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Work on the £600,000 revamp of a North Shropshire indoor market is set to go ahead earlier than expected after a meeting with traders.

A north Shropshire horse owner was celebrating today after securing his first ever racing win – after 52 years involved with the animals.

Hundreds of thousands of people already volunteer with environmental charity BTCV, including many in the Black Country region. The charity has recently honoured some of its most committed volunteers and next month, celebrity gardener Charlie Dimmock will present its green heroes with their awards.

Daihatsu’s street-smart Materia is certainly standing the test of time – two years on from its initial launch, it is still turning heads. But that isn’t purely down to funky, cutting-edge looks, writes Ian Vaughan.

Essential repair work to stabilise Harley Bank is set to begin on Monday.

An elderly woman has died after the car she was travelling in crashed and ended up on its roof in a field in Shropshire. A man was also freed from the wreckage.

A round up of the Shropshire Star’s nostalgia pictures for the week ending October 24, 2009.

The Queen’s cousin has heaped praise on one of Shropshire’s newest tourist attractions.

DIY store Wickes and supermarket chain Aldi are to move on to a fire-ravaged Telford industrial estate in a £12 million scheme to create 70 jobs, it has been confirmed.

There comes a time in the world of ever-upsized cars when you reckon there’s simply no need for anything bigger, writes Ian Donaldson.

BNP leader Nick Griffin has appeared on the BBC’s flagship political programme Question Time. Should he have been invited?

Engineers worked through the night to remove the deck of a Shrewsbury footbridge which was seriously damaged when a lorry smashed into it.

Oliver Townend is ready to confirm his status as the new big-money star of European eventing this weekend.

Hundreds of Shropshire postal workers today staged a walkout in the first wave of national strike action which is expected to bring massive disruption to the county’s mail network.

A teenager from Leintwardine, near Ludlow, who went missing more than three weeks ago could have links with Dudley’s Muslim community, police said at a press conference this afternoon.

Work has started on a multi-million pound master-plan to regenerate Wellington’s town centre.

Work on a major new housing development in Shropshire which has stalled for nearly 18 months could finally begin again in January if it wins new funds.

Oswestry’s new water supply will not be on tap until next week, Severn Trent said today.

Simon Parsonage wants to carrying on playing for national bowls champions Shropshire next year – but it won’t be under the auspices of Castlefields.

The future of one of the UK’s last surviving parlour pubs on the Shropshire border has been secured.

A man and a woman who were knocked down when a car crashed into a north Shropshire town hall are a married couple in their 60s.

AFC Telford United have received a much-need injury boost – with a trio of doubtfuls set to be fit for Saturday’s FA Cup clash at Blyth Spartans.

Stuttering Shrewsbury Town today made a double raid on the loan market by signing Hull City winger Jamie Devitt and Waide Fairhurst of Doncaster for a month.

A Shropshire company called in administrators after failing to meet tax demands, it emerged today.

Two Shropshire women who worked as land girls in World War Two have been honoured 60 years later with a visit to Buckingham Palace.

The transfer of some hospital services from Telford to Shrewsbury should begin “as soon as possible”, according to a top level report today.

The Severn Valley Railway received a royal visitor to deliver two new assets, while Shropshire’s postal workers began the first day of strike action. See the video here.

Control room staff at Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service who were suspended and received sanctions following an internal investigation are now off work with stress, it was claimed today.

Shropshire’s fire control room has been closed on several occasions with emergency calls handled by an authority in a neighbouring county, a senior fire officers’ union claimed today.

This is the moment a deck of a footbridge in Shrewsbury was removed, hours after it was seriously damaged when a digger on the back of a lorry smashed into it.