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Protesters today launched an online campaign urging the Government to call in the decision to build Oswestry’s new supermarket at the town’s Smithfield livestock site.

Favourites Market Drayton Town have been handed home advantage in the quarter-finals of the Shropshire Challenge Cup.

Staff at a Shropshire care home have claimed beds available for the elderly are not being filled due to problems with red tape.

Plans to build 35 homes on the site of a former rubber factory in Shropshire have been approved.

Tributes were today paid to a teenager who died after collapsing on playing fields during a PE lesson at a Shropshire school.

Unemployment has fallen by 9,000, but the number of people working part-time because they could not find a full-time job has reached a record high, new figures showed today.

American rockers Paramore arrived in the West Midlands for one of the region’s biggest and best gigs of the year. Our man was there.

Telford pensioner Eva Ludlum could lose much of the view from her bungalow in New Works when open cast mining operations start in earnest over the next few months.

Remember last winter? If you were among the thousands stranded by extreme weather, you’ll know just how important it is to go prepared, writes Ray Castle of motors.co.uk.

A 12-year-old girl was in hospital today following an alleged assault at a school in Shropshire.

Blists Hill Victorian Town near Ironbridge has been used as the backdrop for a pop band’s bid to top the Christmas charts.

Work on a £1.5 million development to transform a Shropshire estate is due to start next month – about six years after cash was set aside towards the scheme by a parish council.

The heat is off Shropshire’s Ted Hankey when he completes his round-robin matches at the Grand Slam of Darts at Wolverhampton’s Civic Hall tonight.

Shrewsbury Town boss Graham Turner has urged his team to be “guarded” as they aim to build on their rise to the automatic promotion spots in the run-up to Christmas.

Ambitious £500,000 plans to double the size of a supermarket in a south Shropshire town have met with objections.

Optimistic AFC Telford United striker Alex Meechan believes he is winning his winning his battle with the mystery back injury that saw him admitted to hospital.

The family of a Shropshire soldier killed in Afghanistan on Remembrance Sunday today expressed thanks for the enormous support they have received.

Jungle star Lembit Opik is no longer the Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Montgomeryshire, the party said today.

A number of youths have been arrested following a spate of vandalism in a Mid Wales town.

Blog: A gift of love or a most terrible omen?

Now there’s been no shortage of female admirers for Former Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik. Yes it’s a mystery to me too but I did think his decision to take a trip to the jungle might shed some light on the subject.

It’s a record breaker! We had plenty of response from readers after we published this photo from Shrewsbury’s Russell Mulford, who wanted to know more about this car on the back of a Sentinel steam wagon, writes Toby Neal.

Comedian Jenny Eclair today became the second star to scrap a gig in Shropshire to enter the TV jungle and join I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!

Telford Tigers took on Swindon Wildcats looking for their second win of the season.

The two largest public sector unions are to hold a rally in Wellington tomorrow to protest against planned Government cuts.

Prince William says there is ‘no pressure’ on fiancee Kate Middleton to emulate his mother.

After announcing their engagement, the couple give their first in-depth interview, starting with how Prince William proposed….

A goal from Adam Proudlock was enough to secure victory for AFC Telford United against struggling Workington.

Letter: There is an increasing tendency among the young to use the rising inflection. This is when a speaker, by raising their voice at the end of a sentence, turns a straight forward statement into a question.

Letter: This week my dear wife will be 71 years of age, the following day I will be 73. Our combined pension is the amount which the Government has determined to be the sum needed for us to be able to live on.