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An “eyesore” building which has lain derelict for decades in a south Shropshire town is set to be brought back to life after town councillors bought it in a £35,000 deal.

Staffordshire Surge 6 Shropshire Revolution 43 Shropshire Revolution completed a double in the second of their back-to-back games against county neighbours Staffordshire Surge in the BAFA Division 2 Central. After a hard fought 25-9 win at home, Shropshire travelled to Longton RUFC in a buoyant mood – and duly delivered a big win. They got [...]

Telford Titans coach Dave Fielder believes he has retained two of his side’s “strongest players” after Stuart Bates and Simon Harrison agreed to play for the ENL 1 outfit next season.

Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson is to lead a march in Shrewsbury as part of a campaign to clear the name of workers jailed over the “flying pickets” building workers’ strike nearly 40 years ago.

Controversial plans to build a 40-bedroom motel beside two main roads in north Shropshire have been thrown out after almost 1,000 objectors fearing traffic and pollution problems signed a petition.

Shropshire’s Blists Hill Victorian Museum has tonight lost out on the £100,000 Arts Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.

Oswestry’s Cae Glas Park is suffering vandalism, with the culprits feared to be schoolchildren, it was claimed today.

Shropshire golfer Oliver Farr jets off to the European Team Championships this weekend hoping to strengthen his case for a Walker Cup spot.

Shropshire businessman Rob Hancocks’ dreams of putting himself to the ultimate speed and endurance test in a bid to raise money for Hope House children’s hospices seemed shattered….

TELFORD & WREKIN Council has forked out nearly £700,000 in compensation to people who have tripped over on borough footpaths in the last five years, it was revealed today.

Shropshire’s reputation as a centre for regional food and drink was officially put on the culinary map today with the opening of a new £7 million base for producers.

Council offices in a Shropshire town are to be closed in a cost-cutting measure – after it was revealed clerks working there had not welcomed a single visitor in two years.

There’s no sign of Shropshire’s cluttered streets getting any less cluttered. But there are plenty of signs across the county that the problem is a widespread one. None more so than in Wellington.

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates today denied assaulting three people – including a paramedic – on a night out.

A woman was today airlifted to hospital suffering from serious multiple injuries after she fell from a footbridge in the centre of Shrewsbury.

LLANGOLLEN’S INTERNATIONAL Musical Eisteddfod will lose vital arts council funding next year – leaving organisers in limbo over its future.

Three of Shropshire’s leading cricket sides are in Twenty20 action tonight – with two of them going head-to-head.

The Open championship dreams of Shropshire golfer Jonathan Gidney are over for another year.

AFC Telford United are set to swoop for Glenn Hoddle Academy graduate Paul Harrison and boss Andy Sinton is also talking terms with experienced striker Alex Meechan.

Wolves defender Christophe Berra today insisted he is ready to bury the hatchet with Steven Fletcher after they joined forces at Molineux.

New defender Ian Sharps has outlined Shrewsbury Town’s ‘massive potential’ as the major attraction towards his decision to move to the Greenhous Meadow.

Rebecca Whitfield, who combines running her business Kidzears with raising her first child, opens up her diary from a crucial week, selling at the Baby Show at Birmingham’s NEC.

Prince William was 28 this week, which has nothing to do with tennis. Except that when this tiny royal baby was being taken home all those years ago, I got a call from the office to drive across London to see the Prince and Princess of Wales show off their new lad to waiting crowds.

Six people who have been arrested in connection with a Shropshire child sex ring involving girls as young as 13 were being quizzed by detectives today.

The village of Cressage could more than double in size under plans to meet tough government housing targets – sparking fears from residents that there would be “too much development”.

Shropshire firefighters have dealt with 34 fires over the past week – many of them started by children playing with matches.

A bridge in a Shropshire village that collapsed after it was weakened by flooding will finally reopen in October – two years after it was damaged.

A Shropshire property developer, whose latest project has been filmed for BBC1′s Homes Under the Hammer programme, is looking forward to the episode being screened in the autumn.

Martin Fry, from 1980s band ABC, talks to Andrew Owen ahead of this summer’s Eighties concert in Shrewsbury Quarry.

A series of police operations will be launched across nightclubs in Telford in a crackdown on booze-fuelled crime, a police inspector said today.