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Organisers of Wales’s premier agricultural show have today hailed last year’s show a massive success – revealing it had netted a profit of more than £370,000 – one of the best recorded.

Former Shrewsbury Town goalkeeper Joe Hart will spend next season on loan at Birmingham.

The number of young people out of work in Telford has risen by more than three per cent since the start of the recession, figures reveal today.

James Ralph today hailed the spirit of Shropshire’s cock-a-hoop cricketers after a memorable Minor Counties triumph put them in Championship contention.

The Saturdays Wolverhampton Civic Hall Concert review and photographs by James Watkins

Tonight: A Shropshire pre-school that was at the centre of a swine flu scare, and why the county is one of the best places to live in the UK. Find out more in our news bulletin.

Thieves have stolen tools belonging to a Powys man killed in a road accident.

Shrewsbury Town today confirmed they have rejected a bid from League One Colchester for Grant Holt – as the future of some members of the ‘out-of-contract’ six became clearer.

Shropshire is in the national top 10 for quality of life and well ahead of Telford, a new survey revealed today.

Nearly 100 people gathered to protest against plans to transport windfarm parts through the centre of Welshpool. Campaigners fear that thousands of delivery lorries will pass through.

People in Shropshire were basking in soaring temperatures today as a mini-heatwave swept the country.

Telford & Wrekin councillors collected more than £638,000 in expenses and allowances over the past year, new figures reveal.

Three soldiers from a north Shropshire-based Army regiment were due to receive bravery medals at Buckingham Palace today.

Telford & Wrekin Council and the developer behind a £1.2 billion revamp of Telford Town Centre today declared a truce in the war over a controversial deal to sell the council’s Civic Offices site to Asda.

Staff shut a Shropshire pre-school amid fears it had been hit by a swine flu outbreak after a number of staff members reported suffering symptoms.

A 37-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital after she fell from a horse near Whitchurch.

Shrewsbury Big Brother housemate Kris Donnelly might have to prove his romance with model Sophie Reade is real in a special test.

Setanta dared to take on the giants at Sky, muscling their way into the potentially lucrative Premier League market, writes CHRIS HUDSON.

Plans for new speed limits could “deface the countryside” with signs, distract drivers and cost £300 million, the Campaign to Protect Rural England claimed today.

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, who has a passion for blowing up old touring caravans, is being invited to take a break with his family in a luxury caravan holiday home on a five star park in Mid Wales.

This picture shows an artist’s impression of a brand new, £100,000 play park which will be created in Whitchurch.

LETTER: The so-called broadband tax seems dreadfully unfair. Many of the 34 million fixed telephone lines around Britain are used by people who do not even own a computer.

LETTER: With regard to the chaos caused by the needless waste of taxpayers’ money on the recent traffic census at Preston Island, I wish to say the following concerning Martin Allard’s comments about lessons to be learned.

Analysis of the figures shows that members of Telford & Wrekin Council cost taxpayers substantially less than their counterparts on the former Shropshire County Council.

County woman Annie Waddington-Feather has undertaken a research project after moving to Australia.

Ten neighbourhoods in Shropshire protected as “conservation areas” are under threat from neglect, decay and damaging development, English Heritage warned today.

Shropshire has been hit by a spate of fly-tipping across the county in just two months, which has cost almost £10,000 to clear up.

A woman has been hit by an exploding firework which whizzed towards her as she was walking in Newport.

Tonight: Canoeists plunging off a Shrewsbury bridge have been criticised by police, and the aftermath of a house fire in Woodside, Telford.

Bosses at Oswestry’s The New Saints FC said today they were “over the moon” to be bringing European club football to Shropshire for the first time next month.