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Campaigners protesting against mining in a Shropshire area of outstanding natural beauty erected a protest banner in Telford on Saturday.

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Two youths have admitted a string of offences after they broke into cars and sheds in Whitchurch.

A 23-year-old man has appeared in court charged with producing a large quantity of cannabis plants at an address in Telford.

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It’s full steam ahead at a top Shropshire tourist attraction as railway enthusiasts from all over the country celebrate its 40th anniversary at the Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Reunion Gala.

A leading Mid Wales farming union today backed the findings of two major research reports that villages in the region could die because of a lack of jobs and affordable housing.

Chart-topping Midlands’ band Slade is to headline a Shropshire town’s first arts and entertainment festival which takes place this year.

A specialist blogger has been enlisted to keep people up to date on a project to create a cycling scheme and repair infrastructure following the Shrewsbury explosion.

Hundreds of young musicians and singers have descended on Oswestry for the youth music festival.

More than 200 VIPs took to the red carpet at a Shropshire cinema for a special film premiere.

A group of Church Stretton friends has created an internet phenomenon after filming a spoof “gangsta” rap video in the town.

Shropshire’s police chief has said he is keen to establish a rapport with young people in the county in a bid to discourage anti-social behaviour.

Hundreds of cannabis plants with a potential street value of at least £500,000 were seized by police today during a raid on a “drugs factory” in Telford.

Grimsby winger Jamie Devitt has lit the blue touch paper on the eve of the meeting with his former club Shrewsbury Town, declaring: “We play the better football.”

Shropshire’s fire and rescue service – already one of the worst-funded in Britain – is bracing itself for a Government funding squeeze.

Assistant manager Larry Chambers admits it will be a “big blow” if midfielder Kevin O’Connor is ruled out of tomorrow’s crunch clash with Solihull Moors.

Shropshire’s top jumps trainer Henry Daly will not have any runners at the Cheltenham Festival – but that has not stopped him churning out the winners over the last two days.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today said Britain was right to invade Iraq, saying the country went to war “for the right reasons”.

A Shropshire primary school was evacuated after a fire broke out in the building.

Watch video highlights from this week’s clash between AFC Telford and Premiership side Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Family and friends are being urged to shun black and wear “cheerful” clothes to a thanksgiving service to celebrate the lives of tragic Oswestry mother and daughter Sue and Frankie McFall.

A £13 million super surgery to serve more than 15,000 patients across Shrewsbury could be open as early as late 2012, it has been revealed.

When Shropshire couple Olivia and Stuart Wilcox bought a chest of drawers at auction little did they know they were about to lift the lid on a tale of wartime romance, air raids and ration books.

Telford & Wrekin Council has revealed the level of rise in council tax that residents will fund this year.

Council tax bills for Telford & Wrekin Council services are to go up by 1.9 per cent from April – the authority’s lowest increase for more than a decade.

At least 18 jobs are set to be created as part of a multi-million pound expansion of a Shrewsbury company.

Police are hunting two men who ran off after a stolen car was involved in a collision with a private hire vehicle in Telford.

A hidden burial vault has been discovered under the chancel floor of a south Shropshire church.

A Shropshire woman has taken on supermarket giant Tesco in a David and Goliath battle over plans for a “monstrous” wind turbine – and won.