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Highlights from AFC Telford United’s 5-0 victory over Wellington Amateurs at School Grove.

AFC Telford continued their unbeaten pre-season campaign with a 5-0 win over Wellington Amateurs at School Grove.

More than 100 pensioners from the Market Drayton area have been left thousands of pounds out of pocket by the collapse of a coach company in the town, it was claimed today.

A man arrested after police raided a house in Ellesmere and seized drugs has received a formal police caution with conditions.

Nearly 500 people have used Tamiflu collection points across Shropshire following the opening of the national swine flu line.

Soap star-turned-cheesemaker Sean Wilson has hailed the international cheese show in Nantwich as a huge success and said he was proud to be involved.

AFC Telford will be waiting on the outcome of tests on midfielder Scott Embrey after the teenager suffered ankle ligament damage in their 5-0 win over Wellington Amateurs.

Firefighters dragged a man from a burning house in Telford today after a blaze broke out in the kitchen.

The two biggest employers in Powys could merge in a groundbreaking move which is aimed at streamlining expenditure and improving their services.

Hundreds of drivers have been taken off the road as part of a zero-tolerance approach to drink-driving in Wales this summer, police have revealed.

Captain James Ralph believes Shropshire’s cricketers have kept alive their chances of Minor Counties Championship glory with a draw at Berkshire, writes JAMES GARRISON.

An elderly man has died and a woman injured in a car smash on a county road.

Fit-again striker Dave Hibbert has pledged to take his chance to help Shrewsbury Town fill the void created by Grant Holt’s big money departure.

The family of a former Shropshire woman who died in a two-car smash on a Lincolnshire road have paid tribute to her at a funeral service.

Three people were arrested after police were called to reports of two armed men in Whitchurch.

A cross border campaign was launched today against controversial plans to build a £13 million overhead electricity line near Oswestry.

Bowring go to Bylet for a crucial Furrows Shropshire Premier Bowls League basement battle tonight with their season very much at the crossroads.

Pictures from Stadium MK as Wolves go down to Paul Ince’s side in this pre-season friendly.

Oswestry has missed out on trade from North Wales because of Wrexham’s Eagles Meadow shopping centre, it has been claimed, amid fears Oswestry may not need a new supermarket.

A police officer from Market Drayton has been commended for bravery in saving a suicidal man threatening to throw himself down a steep embankment.

A Shropshire man whose close encounter with a UFO in the county was investigated by MoD top brass today claimed he feared something relating to the incident would happen in 2012.

Farmers were urged today to sow flowers such as knapweed, yarrow and bird’s-foot trefoil in field margins after research showed wild areas with flowering plants provided the best boost for wildlife.

LETTER: When someone has been shot in the back four times and had an axe embedded in their skull, you cannot say that swine flu was the cause of death.

LETTER: Can somebody clarify a few points about the proposed Shrewsbury northern relief road?

No broadband customers are receiving the top download speeds advertised by internet service providers (ISPs), the communications watchdog said today.

One of the highest-paid figures in local government was today reported to be moving to head Shropshire Council as its new chief executive.

Nine Tamiflu collection points have been opened across Shropshire and Telford to help deal with the growing number of suspected swine flu cases.

A campaign to encourage people to think green by buying an environmentally-friendly bag has been launched in a Shropshire town.

A 21-year-old man today appeared in court charged with a sex attack on an 80-year-old woman as she tended a grave in a Shropshire graveyard.

Police raided a house in north Shropshire today, seizing a quantity of drugs and arresting one man.