervision order, after causing more than £10,000 of damage.

Marc Tierney has already played in one historic Shrewsbury Town victory over Gillingham this season – now he is hoping to witness another at first hand.

A 83-year-old woman, whose six-year-old great-grandson died after falling from a stairlift at her Telford home, has now been preyed on by burglars.