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Hybrids, all-electric, or hydrogen-fuelled cars are the immediate future of motoring – and new models are popping up thick and fast. Motoring Editor Sharon Walters takes a look at some of the weird and wonderful models on offer.

AFC Telford United have swooped to strengthen their squad by signing two new defenders ahead of tonight’s Blue Square North trip to Stafford Rangers.

Larry Chambers hopes AFC Telford United can hit the ground running when they return to action tonight.

The number of people hospitalised in Shropshire for alcohol-fuelled problems has fallen by four per cent in the last three years, new figures today reveal.

Twenty-two-year-old Ellie Goulding, from the Shropshire borders, dropped out of university to follow her dream career in the music industry and her bravery will be rewarded on Tuesday when she receives a Brit Award as the breakthrough act of 2010.

Is this Shropshire’s worst pothole? Motorists have been swerving this crater in Telford which one driver claims has caused a large number of tyres to burst.

Monty Python star Michael Palin has launched Wrexham & Shropshire Trains’ new refurbished fleet.

Investigations are continuing into the cause of the Shrewsbury explosion as Shropshire residents continue to organise fundraising events to support those most seriously injured in the blast.

Telford town centre bosses Hark Apollo has asked the Government to intervene in a last-ditch bid to scupper plans by Asda to build a new supermarket on the civic office site.

The Aga company is set to lay off 35 staff from its two bases in Shropshire.

Police are to seek legal advice from force solicitors before making a final decision on the fate of two Rottweiler dogs who smashed through a fence and attacked a Shropshire family’s pet pig.

Severn Trent customers will see their bills drop by an average of £13 in the next five years after the company agreed not to fight a ruling from the water watchdog.

Twenty five jobs are set to be created at a Shropshire village pub which is undergoing a major £1 million refurbishment.

With having to battle the big freeze and snow, wind, rain and ice over the past few weeks it has been a time of slim pickings for your local neighbourhood fox.

Parts of the West Midlands, including Shropshire, were under water today after heavy rain and melting snow caused the River Severn to swell and led to flooding across the region.

A 300-year-old Shropshire cottage will have to be demolished because of the damage caused by a cement mixer lorry ploughing into the house, its owner has revealed.

A south Shropshire Rotary club has launched a fundraising appeal to provide two shelter boxes for survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.

A Shropshire entertainment venue, which has built up a strong reputation for the music acts it has attracted to the county, will soon be rocking with laughter.

A former England rugby player will be the guest speaker at a sportsman’s dinner raising money to pay for a Shropshire school’s tour of two African countries.

Street dancers and singers stepped into the limelight as auditions for Telford’s Talent 2010 continued at Lawley Community Centre.

Fresh from the success of its bicentennial party last year, Shrewsbury will once again be celebrating the life and times of its most famous son – but for the first time squeezing an event-packed 2010 Darwin Festival into one long weekend.

An award-winning comedian will be entertaining an audience at a Shropshire village hall this month to mark the start of an annual birdwatching event.

Letter: No-one in Bishops Castle takes any notice of parking lines.

Letter: I recently read that pensioners are buying secondhand hardback books to burn in their fires.

Blog: If duck houses and raiding hotel mini-bars fed the appetite for political scandal during 2009, everyone from political diarists to column inch toe-dippers should not be put off by the menu for 2010.

Chocolatier Willy Wonka today said he was very pleased with the takeover deal agreed for his company.

Shrewsbury blast victim Scott Godbold today said he and his friends had come within seconds of disaster.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy admits signing a striker is now a priority as well as a left winger this month and £3m James Beattie is on his radar.

One of the victims of the Shrewsbury blast today spoke of his “miracle” escape when flames ripped through his first floor flat and the building collapsed around him.

A man has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault on a young woman in Shrewsbury.