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A motorcyclist who suffered major injuries in a collision with a car in Shropshire has died.

Firefighters battled through the night to tackle a massive blaze which ripped through a barn full of hay and straw in Powys.

Shrewsbury town centre will come to a standstill this weekend for the town’s three-day International Street Theatre Festival.

Tributes were today paid to a former mayor of Market Drayton who has died suddenly, aged 74.

A helicopter flew in all the way from Switzerland to spearhead a major operation to upgrade a TV transmitter on The Wrekin and pave the way for the digital switch-over.

A reservoir tunnel underneath a Shropshire beauty spot will open to the public for the first time in the site’s 107-year history later this month.

A stud farm owner from the Shropshire border was spared an immediate jail sentence after admitting one of the worst cases of neglect the RSPCA said it had ever seen.

Britain’s oldest golfer, who was a regular on the fairways in Shropshire, has died aged 101. Charles Viner died at Isle Court Nursing home in Shrewsbury after a long illness.

AFC Telford United’s longest-serving player Jimmy Turner has been released – and striker Matt Nolan could exit close behind.

Shropshire bowls officials have had 600 programmes printed for Sunday’s Crosfield Cup final against Yorkshire – and they think the lot will go.

Plans for a major housing project to the south east of Oswestry as well as a new link road will be unveiled at a public consultation event next week.

Residents can have their say about changes to a north Shropshire bus route which residents claim will leave them cut off.

Shropshire’s Harper Adams University College has opened a £2.3m dairy unit. Find out more in this video.

Forget Transformers, Terminator Salvation, GI Joe and even the rejuvenated crew of the Starship Enterprise.

Bungling conmen targeted a Shropshire man in a European lottery scam – but he had been dead for seven years.

A blind pensioner today hit out at thoughtless drivers after he stumbled into cars parked illegally on a pavement in Telford.

A major airborne operation took place on top of The Wrekin to upgrade its TV transmitter. You can see the pictures here.

Chavs, tailgaters, people with bad body odour and Katie Price — when it comes to life’s little irritations we’re an intolerant bunch. Why not tell us what gets your goat?

Seventy years on from the start of World War Two, Shropshire soldiers are fighting a different kind of battle on the other side of the globe.

Steve Heath has one final mission before his six-year reign as Archibald Worthington captain ends – to keep them in the Furrows Shropshire Premier League.

The home brewing team of Alton and Burrows is facing its first crisis…

It was a Sunday. There was no panic, nor any great shock or surprise. Just a smooth implementation of contingency plans which had been developed over weeks, months, even years.

Shropshire bowls not only boasts a team in Sunday’s Crosfield Cup final, it may just boast the oldest person playing regularly in a league in Britain.

A stud farm owner escaped custody today after admitting one of the worst cases of neglect the RSPCA has ever seen.

Televisions across Shropshire were blacked out today as a major airborne operation was launched on top of The Wrekin to pave the way for the digital switch-over across the region.

Shropshire’s defending world downhill champion Gee Atherton has endorsed the discipline’s Olympic credentials.

AFC Telford United today declared their desire to hold on to striker Matt Nolan – after receiving an approach from Lowestoft Town.

Man-of-the-moment Dave Hibbert has vowed not to rest on his laurels at Shrewsbury Town after a blistering start to the season.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy believes strike duo Kevin Doyle and Andy Keogh can be “a force to reckoned with” in the Barclays Premier League this season.

Two men who attempted to kill badgers on a Shropshire farm have avoided immediate custody after they were sentenced for a string of offences.