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Home shopping group Shop Direct – which has a call centre in Newtown – is to cut 1,500 jobs, union leaders said today.

Three people were taken to hospital following a three-car crash near Bridgnorth which left a main road closed for more than six hours.

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Lisa Bailey and family head for a flagship hotel in Crete.

Chris Hudson spends a week in the lap of luxury aboard a Fred.Olsen cruise ship.

Almost 2,000 people were caught watching television without a licence in Shropshire in 2009, it was revealed today.

Letter: I am sorry some people think so negatively of the 1950s. It was a time when children respected their parents, teachers and elders and truth, honesty, manners and marriage were the order of the day.

Letter: I am writing in reply to the letter headlined “Not getting the best care with NHS”. Too much is expected of the NHS. Care is available for everyone in this country without having to pay and people are too quick to criticise the system.

Kirsty Smallman discovers the joys of a UK city visit.

Amy Bould finds the weather far from perfect in France.

Frank Galliers Ltd is one of Shropshire’s most long established building firms, having started life 45 years ago as a family business.

A “tired” looking Shropshire town centre is set to get a cash injection of £500,000 in an attempt to turn its fortunes around.

Fears were today growing for the future of one of Shropshire’s largest building firms, which has been in existence for almost half a century.

Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey revealed the club have made a number of “multi-million-pound offers for players” during the January transfer window.

The family of a Shropshire woman who died after her car collided with a lorry just outside Shawbury today paid tribute to their daughter.

A man escaped serious injury after the 40-tonne crane he was driving overturned and rolled down an embankment in south Shropshire.

The first chief executive of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council has died at home at the age of 83.

Watch exclusive video highlights of Telford Titans’ clash with Flintshire Freeze in the ENL Cup.

Wolves will go to the wire to try to snatch winger Stephen Hunt as they prepare a fourth and final bid to tempt Hull.

Telford’s top cop today vowed to continue the crackdown on burglaries as he revealed his division caught and convicted the most intruders in the West Mercia area.

Detectives are working with council officials to make a Telford footpath where a number of vulnerable people have been attacked and robbed a less vulnerable place for walkers.

A lorry overturned and slid into a ditch on a Shropshire road after the driver said he had to take evasive action to avoid a crash with an overtaking vehicle.

More than 10 jobs will be created when a 70-seater restaurant opens at a stately home on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.

Man-of-the-moment Dave Hibbert has been challenged to break through the 20-goal barrier – as he sets his sights on a slice of Shrewsbury Town history this weekend.

AFC Telford United have pledged not to give up on the Blue Square North play-off dream – despite admitting: “We have left ourselves a massive task.”

Travellers today remained on the site of a derelict Shropshire hotel as council chiefs claimed they have no power to remove them. Five caravans moved on to the site of the former Lee Manor Hotel in Albrighton on Friday.

The readiness of a north Shropshire airbase was due to be tested today as dozens of military personnel prepared to “rescue” their colleagues from a simulated air crash.

Attacks on ambulance staff across Shropshire and the West Midlands are among the highest in the country, shock figures have shown today.

A rise in VAT profits from petrol could be diverted to repair all the potholes in the UK within 100 days, the AA said today.

Shropshire man Peter Old has told us of his experiences in Haiti, where he joined the rescue effort after the devastating earthquake.