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More than 45,000 NHS workers call in sick each day – one and a half times the absence rate seen in the private sector, a major study revealed today.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy felt his side fully deserved their 1-0 victory at Wigan – their first away win in the top flight for 25 years.

Civic leaders in Welshpool have hit out at county councillors over their lack of response on windfarm transportation issues.

Nearly two thirds of the work force at a Leominster packaging plant gutted by fire in June have been found other work.

A bid to build a 40-bedroom motel in north Shropshire has been put on ice after furious residents claimed their objections to the plans were “lost”.

County bowls champion Alan Davidson and Keith Wall have been recalled for Shropshire’s bid to win the Crosfield Cup for the first time in 35 years.

A stirring second half fightback may have lifted the mood at AFC Telford United, but it could not completely erase the memory of a truly awful first 45 minutes.

Shropshire rail passengers were today handed a boost for the Bank Holiday period after it was announced that planned engineering work is to be scrapped.

A valuable book worth £640 has been stolen from the window of a Ludlow art shop.

Oswestry’s livestock market has been hit by arsonists who caused thousands of pounds of damage. The intruders ripped up wooden flooring in one of the main auction rings and set it on fire.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski today vowed to write to the Environment Secretary demanding an exemption for the county from landfill taxes in a bid to halt plans for a multi-million pound incinerator in the town.

Andy Keogh wasn’t even born the last time Wolves won an away game in the top flight.

Shrewsbury Town suffered their 1,000th Football League defeat at Victoria Road last night.

Shirehall officials today denied claims by a consumer champion that they have set targets for issuing parking tickets to drivers in Shropshire.

A Shropshire dancer who won a national talent search on TV has landed her dream job – a place on a European tour celebrating the work of her hero, Michael Jackson.

Shropshire’s Lord of the Manor Freddie Fisher has spoken of his joy at being back at his county home after being given the boot from the Big Brother house.

The Shropshire Union Canal at Shebdon, near Market Drayton, has sprung a leak. Watch our video for more.

'Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France...' begins Quentin Tarantino's long-mooted war opus, a blood-soaked fairytale divided into five hefty chapters.

Businesses in Newport are putting their weight behind the Shropshire Star’s Hope House Corporate Challenge in memory of a much-loved little girl who died recently at one of the charity’s hospices.

Highlights froma AFC Telford’s 2-0 draw to Hinckley on August 18, 2009.

Highlights from Shrewsbury Town’s 5-0 defeat away at Dagenham and Redbridge.

Pictures from Wolves’ 1-0 Premier League victory against Wigan at the DW Stadium.

Letter: According to Metro magazine police chiefs who indulge in witchcraft have been given the right to take Halloween and the summer solstice off as religious holidays.

Letter: The decision to blast a further 3,000,000 tons of rock from the heart of Haughmond Hill, near Shrewbury, which is a local beauty spot, is a tragedy.

Shrewsbury Town suffered a devastating 5-0 thumping at Dagenham & Redbridge to fall to their first defeat of the League Two season.

A stirring second half fightback rescued a point for AFC Telford United, as they came from two down at the break to share the spoils.

Did the old More Arms at Shelve have petrol pumps outside?

A Shropshire lorry driver today admitted being responsible for causing the deaths of a Mid Wales couple by driving his truck into the path of their car.

Fifty canal boats were stuck in Market Drayton over the weekend because of a leak on the Shropshire Union Canal.

A man indecently exposed himself to a woman in a Telford park at the same spot and at roughly the same time as another was targeted, it was revealed today.