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Wolves winger Michael Kightly today set his sights on returning to action as early as next month after undergoing ankle surgery.

Shropshire’s reigning world champion Ted Hankey has set his sights on winning a third Lakeside World Professional darts crown.

Telford soldier Stuart Cook has described how he owed his life to a heavily armed truck which protected him after repeatedly coming under fire from the Taliban.

Plans for a new Asda store on the site of Telford & Wrekin Council’s civic offices have been recommended for approval by council planning officers.

Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik enjoyed a free sunshine cruise in the Canary Islands while Parliament was still sitting, it emerged today.

The post office network across Shropshire is safe from future closures, it was claimed today.

Shropshire’s very own performing pigs have been grounded – for the time being at least.

A Shropshire supermarket today announced a £500,000 improvement scheme including on-site accommodation for staff. The project is at Harry Tuffins, in Craven Arms.

Snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan’s latest victory at the Telford International Centre was picture perfect for celebrity fan Damien Hirst.

Council leaders are being grilled over the spiralling cost of Shrewsbury’s controversial Quantum Leap sculpture – with one critic demanding to why it does not look like the artist’s impressions.

Plans to vaccinate young children against swine flu were in chaos today after GPs and the Government failed to reach a deal on how to deliver the jab.

Baffled residents of a Shropshire town are trying to solve the mystery of a well that has run dry.

More people have come forward in Shropshire who have been approached by a conman posing as an Army officer to trick them out of cash by asking them to give money for a soldier’s coffin.

There was a strong winter chill in the air in Shrewsbury today. A magical snowflake ice sculpture has been created for shoppers in the town by Shrewsbury-based sculpture firm Ice Creations.

Former Shropshire paedophile Raymond Hewlett, who is wanted for questioning by detectives working for Madeleine McCann’s parents, is close to death, it was reported today.

Recession worries have grown so much in a Shropshire town that two women have decided to start a new group to help people suffering with depression.

A five-year-old boy who trekked across isolated countryside to get help for his injured grandfather on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border was being honoured today alongside some of the country’s bravest children at a star- studded ceremony in London

The organiser of boxing legend Mike Tyson’s visit to Shropshire has described interest in tickets to the event as “huge”.

Our video team visited Hadley Under-5s in Telford to take a look at how the youngsters are getting on with rehersals for the upcoming nativity play – and we got some great answers.

Watch all the action from AFC Telford United’s clash with Fleetwood Town in the Blue Square North.

Two Shropshire towns who had hoped to be twinned with Walt Disney World in Florida have failed in their bid.

A top Shropshire paralympic sportsman is locked in a row with a low cost airline after it refused to let him board a flight.

Controversial snooker king Ronnie O’Sullivan has hailed the impending arrival of Barry Hearn as the new boss of the sport.

Defensive lynchpin Shane Killock believes AFC Telford United still have a great chance to muscle their way back into the Blue Square North play-off race.

Shrewsbury Town’s youngsters bowed out of the FA Youth Cup at the Prostar Stadium – but not before giving Premier League Hull City an almighty fright.

Thousands of campaigners were celebrating today after winning their battle against controversial plans for an incinerator in Telford.

A Shropshire man has been jailed for 10 years after he admitted attacking his childhood best friend, leaving him so badly injured a passer-by thought he was dead.

Shropshire businesses are coming together for a charity Christmas Fair with Carols in aid of World Vision and Cancer Research.

The body of a man has been recovered from the Montgomery Canal at Queens Head near Oswestry, police revealed today.

A three-year-old Shropshire girl who doctors feared would never walk again after she suffered a rare stroke due to contracting chicken pox was due to appear on the nation’s TV screens today.