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A £1.3 million scheme to improve the layout of a junction close to where a teenage cyclist lost his life has been completed.

Manager Graham Turner has backed Shrewsbury Town to bounce back strongly from their first League Two defeat of the season.

Wolves were today fined £75,000 by the Football Association for their rash of yellow cards in their last two games.

AFC Telford United look set to pull off a transfer coup with former Queens Park Rangers man Stefan Bailey ready to sign for the club.

Boss Hope Powell saw England Women make a victorious start to their World Cup qualifying play-off in Shrewsbury and declared: “Maybe we should make this our home ground!”, writes CHRIS HUDSON.

Telford Tigers faced a tough return to action when they faced Swindon Wildcats in their first game as a fans-owned club.

Shrewsbury were today the toast of Shropshire cricket after they were dramatically crowned as King of the Midlands.

The future of a Mid Wales arts organisation was hanging in the balance today after the failure of an appeal to try to prevent more than £220,000 of funding from being cut.

The campaign to prevent a huge superstore from opening in Oswestry is gathering pace with a public meeting due to be held in the town tonight.

FOUR IN five teenagers in Ludlow have admitted underage drinking, a survey revealed today.

Campaigners behind controversial plans to double the size of an abattoir in north Shropshire have vowed to hold a protest outside Shropshire Council’s headquarters.

It’s round one to the The X-Factor as a glitzier and revamped Strictly Come Dancing failed to catch its ITV rival in the ratings war.

Blog: As Andy Sinton left the pitch on Saturday afternoon at Solihull Moors he gave a wry smile to the visiting Telford fans who had gathered by the tunnel to applaud him off.

A pay-as-you-go gym is to be created at the multi-million pound Shrewsbury Sports Village, council leisure chiefs said today. It is expected to open in the next few months after work is completed.

Hundreds of visitors descended on Newtown today to mark the arrival of the Tour of Britain cycle race.

It’s not how you lose but how you respond. The mantra that many successful teams have used as their blueprint over the years will resonate around the Shrewsbury Town camp this week.

STICKS and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you. Wolves are finding that adage out the hard way but it’s a small price to pay for survival.

If ever there was proof that AFC Telford United could mount a serious title challenge then this was it.

A protest march could be held against controversial plans to introduce car parking charges in Whitchurch.

Government spending cuts will hit the poorest 13 times harder than rich people, the TUC has warned.

The Alfa Romeo Mito is a car that you can buy with both your head and your heart, writes Neil Ward.

What do the stars think of Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow performing at the Help For Heroes Concert? And see it for yourself!

Blog: It’s not all doom and gloom despite Town suffering their first league defeat of the new season, writes Shrewsbury Town blogger James Pugh.

Major £6 million enhancements could be made to junctions along Shrewsbury’s A5 bypass in a bid to cope with its sprawling population which is expected to increase over the next 15 years.

See who this year’s Strictly Come Dancing celebs, including Ann Widdecombe and Gavin Henson, got paired with!

Letter: Are Shropshire councillors unaware of the irony of doling out grants to revitalise market towns at the same time as they are jeopardising those same towns with car parking charges?

More than 5,000 fly-tipping incidents were reported across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin last year, new figures show.

Assistant Editor Carl Jones and Woman’s Editor Tracey O’Sullivan sit down on the Shropshire Star sofa to discuss the launch on Daybreak, the successor to GMTV. Find out what they thought in our weekly Sunday Supplement podcast.

Shrewsbury Town suffered their first League Two defeat of the season as they were beaten at Gillingham.

Alex Meechan’s first half strike was enough for AFC Telford United to sneak a 1-0 win at Solihull Moors.