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The fiancee and five-year-old daughter of a Shropshire teenager who hanged himself in a young offenders institution are as much “victims” of state failures as he was, a top judge heard.

Manager Mike Davies hailed The New Saints’ historic Champions League triumph – and paid tribute to the old guard after finally laying to rest the club’s European jinx.

Staff at Shropshire Council are to be offered a “new deal” which will give them “secure, skilled and satisfying” jobs in an authority that is having to slim down to tackle huge funding cuts.

Telford Tigers player-coach Tom Watkins has been talking to our video team – and he believes his squad is capable of reaching the EPL play-offs.

Protestors in Telford are celebrating after proposals to build an incinerator in the town were finally dropped. Also, Telford Tigers player-coach Tom Watkins believes his side could pose a threat in the EPL.

Shropshire cricket captain Ed Foster insists leading places in the Minor Counties Championship remain up for grabs, writes JAMES GARRISON.

Wolves’ £2.5m new-boy Steven Mouyokolo is out of Saturday’s friendly in Belgium as he faces up to the prospect of another week on the sidelines.

Shrewsbury Town boss Graham Turner has blasted rules limiting him to using three substitutes at the Joma South West Challenge Cup.

BUSINESSES IN Shrewsbury are being put off from introducing a cafe culture by council red-tape, it was claimed today.

Travellers have set up camp on a £600 million housing development in Telford.

Oswestry’s The New Saints Football Club were today celebrating a historic European Champions League victory over Bohemians – and are now busy preparing for a glamour clash with top Belgian side Anderlecht.

CONTROVERSIAL PLANS to build a waste incinerator in Telford have been scrapped.

Dyfed-Powys Police has frozen recruiting any new officers because of fears over budget cuts.

More than £2 million in council tax went uncollected in Powys last year, it has been revealed.

An 18-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in a Telford supermarket today.

The future of Oswestry’s award-winning CCTV system could become clearer following talks which are due to take place at a meeting tonight.

Residents today demanded tough action to minimise the risk of further fires at a Shropshire company hit by three blazes in the last 15 months.

Disgraced former cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken is the latest famous face lined up to host an evening at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn.

Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama held lengthy talks on issues including Afghanistan and the global economy.

Assistant manager Darren Read believes AFC Telford United could spring “one or two surprises” before the squad is ready for the start of the new season.

Three people have been taken to hospital after two road accidents on the Powys/Shropshire border. Fire crews had to cut free some of the injured.

A sports and social club founded after the closure of the British Sugar factory in Shropshire is looking to buy part of the site.

A cyclist was airlifted to hospital with a broken ankle following a crash on a Shropshire road.

Our job-seeking blogger, Dawn Pearce, has been trying to work out how many people find themselves in her position this week and wonders whether job-hunting is all about the confidence.

The principal of a south Shropshire college who was suspended from his role for more than four months, has quit his post, it was announced today.

Shropshire countryside campaigners today urged council leaders to re-think housing plans for the next 20 years or risk a “housebuilding frenzy”.

A landslip which led to temporary traffic lights being installed on a busy Market Drayton road will not be repaired until January 2011 – 12 months after the collapse.

Newport Carnival has been saved from the scrap heap after a new committee was appointed to take over the annual event.

A multi-million pound swimming pool could be built at Shrewsbury’s Sports Village as a replacement for the town’s Quarry pool, a council leisure chief said today.

THE FIANCEE and five-year-old daughter of a Shropshire teenager who hanged himself at a county young offenders’ institution have launched a unique bid for compensation from the Ministry of Justice.