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Manager Graham Turner has urged Shrewsbury Town’s first team wannabes to grasp their chance to impress tonight.

Stephen Hunt will pull a Wolves shirt on from the start as he makes his debut tonight – almost four months after signing.

Arsonists were today warned they were putting lives in danger after 10 people had to be led to safety following a fire in Shrewsbury which caused tens of thousands of pounds of damage.

THOUSANDS OF rabbits could be killed in Welshpool because they are causing serious damage to sports pitches, putting rugby and football players at risk of injury, it has been revealed.

An action-adventure centre near Cleobury Mortimer is giving children from inner-city schools a break with a difference.

Detectives were today continuing to question two men arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a 31-year-old man was found at a flat in Telford. Magistrates yesterday granted detectives more time to question the men, aged 37 and 24.

Richie Partridge’s hat-trick put Aberystwyth to flight as The New Saints returned to winning ways with another goal spree at Park Hall.

Market Drayton Town used up the last of their nine lives as they slumped to yet another Evo Stik League division one south defeat.

Bridgnorth Town 2 Causeway 1 Bridgnorth capped a perfect week with a third successive victory inside seven days.

Police have arrested 11 men in connection with the theft of metal from a Shropshire scrap business.

Police today praised spectators who attended a rugby match for the “dignified “way they handled an incident in which three youths were arrested.

The last time I really cried at a soap it was when Scott and Charlene tied the knot in Neighbours. I was a teenager. I didn’t know any better.

THREE SHROPSHIRE pensioners have been conned out of more than £150,000 in bogus lottery scams over the past 12 months, trading standards chiefs revealed today.

Skinny Genes star Eliza Doolittle wowed Midlands fans with a sell out show at Birmingham’s O2 Academy.

Blog: Lord Browne’s plan to open up the University sector to free market economics says one thing only about the state of modern Britain: We know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Blog: So, according to a Which? survey, it turns out shopkeepers have been secretly adding a few extra inches to measurements allowed for standard dress sizes, increasing bust and hip measurements just enough to allow us to squeeze our well-fed behinds into the size we’d like to believe we are.

A new report into university funding is set to recommend that the cap on tuition fees be removed paving the way for steep increases.

Letter: No wonder people are in debt or are they just fussy? My mother recently passed away and left a three-bedroom house in Telford full of decent furniture. No, it wasn’t antique, and no it wasn’t smack up-to-date modern either, but it was good quality and well looked after.

A CCTV camera which had to be taken down from the site of the Shrewsbury explosion because of work at the scene has now been reinstalled – nine months after the blast.

A £1.3 million scheme to improve the layout of a Shrewsbury junction near to where a teenage cyclist lost his life has proved a big success in helping to improve safety, it was claimed today.

Even the thought of it is enough to make you itch. Head lice can be one of the most annoying and prolific problems we face as parents.

After his release from Highpoint prison in Suffolk, singer George Michael told press he wants to start again.

Audio from phone calls is released as the inquest gets underway into July 7 bombings.

Winter nights are not the time to be out on the streets.

A replay may not have been on the agenda when AFC Telford United arrived in the Peak District – but Buxton have surely missed their chance to spring an FA Cup surprise.

If a week is a long time in politics, then two weeks can be an eternity in football.

Dozens of protesters will be able to hear crunch discussions on plans to build a £5 million biomass incinerator in a south Shropshire town through a live feed.

Angry residents in Tenbury Wells, on the south Shropshire border, have held a public demonstration in their bid to stop a Tesco superstore being built.

IT IS only a matter of time before someone in Oswestry dies because of the town’s problem with the drug GHB, a police officer warned today.

Shropshire’s archery ace Alison Williamson is celebrating her second Commonwealth Games silver medal in three days. Alison, 38, followed up her team silver on Friday with second spot in the individual recurve final yesterday, losing to 16-year-old Indian favourite Deepika Kumari. And that capped a memorable games for the Lilleshall-trained star, who took bronze at [...]