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The views of small businesses will be taken on board by Shropshire Council thanks to a new formal pledge signed by authority bosses.

“Ludlow is a pretty place, and the air is fresh and sweet, but the streets are most certainly not paved with gold” writes our new job-seeking careers blogger, Henry Mackley.

Police are investigating a suspected arson attack after a blaze, believed to have started with some timber palettes, gutted part of a Shropshire factory.

The brother of gunman Raoul Moat has criticised police action and likened his final hours to a ‘public execution’.

They were partying in the streets of Madrid last night as Spain’s footballing philosophy prevailed with a 1-0 win over a barbaric Dutch outfit, writes blogger Vic Verster.

Blog: With the new season less than four weeks away, rebuilding work is taking shape at Shrewsbury Town FC, writes blogger James Pugh.

Speed humps laid down along a Telford road as part of a scheme costing thousands of pounds are to be ripped out after it was discovered they were too high.

Many of the people who attended Shrewsbury Quarry’s latest concert were schoolchildren when the main attractions ruled Radio 1, Smash Hits magazine and Top of the Pops.

Once again your paper gives prominence to the expenditure incurred by Her Majesty and family, indicating your support for the republican movement witnessed in this country.

Results from the horse, livestock, sheep, horticultural and dog sections of the Newport Show, held on Saturday, July 10, 2010.

Oswestry’s new £170,000 town green will be opened to the public on July 23, council chiefs said today.

The remains of one of Shropshire’s ancient monuments lies shrouded in scaffolding – more than two years after repair work began.

There is one hot topic dominating the discussion on this week’s podcast – male ironing.

Former Liverpool youngster David Raven has become Graham Turner’s third summer defensive signing at Shrewsbury Town.

Shropshire’s cricketers were today preparing for their date with destiny – and their chance to reach a major final for the first time in seven years.

River levels have been hit by the prolonged dry spell across the UK. The River Severn is reported to be particularly low in Bridgnorth and Bewdley.

They have scooped millions of pounds between them after their numbers came up.

An ex serviceman has criticised the site of a new remembrance memorial in a Telford park, claiming it looks like a “job half done.”

Thousands of people turned back the clock in Shrewsbury’s Quarry and danced to some of the biggest names from the 1980s charts.

These adorable puppies could make the perfect pets.

A woman who was rescued from a burning Shropshire building said she has “lost everything” after her home was “destroyed”.

A police search was sparked in north Shropshire after clothes were discovered in a phone box beside a county beauty spot.

Three Shropshire men who shot a number of pedestrians out of the window of a car with an air pistol have avoided an immediate prison sentence.

Street names at a new £21 million housing development in Shrewsbury will include references to two British nurses in recognition of the site’s heritage as former hospital land.

Plans for a high profile campaign aimed at preventing a big part of the NHS in Shropshire being “privatised” have been put on hold after the Government announced a radical overhaul of the health service.

Blog: It was a bit like old times on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning when Labour MPs kept the Commons sitting with a series of long, drawn out speeches on the Finance Bill, writes John Hipwood.

Night vision footage of the moment the police stand-off with Raoul Moat reached its deadly conclusion.

Youngsters and pensioners will be able to swim for free in Telford until at least the end of the summer holidays, sinking fears that the perk would be axed immediately.

Business owners in Shropshire employing staff who have entered the country illegally could face fines running into tens of thousands of pounds or prison sentences, immigration chiefs warned today.

Work to repair a roadside bank along a busy north Shropshire route, which suffered a landslip six months ago, will not be completed until later this year, council chiefs have warned.