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Vandals hurled a bottle containing a flammable liquid at a house in Telford while the owners were inside.

A FORMER ASSISTANT scout leader from Shropshire has appeared in court to admit a string of offences including being in possession of about 7,500 indecent images of children.

Increased traffic chaos in Newtown has been blamed on Tesco opening its superstore before “vital signal work” on the testing or synchronising of a new set of traffic lights was finished.

A forestry worker has died in woodland near the Shropshire/Powys border after being struck by what police believe to have been a falling tree branch. Dave Francis was cutting down trees in woodland at Christchurch Parish Church in Bwlch-y-cibau, near Llanfyllin.

An independent research company is being hired to analyse rubbish thrown out by Shropshire householders.

Youth offender institutes and secure children’s homes should be the responsibility of the Welsh Government, according to a new report.

A sub-postmaster near Shrewsbury today said his trade had dropped by 25 per cent, just two weeks into a £400,000 scheme to repair a bridge which is expected to take up to six months to complete.

A Shropshire family who literally joined the jet set when it bought a fighter plane say the head-turning machine has finally flown the nest after being sold to a museum.

Kasabian and Muse were both big winners at the NME Awards 2010 – Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and La Roux also picked up prizes….

A full-size cloth copy of the world-famous Turin Shroud, one of only six in the world, is coming to Shropshire next week.

Letter: In reply to the letter from Margaret Hammond on February 12: Stressful time trying to park at hospital.

Plans have been lodged for the next stage of the redevelopment of a historic Oswestry town centre building.

A Shropshire school had hundreds of pounds of damage done to it after thieves smashed their way in and made off with a classroom projector worth almost £600.

Off road bikers and four by four drivers who are ripping up Llangollen’s spectacular, Horseshoe Pass could be hunted down by police helicopter.

A man has died while working in woodland on the Shropshire/Powys border after being hit by what police believe to have been a falling tree branch.

The bill for keeping Telford and Wrekin’s roads open during the freezing conditions so far this winter is about £500,000, new figures revealed.

Triumphant Telford Trojans have scooped the English under-18s ice hockey league title with an emphatic 4-1 win over Manchester Phoenix, putting the Shropshire lads ahead of nearest rivals Sheffield.

The number of teenage pregnancies in parts of Shropshire has risen by three per cent, official figures reveal today.

A new footbridge to replace one which was severely damaged when a digger on the back of a lorry hit it, should be replaced by the middle of June.

Shropshire Council bosses today defended moves to scrap the county’s hot food Meals on Wheels service – but came in for a barrage of criticism from campaigners.

A Shropshire woman has been ordered to hand over an historic coin after being brought to court in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the county.

A father and son from a village near Ludlow are being treated for frostbite after getting lost in snow while climbing in the Pyrenees.

Council tax payers in Telford & Wrekin are facing a 1.9 per cent increase in next year’s bill.

Shropshire is in the grip of Facebook frenzy, it was revealed today.

Councillors have backed proposals for a £2.2 million tennis centre in Telford which would open in a year.

The Telford Talent roadshow arrived at the Abraham Darby Academy as the search for performers continued.

Recession-hit tourists flocked to free-entry visitor attractions across Shropshire last year, it was revealed today.

Shropshire Council leader Keith Barrow will tomorrow present what he called a “fantastic” budget which will see the authority spending nearly half a billion pounds over the coming 12 months.

A north Shropshire country hotel has been put up for sale with a price tag of more than £1 million, it was revealed today.

More than 600 people have signed a petition on the Prime Minister’s website demanding services are not lost at Shropshire’s two main hospitals.