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AFC Telford chairman Lee Carter has fears for the health of Blue Square Bet North football – predicting the cold snap could force another club out of business.

Snooker’s Mark Selby believes the standard of snooker has never been better.

Drivers have been warned to take freezing fog into account when making journeys over the next few days as forecasters warned there would be little respite from the wintry weather.

A 44-year-old man today admitted defrauding Shropshire Primary Care Trust and the Powys Local Health Board out of thousands of pounds.

Hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects at the funeral of a Shropshire serviceman who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan on Remembrance Sunday.

Watch our latest goal of the week – Nicky Chinn’s effort for Basingstoke Bison in last night’s win over Telford Tigers.

An army wife who organised a show of support in Shropshire for county troops serving in Afghanistan has been left “extremely disappointed” after she was forced to cancel the event.

A taxi driver was assaulted as he was parked outside a hotel in Telford.

A main road in Welshpool was closed off for essential gas works today, leaving motorists facing the prospect of more traffic misery in the town.

Snooker’s Mark Allen believes some of snooker’s latest non-ranking tournaments may not be taken seriously by the players.

Thousands of people arrived in Oswestry to watch the town’s annual Christmas parade which has raised £18,000 for charity.

A Telford woman who helped to build the famous Hollywood-style sign in Dawley has died aged 34.

Shrewsbury’s Reference Library could be axed as part of Shropshire Council’s cost-cutting drive, bosses at the Shirehall confirmed today.

D­etails of tough new safety measures introduced at a factory in Wem hit by three major fires in the last two years will be scrutinised at a public meeting today.

Hundreds of people got into the Christmas spirit this weekend in Welshpool at the town’s lights switch-on and Winter Festival.

A 12-year-old boy ran home fearing that someone was following him after a car pulled up on a road in Shropshire and the driver offered him a lift.

Work was expected to begin today on a £250 million scheme to transform the centre of Telford.

Bullet For My Valentine are shooting to Birmingham tonight for a gig at the city’s NIA. James Watkins caught up with bass player John James.

What is the best mindset a salesperson can have? And how do you avoid some of the less complimentary stereotypes that you hear about people working in sales asks Dennis Kennedy.

Letter: This poem was written by a peacekeeping soldier stationed overseas. The following is his request.

Winners or losers this weekend’s reality television was packed with women who have given the fairer sex something to feel great about this morning, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

Bright youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds could have part of their university tuition fees paid for them.

Snooker fans in Telford were keen to nail their colours to the mast as the 12Bet.com UK Championships got under way at the International Centre.

A woman has died in a crash on the M54 near Albrighton.

She was one of England’s best known landladies who had run one of the oldest parlour pubs in the country and now she is to be immortalised on a limited edition mug.

A Shropshire photographer has won a national competition for these two close-up pictures of insects he took while out and about in the county.

Snow, rural broadband, the World Cup and Coronation Street’s 50th anniversary are among the stories making the headlines in a busy week for the podcast team.

Hundreds of manuscripts belonging to a Shropshire businessman have been ruined —after vandals allegedly left a bath running while trashing the flat above his premises.

Shropshire people are being urged to have the “jab” as flu levels begin to rise across the county. Health experts are seeing two main strains this winter.

A woman has died and two people were taken to hospital following a two-car crash in Shropshire today.