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Wales faces a tough challenge but will do better than the rest of the UK under the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review, it was claimed today.

Letter: Are you as fed up as I am with every comment by a Conservative or Lib Dem MP containing the phrase “we have to deal with the mess left to us by the Labour Government”? It’s as if they repeat it often enough it will somehow come true.

Telly Talk: Forget the spending review posing a potential threat to the economy, because if Lord Sugar’s brightest and best of the business world are anything to go by, would the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights.

The FA Trophy dreams of Market Drayton Town were shattered last night – but they were applauded off the pitch by the home supporters.

Letter: In the present economic crisis we are reminded that “we are all in it together” – unfortunately some are in it far deeper than others.

Antiques expert David Dickinson will be in search of a Real Deal when he brings his hit ITV1 show to Coalbrookdale next month.

People in Shropshire were today warned to protect their personal information to avoid becoming a victim of identity theft.

In school, I had the misfortune to do Trade Union and Social History of the 19th century.

A Shropshire hotel worker has been jailed for a year and put on the sex register for having sex with a 14-year-old-girl. Mold Crown Court heard that Aaron Coulson caused the schoolgirl great trauma.

A Powys mother who left her seriously ill son at home while she went out at night to see her boyfriend has been given a community order and ordered by a court to go on a parenting course.

A county contingent of martial artists have their eye on world glory next week.

Civic leaders in Wem have called on the unitary council to make a decision on controversial proposals to create a new community space in the town.

A troubled Shrewsbury housing estate was today targeted in yet more arson attacks as vandals lit a fire close to a nearby school.

Delighted Andy Sinton has hailed his AFC Telford United for buying into his philosophy since his summer arrival as boss, writes JAMES GARRISON.

Shirehall leader Keith Barrow has admitted that Shropshire Council is in a “challenging position” after massive Government spending cuts were unveiled.

It’s been a long time coming, but this afternoon Chancellor George Osborne told the House of Commons that today was the day that Britain stepped back from the brink of bankruptcy and economic ruin, writes John Hipwood.

Highlights of Telford Tigers v Sheffield Steeldogs.

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates assaulted two paramedics and a staff nurse and verbally abused hospital staff after falling down stairs and injuring his head at a Cardiff restaurant, a court was told today.

Driver improvement courses for the “every day” motorist are being launched for the first time in the UK – with Shropshire as the first venue.

Market Drayton Town have re-signed former star Duncan Horler on the eve of the club’s biggest game of the season.

A new £21 million housing development in Shrewsbury is bucking the national trend with sales proving strong despite falling house prices.

Shropshire Council is well on the way to finding a massive £60 million in savings.

In the latest in a series of videos about the start of mining work at New Works in Telford, our video team has been talking to people who could be directly affected by the operation.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, already one of the worst-funded divisions in the country, is looking to make savings of £3 million on its £21 million budget in the next four years.

Chancellor George Osborne set out a four-year plan of cuts today which he said would drag the country “back from the brink”.

Public service bosses in Shropshire were this afternoon beginning to analyse the Comprehensive Spending Review unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne, writes Dave Morris.

A selection of photos from the announcement of the largest cuts to British public spending in decades.

Chancellor George Osborne admits that 490,000 public sector jobs will be cut by 2014.

Police Federation chiefs this afternoon said the news that police spending would fall by four per cent every year for the next four years would hit front line service.

Chancellor George Osborne says Government spending will not fall below what he has already indicated in the budget.