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Shrewsbury Town were today assessing their catalogue of injuries as they begin preparations for Saturday’s visit of Bury.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today admitted he will have to assess the effect Ireland’s World Cup heartbreak has had on Kevin Doyle before deciding whether to play him at Chelsea on Saturday.

AFC Telford United are stepping up their search for new signings as Tom Field became the latest player to walk through the New Bucks Head exit.

Shropshire darter Ted ‘The Count’ Hankey has crashed out of the Grand Slam of Darts at Wolverhampton.

Three men have been arrested in Telford on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, detectives today said. The men were in custody today.

A masked robber escaped with £6,000 after holding a worker at knifepoint in a raid at a Telford car dealership.

An upturned canoe was spotted floating downstream in the River Severn in Shrewsbury today, sparking fears that a canoeist could be in serious danger in the swollen river.

People must earn more than £50,000 a year to afford to buy a house in Shropshire, a new report claims.

Shropshire men are proving too shy to take on the girls with not one bidding to be the Face of the Future 2010 a week after the competition was launched.

Bus passengers across Shropshire are having their tickets sent to their mobile phones in a scheme said to be the biggest of its kind in the world.

Organisers of Telford’s Got Talent have changed the name of the competition for 2010 – because of similarities to ITV’s hit show.

Pictures of the rising flood waters in shropshire and Mid Wales.

A Shropshire-based soldier on foot patrol in Afghanistan was unlawfully killed in a blast from a bomb hidden in the wall of a concrete compound, a coroner has ruled.

Boxing great Mike Tyson is to come to Shropshire in March as guest of honour at a sportsmen’s dinner near Oswestry.

Funnyman Bobby Ball is to take to the stage in Ludlow tomorrow.

Badgers could be to blame for weakening a canal embankment on the north Shropshire border which collapsed, flooding a nearby house and fields, it was claimed today.

A 69-year-old man now has just hours left to quit work on a house he is building in a Shropshire village or face the possibility of being taken to court by council planners.

Blog: My return from holiday this week (two weeks doing absolutely nothing, apart from a loving family, dogs, child, wife and fish, since you ask) posed few problems when it came to sniffing out stories, writes James Shaw.

Sitting in the bar of the Albrighton Hall Hotel, Kate Barker does not cut an imposing figure. But what she has to say can affect the world.

Plans to create a Wales-wide network of safe pedestrian and cycle routes have been backed by the Welsh Government. See the video here.

Letter: If any of the so-called experts still have it in mind to try to reduce the capacity of the Princess Royal Hospital in any way I hope they read the recent headline in the Shropshire Star, “Hospitals Go On High Alert”, and the reasons for such a move.

This week Dogs Trust Roden is appealing for a loving new home for Mel, a 13-year-old tan and white terrier cross.

Two greenfield sites on the outskirts of Shrewsbury could be swallowed up to make way for housing and economic development projects over the next 17 years.

Shrewsbury Town regained the Shropshire Senior Cup at the first time of asking – but AFC Telford United put up an almighty effort to retain it.

A man threatened at knifepoint by two men who burst into his Telford home as he lay in bed today welcomed the jail terms handed out to the robbers. A man threatened at knifepoint by two men who burst into his Telford home as he lay in bed today welcomed the jail terms handed out [...]

See highlights from the Shropshire Senior Cup match between AFC Telford United and Shrewsbury town at the New Bucks Head.

Flood barriers were due to be installed tonight in Shrewsbury after rising river levels sparked a flood warning.

Gangs of Irish travellers are believed to be using a sinister marking technique to single out horses in Shropshire to steal and take home to race, it was claimed today.

A Shropshire-based soldier on foot patrol in Afghanistan died in a blast from a bomb hidden in the wall of a concrete compound, an inquest has heard.

A Shropshire man today talked about the early-hours fire that destroyed his caravan and damaged his car.