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Fast food giant McDonald’s has become the latest company to use Shropshire in its nationwide television commercials, to be shown later this year.

An Oswestry man who butted a Bangladeshi taxi driver in a racially-motivated attack has been spared jail.

Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman today dismissed “media speculation” about the future of Gordon Brown as the Government faced accusations of being in its “death throes”.

A nursery in a Shropshire village is to close after 23 years. The parish council has given it notice to leave its premises by August. Lythwood Nursery is based at the pavilion in Bayston Hill.

Members of a Telford parish council have unanimously declared no confidence in Shropshire’s hospital boss Tom Taylor after a dying 80-year-old woman was left for seven hours before seeing a doctor.

Three soldiers from a north Shropshire-based Army regiment have collected bravery medals from the Queen.

Hazel Blears today quit the Cabinet in another bodyblow to Gordon Brown’s ailing premiership.

An energy company bidding to build seven wind turbines the height of St Paul’s Cathedral in north Shropshire has made its final case on the last day of a month-long public inquiry.

The FTSE 100 was heading down in morning trading and dropped by 1.15 per cent to 4,425.37 by 08:45 BST.

Manchester City's Abu Dhabi-based billionaire owner has added £1.5 billion to his coffers by selling a stake in Barclays.

Letter: We should show zero tolerance for those people who make life intolerable for other people.

Fancy getting stuck into a restoration project? We’ve cherry picked five of the best Shropshire homes on the market this week, each of which are in need of a good dose of TLC.

A “devoted” Shropshire couple died within days of each other because they could not bear to live without each other.

Remember when you played outdoors climbing trees and making camp fires in the days before electronic games made children coach potatoes? Sophie Bignall reports…

The build-up to the 2009-10 season will begin early for AFC Telford United – with voluntary training sessions starting next week.

The FTSE 100 closed 29.17 points down to 4,477.02 after an earlier sell-off prompted by news a Middle Eastern investor had dumped over a billion shares in Barclays.

A Shrewsbury woman died of a broken heart just eight days after her husband lost his fight with cancer, their daughter said today.

Masked gunmen forced their way into the home of a Shropshire family before firing a shot and leaving two people injured.

Shrewsbury Town talisman Grant Holt today insisted he will be fit to start the new season – and insists he has unfinished business with the club.

Shropshire Sailing Club’s youngsters left their home waters behind to compete in national championships.

We take a look back at League Two Player of the Year Grant Holt’s memorable season with Shrewsbury Town.

A post mortem on a glider pilot who crashed his aircraft on a south Shropshire hillside is due to take place tomorrow.

Strange objects seen in the sky above Cookley, Shropshire, filmed by Col Foster.

It was honours even as Ford tied with St Georges – a thrilling Furrows Shropshire Premier League match finishing level on aggregate and in terms of number of winners.

Market Drayton Town will lock horns with FA Cup heroes Chasetown – and their Shropshire manager – next season after the two were placed in the same league.

Kuldeep Diwan is establishing himself as one of the stars of the Marston’s Shropshire Premier League after inspiring Much Wenlock to their second win of the campaign.

A month-long public inquiry on plans to build seven giant wind turbines near Market Drayton was due to end today.

Shropshire huntsman Otis Ferry today called for a major shake-up of the judiciary system after he spent four months of “hell” in prison only to be released when the charges were dropped.

More than 70 jobs have been lost following the collapse of a Powys firm.

Something fishy is going on at a top Shropshire visitor attraction after people were spotted depositing mystery fish from buckets into the water.