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Blog: It is my job to manage the Telford & Wrekin Division’s Local Policing Teams – the police officers and Community Support Officers (CSOs) who play a critical role in dealing with anti social behaviour (ASB), writes Chief Inspector Jason Wells from West Mercia Police.

Road safety campaigners were celebrating today after their 34-year fight to stop lorries trundling through their villages on the north Shropshire border took a major step forward.

Shirehall leaders will decide this month whether to scrap Shropshire’s community skips to save £50,000 a year.

TV crews are set to descend on a historic Shropshire Roman city for a new documentary to be viewed by millions.

Letter: New Labour’s recycled mantra of “a future fair for all” merely translates into robbing Peter to pay Paul, and has undermined the incentive to work hard to provide for one’s own needs. Far easier to sit back and reap the rewards of others.

West Mercia Police, which covers Shropshire, has been rated one of the best performing forces in the country in a report released by the government’s top policing body.

Letter: I refer to the instances of serious offenders reoffending after release on the advice of experts and specifically to Jon Venables.

The organisers of this summer’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival today announced the headline act for the third day of the festival.

Plans to impose fines on motorists in Shrewsbury who leave their engines running as part of new plans to deal with poor air quality today received a mixed response from the public.

South Shropshire residents were left shivering during the coldest winter for 30 years after being stopped from using their central heating or their fires because of problems with their chimneys.

Police were today analysing the results of a search of the River Severn in Shrewsbury using a sonar boat as the hunt for missing teenager Hayden Reynolds-Evans continued.

The Blue Square North play-off race was today set to be blown wide open – with AFC Telford United given a helping hand after Farsley Celtic were disbanded.

Two men today admitted helping to run a cannabis factory in a Shropshire village which housed drugs with an estimated street value of more than £120,000.

Police have been given more time to quiz seven people arrested in Telford on suspicion of human trafficking as part of an inquiry into an alleged child sex ring.

A Mid Wales special school deputy head teacher had sex with one of her pupils four times in the toilets of the British Library, a court heard today.

The MP for Shrewsbury is calling for a debate in the House of Commons about train company Arriva after claims of overcrowding on the Shrewsbury to Birmingham service.

Skipper Stuart Whitehead today spoke of his frustration at becoming an AFC Telford United bench warmer, but insisted: “I’ve accepted the situation.”

The New Saints’ plans to groundshare with Chester City next season will not materialise.

Organisers of this summer’s Shrewsbury Quarry concerts say they are confident there will be no repeat of complaints that the shows are “too quiet”.

Manager Paul Simpson today urged Shrewsbury Town’s “strong personalities” to come to the fore during their promotion run-in.

St Oswalds Vicar, Simon Thorburn, describes yesterday’s moving service for Susan and Frankie McFall.

Hundreds more homes and businesses in Shropshire at risk from flooding will receive free warnings from today.

Hundreds of two-bedrooms flats will be built across Shropshire in a £136 million project to provide care facilities for older people and those with dementia.

Northern Rock today said it was paying staff £14.9 million in bonuses after losses narrowed last year.

Compulsory driving test questions should be introduced to stop motorists dicing with death at Britain’s sixth most abused level crossing in north Shropshire, rail chiefs said today.

Rare colour footage of Shrewsbury from about 60 years ago, which has remained unseen for half a century, has been published online.

The funerals of a mother and daughter killed in a family tragedy were held before an emotional memorial service, it has emerged.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made a keynote speech on the economy, pledging to pull the economy through the “storm” of recession.

A Shropshire National Trust property has thrown open its doors and unveiled its latest developments as part of an ambitious restoration project.

Council chiefs were forced to close a Shropshire swimming pool after concerns about chemical levels in the water.