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Shirehall leaders have backed a pay freeze for Shropshire Council staff and a series of changes to employment terms and conditions aimed at saving millions of pounds a year.

Planners have given the final go-ahead for a new Telford & Wrekin Council civic headquarters to be built in the town centre.

Campaigners failed in a last-ditch bid today to stop a controversial £5 million biomass plant being built in south Shropshire.

Shrewsbury Town’s long-term injury victim Nathan Elder is confident he is on course for a return to full training by the start of February.

AFC Telford United are moving to tie up one of their biggest assets – by putting former Wolves striker Adam Proudlock on contract.

The cupboard in this Shropshire kitchen looks more inviting than the oven for this young turkey. But Red needn’t fear the chop this Christmas.

A plea made by Oswestry traders for a week of free parking to boost last-minute Christmas sales has been rejected by town councillors.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today kicked off the countdown to Sunday’s derby against Birmingham by insisting more than three points are at stake.

A Shropshire woman was left in tears after her garden was destroyed when a lorry left the road and collided with a stone wall.

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates may not have known what he was doing after allegedly attacking paramedics trying to treat him following a fall down a flight of stairs, a court heard.

Returning snooker star John Higgins today targeted a fairytale comeback to snooker with a third 12Bet.com UK Championship crown in Shropshire this weekend.

Thousands of tickets for next year’s V Festival at Weston Park went on sale today with music fans across the country trying to snap them up.

Coronation Street stars were at the centre of a security alert today amid reports that the soap’s 50th anniversary live show was being targeted by Al Qaeda.

Two former schoolfriends who lost touch with each other for almost 30 years are to marry in Shropshire this weekend after being reunited on Facebook.

A new £1.6 million brewery in north Shropshire will be launched this weekend.

Residents living on the Lake Vyrnwy Estate have launched a petition to support businessman Rhys Jones who has put in a bid for the area’s 125-year lease.

One of the best bowlers outside the Furrows Shropshire Premier League has moved a step closer to having a crack at it.

Dramatic amateur footage of a cruise ship being buffeted by 30ft waves in high seas off the Antarctic peninsula.

Fresh from his star role in the second Ashes test, Kevin Pietersen has been fined for speeding after taking a loaned Lamborghini for a drive on a day off from England training.

Another selection of chilly winter photographs sent in by Shropshire Star readers.

Campaigners in a Shropshire town were today set to make their final plea to councillors in a last-ditch bid to stop a controversial £5 million biomass plant from being built.

Parish council chiefs in part of Telford have axed an annual Christmas box scheme which offers free supermarket vouchers to hard-pressed pensioners.

Fire chiefs in Shropshire will sit down next week to consider a blueprint setting out ways of saving £3 million over the next four years to offset government spending cuts.

A Mid Wales politician was repeatedly hit by another man moments before falling down a flight of stairs in a restaurant, a court has heard.

A factory worker from Telford was jailed for life today for stabbing a colleague to death following a petty row.

A Christmas card shop in Shrewsbury has raised just over £50,000 for charity with organisers thanking the public for a “brilliant” effort.

Christmas shoppers in Shrewsbury could hardly believe their eyes when a huge Welsh dragon appeared in the town centre today, bringing traffic to a halt.

At the beginning of November, Telford began to experience a rise in commercial crime especially cigarette burglaries in Telford, writes Detective Chief Inspector Alan Edwards.

Arguably the most exciting portmanteau word in the English language at the moment is ‘kinect’.

I am sure future students across Shropshire are furious at the thought of having to fork out up to £9,000 a year to go to university but there is one way of getting out of it – don’t go writes Jason Lavan.