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Organisers of the Shrewsbury Lions Fun Day have spoken of their "disappointment" after the event was cancelled for the first time in its 40-year history

Loose and dirty - there's no mistaking how shoppers like their potatoes

JAMES SHAW finds an oasis in a former coaching inn just a step from the busy A5

SHARON WALTERS enjoys a buffet bursting with good taste

A car ploughed into a Shropshire shop causing thousands of pounds of damage and rupturing a gas main.

A Russian spacecraft is preparing for its mission to the International Space Station.

Germany have said that the E.coli outbreak is likely to have been caused by beansprouts grown in the country.

Letter: It is my great regret that our Hydro Pool Club has recently ceased operating after nine years and after having donated in excess of £40,000 to the Princess Royal Hospital by running sessions at its hydrotherapy pool.

Letter: I found it quite incredible to read that putting the wrong fuel in police cars had cost forces in Wales almost £20,000 in three years, while Dyfed-Powys had the fewest incidents since January 2008 at 20.

Figures show there are hundreds of thousands fewer bus journeys in Shropshire compared to five years ago, it was revealed today.

About one in 20 beds at Shropshire’s two main hospitals are being occupied by patients who do not need to be there, it was claimed today.

Letter: As we are being repeatedly reminded, Bob Dylan is 70 and I’m fed up of often being told that he is a genius.

Sometimes could really hate the people behind Doctor Who.

Bosses at bank branches in Shrewsbury under threat due to plans by Tesco to extend its Extra store in the town today said they had not been told about the scheme.

Firefighters were called after a car crashed into a shop on the high street of a Shropshire town, rupturing the gas supply.

Lee Mills has returned to Shropshire football – just two weeks after resigning as Bridgnorth manager.

Plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across miles of Shropshire and Mid Wales countryside could invade the landscape and devastate communities, an MP has warned.

Shropshire cricket captain Ed Foster will demand no let-up from his on-song team in tomorrow’s ‘dead rubber’ at Cumberland.

Former Aston Villa skipper Dennis Mortimer wants club owner Randy Lerner to appoint a British manager in succession to Gerard Houllier.

A company has been ordered to pay £20,000 after its director and two self-employed workers were exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres during work on a factory in Oswestry.

A body has been pulled from the Shropshire Union Canal on the north Shropshire border, police said today.

This year’s big Shropshire vintage rally got under way today as delighted officials revealed a late surge of entries meant they were expecting a near-record turnout for the event.

Telford-based e-learning specialist Pebble Learning scooped the top honour at this year’s Shropshire Business Awards.

Councillors in Tenbury Wells are considering spending hundreds of pounds on ceremonial gowns to wear at official functions, it was revealed today.

A relieved Ludlow man has been reunited with his beloved cat after she was found walking the streets of Dudley – an amazing 35 miles from home.

A grade II-listed country house set in 26 acres in Shropshire has gone on the market with a price tag of £1.25 million.

Graduates from across the West Midlands and beyond headed to the NEC Birmingham for the National Graduate Recruitment Exhibition, which will again welcome students looking for to enter the world of work today.

Unfortunately, the lack of parents at the open evening at Rhyn Park School was not a surprise to me.

Blog: The queue to watch a screening at the Palladium cinema of Summer Holiday starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows, stretched from the front steps of building and all the way down a side street.

Blog: Much to their embarrassment, Shropshire MPs Daniel Kawczynski and Owen Paterson were this week named among the Top Fifty sexiest MPs.