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A campaign is to be launched to curb speeding in some of Shropshire’s rural towns and villages.

A recycling scheme which aimed to rid the streets of a Mid Wales town of rubbish backfired when people began turning up in their droves with sackloads of bottles and cans.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy insists he will have no feelings of regret when he returns to his former club Sunderland tomorrow.

When Claire and I last ate at the Bell in Tong some years ago, we were both a little richer, both a little thinner and indeed, we were both a little naive, writes James Shaw.

Some mornings, getting out of bed is a chore. Wouldn't it be lovely if you could dispatch a doppelganger to take your place: a clone with perfectly coiffed hair and ironed clothes who could literally step out of a charging pod, under your control, and endure the rigours of the day without you lifting a finger.

Thirty years ago, the world was a very different place.

Raw talent will only get you so far. More often than not, it's the people you know and being in the right place at the right time.

In the year which marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On The Origin Of Species - By Means Of Natural Selection, Hollywood gets in on the act.

Traders in a Shropshire market town today claimed the opening of a supermarket nearby has sounded a death knell for independent shops.

A motorcyclist has been found dead at the side of a road near Market Drayton after his bike veered off into a field. It is believed that he crashed and then crawled to the side of the road.

Youngsters at a Shropshire school were treated to an RAF flypast when they climbed to the summit of The Wrekin today.

Thieves used a mini digger to drag a cashpoint out of a wall in a night-time raid on a bank in Telford, police said today.

You wouldn’t have thought a simple request to put some brown sauce on a bacon butty would cause too many problems. But that’s without the health and safety zealots.

It’s the ultimate final day decider in tomorrow’s clash between Bomere Heath and Welshpool – with a place in the Marston’s Shropshire Premier League at stake.

Shrewsbury Town have been challenged to show a ruthless streak as they go in search of a third straight win at home to Northampton tomorrow.

Shops in Ellesmere are battling to stay alive in the recession and competition from retail giant Tesco’s new store, it was claimed today.

Boss Rob Smith is backing AFC Telford United to use tomorrow’s FA Cup clash with Pegasus Juniors as a catalyst for an upturn in form.

Burway took a big step towards the Furrows Shropshire Premier Bowls League as they dominated the first of the big pre play-off fixtures.

The detailed costs of shifting services from Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital to Shrewsbury will be made public, health bosses have said.

Wolves travel to Sunderland on Sunday with major squad changes after their midweek Carling Cup loss to Manchester United.

A major new Hollywood film celebrating the life of Shrewsbury-born Charles Darwin has received its regional premiere in Shropshire.

Today health bosses make a promise on the future of county hospital services, police name the victim of a south Shropshire road accident, and New Zealand couple tour Darwin’s birthplace.

Shropshire Star film critic Carl Jones on the new film Creation, which tells the story of Shrewsbury-born Charles Darwin and which had a regional premiere in the town last night.

A controversial art sculpture celebrating Charles Darwin is expected to finally be unveiled next week – when a supporting framework surrounding it is finally taken down.

Civic leaders have called on Royal Mail to come clean about the future of a sorting office in a Shropshire town. Wem Town Council has made the call.

The blanket closure of schools across Powys in bad weather will never happen again, councillors have pledged.

A woman who died after her car plunged more than 100ft down an embankment on a Shropshire hillside was today named by police as Clare Elizabeth Lett, from Herefordshire.

A 16-seater minibus costing £115 a day will replace an axed Shrewsbury bus service after elderly and disabled people claimed the move has left them stranded.

A post box which disappeared in Shrewsbury sparking concerns from a resident who had no idea where it had gone, has reappared just a few yards away.

Work to transform Welshpool’s indoor market into an old fashioned shopping street is set to get under way next week thanks to funding of £85,000.