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Acts from as far afield as Jamaica to the Philippines and from New York to Sri Lanka have signed up to perform at this year’s Llangollen International Eisteddfod, organisers revealed today.

A new fleet of fast response vehicles manned by emergency clear-up crews is taking to the roads to help keep Telford & Wrekin in good repair.

Dates have been announced for a series of exhibitions focusing on the controversial plans to build a £100 million North West Relief Road around Shrewsbury.

Powys is to get a share of a £2 million funding pot to adapt older people’s homes to help them out of hospital more quickly.

A village near Oswestry is to get its own NHS dentist’s, the latest new health service for residents.

We’ve known it for years but now it’s finally official. Shropshire is the country’s kindest county – and we love living in our towns and villages.

Mick McCarthy today insisted Arsenal’s gruelling Champions League schedule will not have any impact on their chances against Wolves on Saturday – or their title hopes.

A muscular approach from the PM, Britain’s very own Cern-style collider and broadband ferrets . . . just some of the headlines in today’s newspapers.

Club captain Graham Coughlan today opened his heart on receiving the Shrewsbury Town axe – and vowed: “I’ll get back to my best”.

Skipper Stuart Whitehead has rallied AFC Telford United for a late Blue Square North play-off push, insisting: “We know what we have to do.”

A Shropshire sailor has conquered the Pacific. Chelmarsh Sailing Club’s Keith Wilkins won two awards at the 2010 Open Asia Pacific Laser Championships held at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club in Pattaya, Thailand.

The former husband of a Shropshire lottery winner who lost most of his money when he was fleeced by a convicted conman has died – just five years after scooping the £9 million jackpot.

Shropshire and Mid Wales is facing an unsettled Easter weekend with a mixture of sunshine and showers forecast over the Bank Holiday.

Shropshire rower Fred Gill was today getting in his final preparations before crewing for Cambridge in the annual University Boat Race this weekend.

Petrol prices will edge closer to a record high today when motorists will be hit with a 1p a litre fuel duty increase.

Burglars ransacked part of a home in Shrewsbury, stealing more than £4,000 worth of cash, jewellery and electrical items while the occupants were asleep.

Burglars attempted to smash their way into a south Shropshire town’s branch of the HSBC bank during the early hours of the morning.

A man had to be cut free from the cab of a milk tanker after it collided with a truck on the A5 near Shrewsbury early today.

Villagers have lodged a “serious objection” against a developer’s plans for a hi-tech composting unit close to their north Shropshire homes.

Plans to allow extra camping and caravanning at a north Shropshire motorsport venue close to race days look set to be turned down following a string of objections from residents.

Civic leaders have criticised Shirehall bosses after it was confirmed a community skip scheme in north and south Shropshire is to be scrapped.

A Shropshire couple today described their horror after a man wielding a scaffolding pole broke through their living room window and attacked them in their own home.

Twenty jobs are to be created at a Shropshire village pub which is to undergo a £100,000 revamp.

Dozens of campaigners in Mid Wales have pledged to do all they can to stop a bank’s move to cut its opening hours in three towns.

A £25 million academy with space for more than 1,000 students will be built in Shropshire after planners gave the scheme the thumbs-up.

A man was robbed at knifepoint by thieves who forced him to hand over more than £100 in a broad daylight attack in Shrewsbury.

A geo-garden built as part of the controversial £483,000 Quantum Leap sculpture project in Shrewsbury will be completed next week after the cold-snap halted work.

LETTER: Ever tried getting from south to north Telford at dark o’clock in the morning without the benefit of a car or public transport? It’s very enlightening.

Blog: I have often heard people fondly refer to the romantic idea of the local bobby on the beat, someone everyone knew and every naughty child feared.