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A Telford window cleaner was today fighting for his life in hospital after falling from a ladder at a two-storey house.

Part of a bridge in a Shropshire town was ripped down by a lorry which failed to stop, police said today.

Fitness fanatic Stephen Buttler was today attempting to smash a 100-year-old record and claim a unique place in the history books.

A planned strike by drivers at Arriva Trains Wales on Friday was called off tonight following an improved pay offer.

People out of work in Shropshire are being urged to go back to basics to beat the recession – by becoming a market trader.

Former skipper Graham Coughlan today prepared for his first return to Shrewsbury Town by labelling his two years at the club as “a failure”.

Defender Stuart Whitehead has revealed how he turned down a summer move to FA Trophy opponents Corby, insisting: “I want to finish my career with AFC Telford United.”

Shropshire’s Ted Hankey will have to overcome a fellow former BDO world champion to reach the quarter finals of the Grand Slam of Darts for the first time.

Shropshire councillors, meeting at the Guildhall in Oswestry, were due to decide today whether the town should get a new multi-storey car park.

Retail giant John Lewis is to change its Christmas advert showing a dog left out in the snow following a campaign by a Shropshire radio station.

The mail service in a north Shropshire village has gone “haywire” with villagers receiving their post days late following the closure of nearby Crewe sorting office.

A supermarket in a Mid Wales town will close tomorrow and up to a dozen jobs will be lost. Distraught staff said today the CK Food Store in Pool Road, Newtown, is due to shut up shop.

A shake-up in emergency cover is leaving residents on the Shropshire and Welsh border with a “second class ambulance service”, it has been claimed.

Severn Trent officials looking to build a controversial new sewage pumping station in a Shropshire village have been told to investigate other possibilities for the facility by councillors.

Damon Albarn was the king of the jungle when Gorillaz came calling.

Could Blists Hill Victorian Town be the latest secret weapon in the war on X Factor and help a little known band get to Number One for Christmas?

More than £5 million of heroin bound for a Shropshire industrial estate was the biggest seizure of class A drugs made this year, it was revealed today.

Telly Talk: Sometimes it’s no fun being right. And watching Sandeesh being booted off the Apprentice last night, a week after I tipped her to go, was a bittersweet victory.

David Cameron pledges Government support for victims of Cornwall’s floods.

Tickets have gone on sale for the 2011 Shrewsbury Folk Festival, with some of the biggest names in the industry lined up to feature.

Thirteen off-licences have been targeted by police and Telford & Wrekin Council officers in a crackdown on under-age sales.

Telly Talk: Things are definitely looking up for Lembit Opik. Okay so people can’t get his name right with ITV2 I’m a Celebrity presenter Joe Swash insisting on calling him Limpit while Lemsip is favoured in other quarters.

Blog: William’s firm message was that the past is the past, he remembers his mother with affection but life moves on. He and Kate will carve their own future, make their own way and she doesn’t have to live up to anyone.

Most people have heard the horror stories of landlords finding their rental properties left in a terrible state by tenants who have moved out.

Trading standards chiefs today warned Shropshire residents to be on their guard against postal and e-mail scams with Christmas approaching.

A landmark Shropshire hotel at the foot of The Wrekin has been sold for an undisclosed sum, it was revealed today.

A Canadian descendant of Admiral Benbow has branded the lack of public acknowledgement of one of Shrewsbury’s famous sons as “unacceptable” and “astonishing”.

On a day when the future King William’s engagement to Kate Middleton dominated the headlines, Telford produced a performance that was more Registry Office than Westminster Abbey.

A controversial scheme to build 10 “eco homes” in a north Shropshire town has been refused by councillors after it sparked a petition signed by more than 800 people.

Shropshire sports fans are going snooker loopy ahead of next month’s UK Championship – with ticket sales 10 per cent up on the same stage last year.