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The new £350,000 sculpture and geo-garden being built to mark the bicentenary of Shrewsbury-born scientist Charles Darwin will be the town’s answer to the Angel of the North, it was claimed today.

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The new Charles Darwin Quantum Leap public artwork is taking shape in Shrewsbury. See our picture gallery here.

A group of kind-hearted rounders players from a Shropshire pub team has organised a charity match to raise money to replace a memorial plaque which was stolen from their village.

Lloyds Banking Group is due to announce the closure of all Cheltenham and Gloucester branches, with 1,500 jobs set to be lost.

Two Tone legends The Specials will bring their reunited line-up to the Civic Hall in November, with tickets going on sale on Wednesday June 10.

With Big Brother celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the show which marked the beginning of reality television is back, writes Rebecca Lawrence.

In its day the Peugeot 505 Family estate was the bench mark seven-seat family car and it is this position Peugeot aims to repeat with the introduction of the new Peugeot 5008. Motoring editor Sharon Walters takes a closer look.

A 48-hour strike on the London Underground is almost certain to take place after talks between company bosses and unions ended without resolution.

The FTSE 100 saw gains in morning trading, with rises for miners and Lloyds Banking – while sterling was back up after recent political uncertainties surrounding Gordon Brown.

Shropshire’s Nick Woodbridge is hoping to get the call to the British modern pentathlon team to compete at the 2009 European Championships tomorrow.

The amount of money owed to UK tax authorities is 'enormous and still growing', MPs have warned.

It’s one of mountaineering’s greatest mysteries: Did George Mallory and former Shrewsbury School pupil Andrew Irvine conquer Everest in 1924?

Oh, the things there are to worry about in this scary old world of ours!

Extreme weather conditions left 40 brave crews battling to stay afloat on a Powys waterway at an event to promote the canal.

Bring on the Scots – that’s the call from Shropshire’s Graham Kitchener ahead of England’s next game in IRB Toshiba Junior World Championships in Japan.

Two Shropshire Royal Mail delivery offices were today closed with 16 staff moved and a further four made redundant.

The FTSE 100 fell 0.75 per cent to 4,405.22 as banking stocks slumped, with Lloyds Banking Group leading the decline.

Former Liverpool trainee Steve Torpey was today unveiled as AFC Telford United’s first summer signing.

Wolves have abandoned their interest in signing American international central defender Oguchi Onyewu from Belgian club Standard Liege.

Manager Paul Simpson believes Shane Cansdell-Sherriff’s summer surgery will be the catalyst for the Australian returning to peak form, writes JAMES GARRISON.

Labour was beaten into third place in the West Midlands European Elections, losing one of its two seats.

Wooden Boy are fresh out of Leeders farm studios (www.leedersfarm.co.uk), where they have been working with Andy Blackburn, and Nick Brine (oasis, The Darkness, The Stone Gods) on there highly anticipated debut E.P.

Run Fast Turn Left started life in late 2006 originally as a side project but quickly becoming bigger and bigger the band felt themselves devoting more and more time to the band.

Formed as recently as early 2008, Mitsu’s Run spent their first 6 months holed up in the Ex-servicemen’s club in Oswestry.

After spending the best part of two years perfecting their art and playing countless gigs around the Shropshire area, Decadence in Berlin decided to record their first demo, and in March 2009 they recorded 3 tracks with Ben Millington of NewBreed fame at the Smash Rooms, Ketley.

For a band of mildly disorganised twenty-somethings, The Jackdaws are a pretty determined and resilient bunch.

Deco, who based in Shrewsbury, are aiming at the creation of Art Rock albums, combining their influences Radiohead & Portishead, with the more mainstream edge of a heavy Placebo influence.

Callebra are a Shropshire-based fourpiece whose diverse musical loves have combined to create their unique and memorable sound.

The beautiful rural backwater of Shropshire may not be the most obvious place to go looking for new music, but melodic outfit the Greens are doing their best to buck that trend.