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More and more young people are being forced to leave Shropshire because life in rural villages is disintegrating, according to a new investigation.

AFC Telford United were today drafting in dozens of volunteers – and a snow plough – in a bid to save tomorrow’s clash with Redditch.

The big freeze will give way to a brief thaw over the next few days as most of the country gets a break from the bitter cold.

Defiant boss Mick McCarthy today insisted beleaguered Wolves will win their Premier League survival battle, despite plunging to the bottom of the table.

With 100 days to go to one of the biggest changes in television viewing history – the digital switchover – households in Shropshire have been urged to get set for the end of analogue TV.

A woman was airlifted to hospital after a car crash on a Shropshire road.

Vernon Kay is apparently producer’s top choice to replace Bruce Forsyth on Strictly Come Dancing.

Boxing Day sales has got off to a traditionally frenetic start, boosted by people’s wish to buy before the impending rise in VAT.

Shrewsbury Town faced Christmas disappointment as their Boxing Day clash with Bury was postponed.

Store wars in a Shropshire town are heating up  after Sainsbury’s formally lodged a bid for a new supermarket with Shirehall officials.

A number of bus services running between Shrewsbury and Minsterley are to be axed following a review of travel operations in the area. The Friday and Saturday night services on the 552 Arriva route will be cut on January 2.

Shropshire health services are managing to cope under intense pressure but fresh appeals have been made to members of the public to do more to help themselves.

County actress Sophie Bould is far from home this Christmas – the first festive season she’s spent away from Shropshire.

It’s a case of one on, one off for the Boxing Day athletics races in Shropshire.

Shropshire’s Severn Hospice has received an early Christmas present after a generous resident left a £100,000 donation in his will.

A Shropshire couple have been forced to shut up shop for Christmas after more than 200 items of jewellery worth about £6,000 were stolen from their van.

Wine expert Oz Clarke and comedian Hugh Dennis were treated to a squirrel supper when they visited a historic pub on the south Shropshire border as part of a new TV series which will be aired in the new year.

A 57-year-old Shropshire man has been jailed for 12 months after leading police on a high speed car chase through a built up area of Telford.

A working group needs to be set up immediately to protect jobs at a Shropshire Ministry of Defence base, it was claimed today.

AFC Telford United’s trip to Stafford Rangers on Boxing Day has been postponed after a 3pm pitch inspection on Christmas Eve.

Father Christmas swopped his traditional reindeer and sleigh for a helicopter as he flew in to spread some Yuletide cheer among the children and staff at a Shropshire hospice.

An 18-year-old Shropshire man has appeared in court charged with arson with intent to endanger life.

Plans for a festive party at a Shropshire village hall are in tatters today after thieves stole copper piping and left the interior badly flooded.

It will be business as usual for AFC Telford on Boxing Day – whether their trip to Stafford Rangers goes ahead or not.

Boss Graham Turner is preparing Shrewsbury Town for a potential Christmas cracker at home to Bury on Boxing Day.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today admitted missing out on £3.5m West Ham-bound Villa midfielder Steve Sidwell – as he insisted Matt Jarvis and Steven Fletcher are not for sale.

Thousands of Shropshire and Mid Wales shoppers descended on butchers shops, stores and supermarkets today as a last-minute festive frenzy gripped the region.

An 18-year-old inmate has died in hospital after being found hanging in his cell in Shropshire, the Prison Service said.

Retailers have reported a sales bonanza as shoppers finally ventured out on a last-minute Christmas spending spree.

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