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The dangers of taking GHB will be highlighted by students in Oswestry tomorrow.

Council chiefs have begun talks with staff at three offices of a young people’s help group in Telford and Wrekin over proposed redundancies.

Shrewsbury’s historic Flax Mill has missed out on more than £12 million of vital cash from the Heritage Lottery Fund officials have announced today.

Blog: So the world turns and the seasons change, empires rise and fall. And through it all, here I am, still in hospital . . .

Letter: I have my phone with Virgin Media and I have my bills online. As their call centres are in India and I am hard of hearing and cannot understand accents, I use e-mails if I have anything wrong.

For five short but glorious minutes, Shrewsbury Town dared believe it would be their day.

In front of more than 3,000 ecstatic AFC Telford United fans, manager Andy Sinton made a big promise.

Shropshire’s county flag will fly at half-mast at the Shirehall on the day of former Mayor of Shrewsbury Eileen Sandford’s funeral.

A stunning display from captain Ed Foster helped Shropshire to a superb triumph at Northumberland to put one foot in the MCCA Trophy quarter-finals.

TELFORD’S LABOUR party has axed its leader just two days after he led them to victory in the borough elections.

A historic bridge in a south Shropshire town is closed from today for up to three weeks while engineers tackle its frost-damaged masonry.

Jobs at a Mid Wales supermarket are being advertised in Slovakia.

The “clinical brutality” of Shropshire cricket captain Ed Foster was today hailed after he steered his side to the brink of the quarter-finals of the one-day Minor Counties competition.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today insisted he was proved right in his shock axeing of Matt Jarvis for Stephen Hunt in the win against Albion.

AFC Telford United are anticipating a sell-out for Sunday’s promotion play-off final against Guiseley, with boss Andy Sinton today insisting: “We’ve achieved nothing yet.”

A Shropshire firm today unveiled major expansion plans as part of a move to boost its turnover by nearly £6 million in the next four years and create a large number of jobs.

Rating ***: Tracey O’Sullivan went to Wem for her birthday and had a less than happy return.

A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after his bike was involved in a collision with a car in north Shropshire.

Motorists who have been given parking tickets on Ellesmere’s new pay and display car parks are to be given refunds.

Rating **** Cathy Stanworth goes back to the crease for a delicious meal.

Passenger numbers on Shropshire’s Severn Valley Railway are up again, after last year’s knock-back due to the recession.

Captain Ian Sharps today insisted in-form Shrewsbury Town are ready for their play-off challenge after their automatic promotion near miss.

Flexible working pattens are to be introduced for workers at Powys County Council, the biggest employer in Powys, in a bid to protect frontline services and jobs, it emerged today.

Watch Britain’s Got Talent contestants DNA in action during the 2009 Telford’s Got Talent competition.

Young Sam Gwilliams is aiming to take the world golfing scene by storm later this year at a tournament in the United States.

Rating: ** While on the look out for a fast feed, our reviewer Andy Richardson was left disappointed.

SHROPSHIRE MP Owen Paterson today urged the Government to reclassify the drug GHB after it was linked to two deaths in the county.

AFC Telford United fans were in the mood to celebrate after their side’s win over Nuneaton in the Blue Square Bet North play-off semi-finals.

Economic recovery? Sorry, you’re in the wrong place, writes blogger David Burrows.

Vince Cable has described his coalition colleagues in the Conservative Party as “ruthless, calculating and tribal”.