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One in 10 drivers break the speed limit on a notorious road near Oswestry, new figures have revealed.

Hundreds of women raised tens of thousands of pounds for a Shropshire charity after stepping out for a late-night stroll.

Council bosses are to plough ahead with plans to rebuild schools across Telford & Wrekin despite fears the new coalition Government could scrap the scheme.

I’d always hoped for a halo in the next life . . . Had someone told me I could have one now, but it would be made of graphite and screwed into my skull in four places, I definitely would have passed on the offer.

The combination of hot weather, alcohol and the excitement and tension of the World Cup will be too much for some people, writes West Mercia Police Temporary Chief Inspector Richard Langton.

Shrewsbury Town remain on course to meet their time frame to name their new manager.

A man collapsed and died in a Market Drayton street while being taken into police custody. A police investigation has been launched after the death in Sambrook Crescent.

Shropshire motorcyclist Mat Evans was killed in a crash on the Isle of Man was today described as a “super person” by his family.

AFC Telford United are close to finalising a packed pre-season programme – with a free ‘community day’ and the visit of Premier League Wolves the highlights.

Has the glitz and glamour of Hollywood made its way to a town in Shropshire? That is the question on residents’ lips in Dawley, Telford, today after a mystery sign appeared on the edge of Paddock Mount over the weekend.

Shropshire’s cricketers were today hoping the weather doesn’t ruin their brilliant start to the Minor Counties Championship season.

Fencing has been torn down and obscene messages sprayed on newly laid paving at Oswestry’s new £170,000 town green.

A man has died while trying to rescue his daughter from a river in Mid Wales.

Work got under way today to replace a footbridge in Shrewsbury which was severely damaged when a digger on the back of a lorry smashed into it.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Whitchurch to take part in a new festival celebrating the town.

A new traffic system in a Mid Wales town is a “major accident” waiting to happen, it was claimed today. The new system in Pool Road, Newtown, needs to be looked at urgently, the town mayor said.

Firefighters battled for nearly four hours to rescue a cow which had fallen into the River Severn last night.

Regulars at a Shropshire pub have put up a reward after a charity box containing money for terminally-ill children was stolen.

Bumper crowds descended on Shrewsbury Town FC for an annual motor and leisure show organised by the Shropshire Star.

Pictures from the 2010 Shropshire Business Awards held at the Telford International Centre. The event had a World Cup theme ahead of the start of the tournament.

You want to go on holiday with friends or the family, you want to take the dog, you want to experience the coast, the countryside, maybe some history, but most of all you don’t want it to cost the earth. Is there such a holiday? Four Shropshire friends have been set the challenge and this [...]

The Tim Hortons coffee shop chain is a national institution in Canada, writes Rebecca Lawrence from Moose Jaw.

Letter: Just a few facts to lob into the furore over The Quarry and the Shrewsbury Town Centre Residents’ Association – the association is open to anyone who lives “within the bridges” and promotes a “healthy variety and balance of activities in the town centre” (see STCRA website).

Could this be evidence of ghosts in a Shropshire castle? Video journalist James Shaw spent an evening at Whittington Castle, near Oswestry, with a ghosthunting group.

Eight people have been treated for minor injuries after a train derailed in a remote part of Scotland.

Twin girls aged nine-months-old have been seriously injured by a fox which entered their bedroom as they slept.

An inquest is due to be opened on a Shrewsbury motorcyclist who was killed in a collision on the Isle of Man.

Wimbledon, the World Cup, Shrewsbury Town and the English cricket team dominate this week’s Sunday Supplement.

A Shropshire man has been chosen from hundreds of applicants to join a panel “to take British Gas to task” on behalf of its customers. He will be given unprecedented access to the business over the next four months.

Arthur Mills reports on Paul and Sarah Kent, the Shropshire Golden couple who seemed to have it all, but whose lifestyle was paid for with backhanders.