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Former Government minister Michael Portillo is set to speak about life in the House of Commons during a visit to south Shropshire tomorrow.

A north Shropshire pub which has been closed for nearly 18 months looks set to open its doors again in time for Easter while another popular venue has been put up for sale.

This year’s Llangollen Balloon Festival has been cancelled because organisers say the weather is so unpredictable.

State-of-the-art 3D digital cinema will come to Oswestry if timber firm Richard Burbidge Ltd wins the four-way battle to build the town’s new supermarket, developers revealed today.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy is set to name an unchanged starting line-up for tomorrow evening’s clash with Manchester United at Molineux.

Tickets for this summer’s V Festival went on sale today. The event will see Cheryl Cole’s festival debut as a soloist.

British households lost an estimated £500 million last year trying to heat homes which were not properly insulated, according to figures.

Shropshire snooker ace Adrian Gunnell is through to the final round of qualifying for a place at the World Championships after late night drama against Joe Delaney.

Find out what our movie critic Carl Jones thinks of Alice in Wonderland – the latest Disney blockbuster to hit county cinema screens.

Shoppers in Shrewsbury are shunning traditional high street shops and snapping up Fair Trade products, with a 10 per cent leap in sales in the past year, it has been claimed.

A man who climbed The Wrekin every day for a month on his way to work has raised hundreds of pounds for charity.

Eighties stars Tony Hadley and Rick Astley will be topping the bill at this year’s Shrewsbury Quarry concert.

Some people are just too good to be true. That's certainly the case in horror films - the person least likely to wield an axe with murderous intent invariably turns out to be the raging psychopath with evil in their heart.

Jeff Bridges seems destined, undeservedly, to win the Academy Award as Best Actor In A Leading Role for his turn as a washed up country and western singer, who lives by the bottle.

Forget vampires, werewolves and other denizens of the dark, because it's those winged messengers, the angels, we need to worry about.

Director Atom Egoyan probes the destructive power of obsession in this English language adaptation of Anne Fontaine's 2003 film, Nathalie.

Love blossoms when a father least expects in Neil Jordan's modern day fairytale.

Combining a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity.

The Telford’s Talent search continued at the Hadley Learning Community – and for once, the judges were in a good mood.

Defender Kelvin Langmead has urged Shrewsbury Town to ignore Grimsby’s miserable run as they aim to keep their promotion bandwagon rolling.

Striker Andy Brown’s prolific goalscoring for AFC Telford United has seen him named as the Blue Square North player of the month for February.

Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey has broken his silence on his Premier League exile and pledged to work hard in his battle to regain a first-team place, writes TIM NASH.

A service to celebrate the lives of tragic Shropshire mother and daughter Sue and Frankie McFall will be held in their home town next week.

A plaque is to be unveiled on the former Shropshire home of World War One poet Wilfred Owen.

All parking tickets handed out by an enforcement firm in Shrewsbury in the last two months have been cancelled. The problem arose after notices were apparently illegally removed from windscreens.

A Shropshire farmer was counting the cost today after one of his biggest barns burned to the ground in a suspected arson attack.

Councils could be forced to hold enough salt supplies to deal with six days of cold weather, Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has said.

A car crashed and overturned just yards from a Shropshire primary school today as children were starting to arrive for lessons. A school warning road sign was demolished.

Drivers parking on double yellow lines in a south Shropshire town could be hit with a hefty fine and points on their licence, police warned today.

Residents of a Shropshire village have expressed shock that a teacher facing a string of sex charges was living in the area without parents and neighbours being informed.