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Furious Wem Town are considering withdrawing from one of the showpiece occasions of the Shropshire football season.

Young striker Tom Bradshaw has handed Shrewsbury Town an injury scare ahead of Saturday’s trip to Aldershot by limping out of training with a knee injury.

All Freeview viewers in north Shropshire and parts of south Shropshire will today need to retune their TVs and boxes today in order to receive all channels as the first phase of the digital switchover got under way.

Police officers have defended their coverage of a rural area of Shropshire amid mounting criticism from councillors.

Shropshire County Show’s general manager is to take on a 26-mile challenge in a bid to ensure the society which runs the event survives for many generations to come.

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Demonstrators were left disappointed after planners in Bridgnorth approved a £2 million rubbish tip on a main route into the town, but say they will continue to fight the scheme.

A prisoner died after being found hanged in his cell, a Prison Service spokesman said today.

Large parts of Shropshire will today lose parts of their analogue television signal forever, with tens of thousands of households waking up to a new era of digital TV.

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Letter: I write in praise of Philip Larkin and Wellington librarians, past and present.

Letter: As a resident of Wellington I rang the Wellington Health Centre on February 8 to make an appointment to have my ears syringed.

A 30-year-old man missing from his home in Shrewsbury for more than a week has been found.

Promotion hopefuls AFC Telford United returned to winning ways with a convincing thrashing of Corby Town.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski today said he was “massively opposed” to plans which could see power pylons put up across Shropshire and Mid Wales.

A Shropshire post office manager stole more than £5,000 of its takings and went on a shopping spree at lingerie stores Ann Summers and La Senza.

The Shropshire Challenge Cup final will be played next Monday – avoiding a potential player eligibility issue.

He’s played the planet’s biggest venues and travelled worldwide as part of the rock ‘n’ roll jet set, so it seems faintly absurd that Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott is quite so familiar with, er, Gornal and Bilston. Ian Harvey finds out more.

A former Shropshire magistrates court – one of three in the county which closed last week because of Government spending cuts – could be sold off to the highest bidder, it emerged today.

Vandals have trashed the grave of a nine-year-old Shropshire schoolboy who died from a rare childhood cancer, leaving his family devastated.

Doctor Who star Matt Smith said he does not want to give up his role as the Time Lord “anytime soon”.

A fire which killed a six-year-old Shropshire girl and her father was not started deliberately, police said today. Kay-Leigh Cooke and her father Andrew Lineton, 33, died in the blaze in Briarwood, Brookside, Telford, on Sunday.

A Shropshire charity has seen its income plummet by a third in the past financial year, bosses have revealed.

Governors at two Shropshire schools being considered for merger plans under an education shake-up in the county have voted against becoming a combined body.

A quiet residential Shropshire street is being used as a rat-run following the closure of a main town centre route, causing mayhem for residents.

A Shropshire village is to get a post office again and it will be open for longer, it has been revealed. Residents in St Martins were devastated last year after hearing their post office was closing.

The new Shropshire Premier League bowls season has got off to a frustrating start – with Ford withdrawing from the first big competition of the year.

More than 100 placard-waving protesters fighting controversial plans for a new rubbish tip in Bridgnorth demonstrated at the proposed site today ahead of a crunch planning meeting.

CAMPAIGNERS WILL be taking the fight to save Shropshire schools to the Shirehall when they deliver petitions opposing the closure proposals.

Emily Browning has warned that her upcoming film, Sleeping Beauty, is not family-friendly.