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Water quality in Oswestry is to come under the spotlight at a crunch meeting between a county MP and water chiefs.

Motorists who ignored flashing warning lights and alarms and drove across a notorious level crossing in north Shropshire have been fined and had penalty points put on their driving licences.

Controversial plans for a £1.3 million refurbishment of a gipsy site in Mid Wales will be decided on by councillors later this month, it has emerged.

Actor Maxwell Caulfield has spoken of his long-held desire to make a film about Shropshire hero Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel.

David Miliband is the favourite to replace Gordon Brown as the next Labour leader. He talks to the Shropshire Star’s London reporter SUNITA PATEL.

Two more rallies involving hundreds of protestors will take place on the same day as a demonstration of more than 1,000 workers from Telford’s MoD base amid fears civil servant jobs could be slashed, it was revealed today.

Blog: It’s a statement loaded with emotion that swings from grief to thinly-veiled anger to a touch of pleading to be believed, even. But was it really necessary for William Hague to issue such a very public outpouring and, in one possibly misguided move, elevate a story from internet gossip to every front page?

Controversial plans to build a £60 million waste incinerator in Shrewsbury have been thrown out.

Council worker Tom, from Market Drayton, isn’t keen to reveal his surname. It’s hardly surprising, because simply by engaging in conversation he’s way outside his comfort zone.

A teenage gang, believed to include boys as young as 14, who sparked arson attacks on a Shropshire housing estate will be caught before it puts more lives at risk, police warned today.

Frank Sinatra’s classic ‘That’s Life’ was blasting out of the Shrewsbury Town dressing room after last night’s Johnstone’s Paint Trophy victory at Oldham.

A SHROPSHIRE TEENAGER and her mother were killed just hours after her father was told he was losing most of his business because of an alleged £500,000 fraud, an inquest heard today.

Tony Blair describes his fractious relationship with Gordon Brown and the tears he shed over the Iraq War in his long-awaited memoirs.

In our property blog this week, Lea Beven gives some advice on how to rent out a property with a garden.

Talented picture restorer Jonathan Adams has got visitors to an exhibition in a tiny south Shropshire village doing a double-take with his near-identical copies of some of the world’s most famous paintings, writes Sophie Bignall.

Teenage goalkeeper Daniel Platt will be trusted as AFC Telford United’s last line of defence for Saturday’s Blue Square Bet North clash at home to Blyth Spartans.

Manager Graham Turner has hailed Shrewsbury Town’s strength in depth after watching their blistering start to the season continue.

Organisers of the country’s largest floodlit bike race which starts in Shropshire today were hoping thousands would turn out for the event.

A paedophile from Telford allegedly made a deathbed confession that Madeleine McCann was kidnapped to order.

A MAJOR AIR, sea and land search for missing Shropshire kayaker Elizabeth Ashbee has been called off after the body of a woman was found seven miles from where she went missing.

A south Shropshire town is one step closer to introducing a booze ban after police said they had received 56 calls in two months complaining about anti-social drinking.

A man stabbed outside a Shropshire nightclub is out of intensive care and his condition is said to be improving, his mother said today.

A decision was due to be made today on controversial £60 million plans to build an incinerator in Shrewsbury.

A man’s body has been found near a river in Mid Wales, police said today.

Fresh details of plans for a supermarket in Whitchurch emerged today as developers confirmed they are in talks with a “major UK” food retailer to occupy the site.

Controversial plans for a new £3.9 million school in south Shropshire have been approved by planners despite a last-ditch attempt to put them back.

More disturbing footage of animal cruelty has appeared online as a girl is caught on camera throwing newborn puppies into a river.

Letter: I am deeply concerned about the Arriva Trains Wales Service operating through Telford to and from Birmingham New Street and into Wales.