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Burway have booked their place in the Furrows Shropshire Premier Bowls League play-offs – and are set to feature in the first pre play-off game on Wednesday, writes MALCOLM FLETCHER.

Oswestry’s firefighters were told they could not wash cars for charity  — because the soapy water could pollute streams. It’s just another example of The Rules.

With their old albums digitally cleaned-up and re-released, the Beatles are back and bigger then ever. But one small town has never forgotten seeing the real thing live.

Oswestry’s firefighters will not be taking part in the national fire service charity car wash day tomorrow because of fears that the soapy water could run into local streams and pollute them.

When Phillip and Sharon Beddoes went to sleep on Saturday night they didn’t believe in UFOs.

A man received hospital treatment after being attacked by a woman who struck him on the head with a stiletto shoe in Shrewsbury town centre.

Prison officers at a Shropshire jail carry knives with them so they can cut ligatures from people found hanging in their cell, a watchdog has revealed.

Two men were today facing “significant” jail sentences after being convicted of robbing a Shropshire man and his 80-year-old mother in their home.

A top prisons boss called for £20 million to be invested into Shrewsbury’s ageing and overcrowded Victorian jail over the next 10 years, a new report has revealed.

A round-up of the Shropshire Star’s nostalgia pictures for the week ending Saturday, September 19.

Find out what happened when Chris Tarrant brought his celebrity cricket team to Wrekin College this week.

Transferring some accident and emergency and other acute services from the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to the Royal Shrewsbury is the best option facing health chiefs, a report revealed today.

A Shropshire man who staged a birthday sit-in in his camper van to prevent it being towed away was today claiming victory after vehicle licensing bosses backed down.

The final budget for a controversial Shrewsbury sculpture to celebrate Charles Darwin is expected to be £450,000, a leisure boss says. It was thought the project to create Quantum Leap and the Darwin Memorial Garden in Mardol Quay would cost £350,000.

DIY giant B&Q is facing an enormous legal bill after selling a “defective” radiator to a Shropshire homeowner who suffered injuries in a fall.

A Shropshire MP is giving his support to services at Telford’s hospital, and TV came to Shropshire today with the Antiques Roadshow.

Three people were taken to hospital, one by air ambulance, following a two-car smash yesterday on Shropshire’s A49 close to the junction with Overton Road, near Ludlow.

More than 700 people have signed a petition to get CCTV cameras installed at a Shropshire swimming pool, following a spate of vandalism.

Frontline services across Powys could face cuts over the next five years because of a £33 million budget deficit, it has been revealed.

Callum Wraight’s bid to become only Shropshire’s second winner of the Autumn Waterloo ended at the quarter-final stage.

Skipper Graham Coughlan has challenged Shrewsbury Town to become a defensive mean machine – and notch the 20 clean sheets he believes is required to challenge for promotion.

AFC Telford United manager Rob Smith believes the team’s “focal point” will be returning when they welcome back Carl Rodgers for this weekend’s trip to Eastwood.

Shropshire professional James Busby is on course to cruise through the first stage of qualifying school in the race to join the world’s leading golfers on the European Tour, writes JAMES GARRISON.

Is the glass half-empty or half-full? And by glass, I mean barrel.

Hundreds of people were today descending on Blists Hill Victorian Town in the Ironbridge Gorge for the filming of   BBC1′s Antiques Roadshow.

Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard is to recruit town and parish councils in his fight to stop any downgrading of the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, it was revealed today.

A farmer spreading chicken muck has been blamed for an unpleasant smell over areas of Shrewsbury.

High technology Smart Water identification developed by a Telford firm is being used by a council in Britain for the first time to catch fly-tippers.

Staff at Shropshire Council are working with suppliers to look at alternative options for securing fittings after fire crews were scrambled to one of its buildings – only to find the call had been triggered by the smell of glue holding a new carpet.

A Shropshire mother has told how her “lifeline was cut” after being unfairly dismissed from a county pharmacy.