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AFC Telford’s new manager outlined his hopes for the club during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. See what he had to say here.

Tom Cruise spent ages signing fans autographs at The National Movie Awards before getting the screen icon prize. Twilight did well too.

The port of Ramsgate is marking the seventieth anniversary of Dunkirk with a grand fireworks display.

A protest march against knife crime will be held in Shropshire next month after the stabbing of Shrewsbury teenager Ryan Allis-Smith.

Schools in Shrewsbury are losing out on as much as £325,000 a year compared with their counterparts in areas just 30 miles away, a town headmaster has claimed.

If all good things come to those who wait, Shrewsbury Town’s supporters will be anticipating a thrilling 2010-11.

Ron Flowers, Gordon Banks, Geoff Hurst . . . and now Andy Sinton. They are all former England internationals who have gone on to manage Telford United in any of its guises, and Sinton today becomes the latest star to join that exclusive club.

FOOTBALL FANS will be able to hang out their England flags across Telford during the World Cup after housing chiefs today relented on a policy banning tenants from flying the Cross of St George.

Plans for new retail outlets would hit Newport’s “fragile” economic health and threaten its standing as a market town, a report has claimed.

A teenager was airlifted to hospital with a suspected broken leg today after he was involved in a collision with a car in south Shropshire.

Former England star Devon Malcolm will be at Wem on June 13 for a special Twenty20 match.

AFC Telford United’s new manager Andy Sinton today met the media for the first time – and said he had high hopes for his new club. Watch the video here.

Housing chiefs have ordered a Telford man to get rid of a doormat outside his first-floor flat because it contravenes health and safety rules.

Take a look at how a boat service in Ironbridge is taking visitors closer to nature.

Following Inter Milan’s victory in the Champions League final, Jose Mourinho gives a player a goodbye hug as he leaves the Bernabeu, where he could be managing Real Madrid next season.

Dutch winger Benjamin van den Broek has become the third out-of-contract Shrewsbury Town player to officially commit his future to the League Two club.

AFC Telford United today announced the appointment of Andy Sinton as their new manager, the former England international declaring: “I’ll take this club forward.”

A SOUTH SHROPSHIRE woman who was convicted of failing to report treasure in the first case of its kind in the UK is to face a retrial over the find.

Concerns have been raised by residents about the impact hundreds of new homes could have on Church Stretton if they are built over the next 16 years.

A lorry driver who was filmed driving along a motorway with a car trapped to his cab has been told he can keep his licence.

The president aims to reign as king on the biggest day of the Shropshire bowling calender next month, writes JAMES GARRISON.

One of the pivotal moments of World War Two was being remembered today as veterans and dignitaries marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Dunkirk evacuation.

To celebrate the opening of the new HomeSense store at the Merry Hill retail park, HomeSense is inviting you to an exclusive VIP shopping evening at the store from 7 – 9pm on Thursday May 27.

Midfielder Liam Lawrence has confirmed he expects to leave Stoke City this summer because of a lack of first-team opportunities – with Wolves a possible destination.

A COMPLAINT AGAINST the leader of Shropshire Council has been lodged with the national standards watchdog.

Police have today been given more time to continue questioning two men who have been arrested in connection with a massive blaze which wrecked a Telford supermarket.

Cyclists who ride on the pavement could be hit with £30 fines after a police officer told residents he was taking a zero tolerance approach to the act.

The waiting is finally over, the speculation can stop, all bets are off . . . Andy Sinton is the new manager of AFC Telford United, writes AFC Telford blogger Alex James.

The number of abortions carried out in Shropshire has fallen by eight per cent, new NHS statistics show today.

Primary and secondary schools across Shropshire were today being invited by the government to break away from the shackles of local authority control.