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Market Drayton has lost out to “Meerkat Harborough” in the race to be twinned with the home village of the famous meerkat character who fronts television adverts.

A campaign group has been launched to fight plans to build five luxury homes near Ludlow’s 800-year-old St Laurence’s Church.

Wolves today offered a clear financial reminder of the price of Premier League status after confirming a £9.1m profit on their first season back in the top flight.

Welshpool’s new one-way system is to be resurfaced – just days after opening.

Tests are being carried out to see whether a speed camera at the notorious Shotatton crossroads on the A5 was damaged in a failed arson attack.

Shropshire table tennis ace Damien Nicholls heads for next month’s National Championships in the form of his life.

A couple from the Shropshire border cheated death in the devastating New Zealand earthquake by taking refuge beneath a table as Christchurch Cathedral came crashing down around them.

A teenager who burgled a pregnant woman’s Shropshire home and stole jewellery including a pendant with a lock of her late son’s hair has been sent to a young offenders’ institute for 20 months.

A woman in her 40s was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a two-car crash on the south Shropshire border.

The owner of a hearing dog for the deaf which was inside a vehicle stolen from a Shropshire petrol station today offered a reward for her safe return.

Babies and mothers from Mid Wales could die in ambulances on the way to Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital if a planned shake-up by NHS bosses goes ahead, a senior midwife has claimed.

A Mid Wales headteacher, who was suspended while a police and county council investigation took place, is back in post.

Fifteen homes were evacuated for a short time following a gas leak in Wem.

Tough task-master Andy Sinton is urging AFC Telford United to prove that their stunning display against Alfreton was no flash in the pan.

Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is to create 80 jobs at its Telford store as part of plans to extend the site by more than 50 per cent.

A driver had a lucky escape after his car ended up underneath a lorry in a smash on a main road near the Shropshire border today.

Young and old came together to clap, cheer and wave sticks in the air as the ever popular Disney on Ice returned to Birmingham.

I’m currently half way through doing a research paper for college, writes teen issues blogger Liam Thomas. It’s on the attitudes that people have towards young people. 

Mayor of Christchurch Bob Parker has not given up hope of finding people alive, two days after an earthquake struck the city.

My Chemical Romance were crowned this year’s biggest winners at the NME Awards. The band picked up two high profile gongs.

Simply scintillating! In one night of drama and passion AFC Telford United may not quite have blown the Blue Square Bet North title race wide open, but they have certainly exposed a chink of light.

Thieves drove off from a Bridgnorth petrol station in a customer’s vehicle with his hearing dog and £10,000 of equipment inside, police said today.

Some of Shropshire’s most senior doctors today warned of “dire consequences” if changes are not made to how services are delivered at the county’s two main hospitals.

Council bosses are to build more than 20 children’s play areas in Shropshire this year at a cost of nearly £1.5 million, it was revealed today.

A serial burglar who broke into a number of homes in a Shropshire town while the occupants were asleep has been jailed for 16 months.

Low-cost supermarket Aldi today announced its third store in Telford will open its doors on April 14.

The Princess Royal visited Shrewsbury today to hear about the work of the YSS, of which she is patron.

Booming numbers of abandoned and unwanted cats in Shropshire have forced a charity to stop accepting any more, it was revealed today.

The Princess Royal’s Shropshire visit was delayed by half an hour today — because of appalling weather in Lancashire where she had been visiting a prison.

The headteacher of a Mid Wales primary school, who was suspended at the end of January, has been reinstated.