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A teenager was today airlifted to hospital with head injuries after a car collided with a tractor in Shropshire.

Final bids for the jewel dubbed the Wrekin Ruby, listed among the assets of collapsed Shropshire firm Wrekin Construction, were being submitted today.

Former Shrewsbury Town striker Luke Rodgers has appeared in court charged with affray and escaping from police custody.

Freddie Fisher, the Big Brother contestant from the Shropshire border, is launching a new career – as a DJ.

Shoplifting in a north Shropshire town is so bad that a major high street store has reportedly had to lock some of its doors on a busy day to keep thieves at bay, a meeting was told.

Standards in Shropshire schools, from nursery to secondary level, are among the highest in the country, education watchdogs will be told today.

One of Shropshire’s last water polo clubs which was running for more than three decades has folded due to dwindling numbers and a lack of cash.

Residents at a Shropshire care home were all shook up when they received a visit from The King of rock’n'roll.

Councillors are calling for a major rethink of plans to pedestrianise a busy street in a Shropshire market town.

A discount high street chain is due to open in Shrewsbury’s former Woolworths store this weekend, creating about 40 jobs.

A village vicar today told how he and his family had been forced from their home after a campaign of “intimidation” by parishioners.

A new money-making event could be put together in Shrewsbury by West Mid Show bosses as part of a package to help in the fight for the show’s survival.

Shrewsbury Town’s misfiring strikers have been warned they must start scoring soon by manager Paul Simpson.

Youth unemployment reached a record high today as the jobless total nudged 2.5 million, the worst total since the mid-1990s.

A Mid Wales man is £844,570 richer after scooping a Lotto jackpot.

Ouch! Just as AFC Telford United looked set to launch a Christmas promotion charge, along comes a horror of a performance that belonged firmly in Hallowe’en.

Part of Shropshire’s M54 was blocked for more than an hour-and-a-half after a trailer carrying Christmas trees overturned.

A Shropshire supermarket has been crowned one of the best neighbourhood shops in Britain.

A little boy’s dream begins to come true as fire laps at his short and curlies, smoke swirls about his ears and sense of rumbling inevitability is replaced with a sensation that can only be likened to the earth starting to move.

Boss Rob Smith believes AFC Telford United’s beleaguered players remain behind him after their latest Blue Square North battering, but insisted: “We can’t go on like this.”

Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth was today due to deliver the Government’s formal response to a report that criticised the RAF over a crash in Afghanistan that killed a Shropshire man and 13 other British service personnel.

Controversial plans to introduce parking charges on eight free car parks in Powys have been put on hold after thousands of residents objected.

Stunned onlookers had to do a double take when they spotted a huge tyre hurtling down a Bridgnorth road towards them.

A mobile spy camera which has been hailed a major success in reducing crime and anti-social behaviour in a troubled area of Shrewsbury is to be upgraded.

Possol is bang on course for an assault on the Aintree marathon in April.

An unfamiliar Wolves team crashed to defeat as Mick McCarthy chose to rest his entire outfield line-up from the side that beat Tottenham.

Pictures from Wolves’ 3-0 Premier League defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Cinderella brings festive magic to The Grand Theatre, at Wolverhampton, in a stunning annual pantomime.

Two British soldiers have been killed by a suspected suicide bomber while on patrol in Afghanistan.

The Bucks slump to defeat against Redditch United at the Valley Stadium.