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A 20-year-old man today appeared in court charged with the murder of a Mid Wales teenager.

Llangollen’s International Musical Eisteddfod has been hit by the world recession and visa problems.

Pubs and clubs in Oswestry have been handed GHB tester kits for their premises in a bid to combat the use of the potentially lethal illegal drug.

UK Coal today said it would be heading to court to get an order to evict protesters from the company’s mining site in Telford.

Police investigating a hit-and-run road rage attack in Wellington town centre were today studying CCTV footage in an attempt to trace the driver of the car involved.

The proposed £150m shopping development in Shrewsbury, incorporating the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside centres, will mean huge changes for both visitors and business owners.

Councillors have voted to start formal consultation to close two Powys primary schools in a bid to save up to £200,000 a year.

Five pupils were excluded from a top-rated Shropshire school after drugs were found. Police today said they had been informed and will work with staff to monitor the situation.

Boss Graham Turner is eyeing three more signings to complete his Shrewsbury Town rebuilding programme for next season.

AFC Telford United could be set to steal a march on a host of professional clubs by offering a deal to former Wolves reserve team skipper Nathan Rooney.

Wolves are set to join Albion in a Black Country battle for Birmingham defender Liam Ridgewell.

Villa have rejected an opening £15m bid for Stewart Downing from Liverpool.

With its empty shops, boarded-up hotel and estate agents’ boards, is Market Drayton the most abandoned town centre in Shropshire?

Four people were taken to hospital today after a crash between a car and lorry on the A483 near the Shropshire/Welsh border.

Letter: Having recently been diagnosed diabetic, I decided to take up walking to improve my health.

Letter: In Pant, near Oswestry, we are lucky, we have a busy rural village shop run by the Co-operative. They have just refurbished it and it now looks every inch the corporate retail outlet. They no doubt hope this will improve the shop’s takings.

A Shropshire teenager has become one of only nine people in the UK to be invited to a prestigious YouTube convention in a five-star Los Angeles hotel.

Police today arrested a second man on suspicion of murdering an 87-year-old Shropshire pensioner.

Sharon Walters reviews the Fiat Doblo, which might not be the prettiest looking car, but does exactly what you want it for.

Blog: The Royal tour of Canada is certainly hitting the headlines, with in-depth coverage on what William and Kate are getting up to on their trip.

A Shropshire man who used his village home as a laboratory to produce Class A drugs for distribution in London has been jailed for more than three years.

As he lay dying, mortally wounded by shell splinters, Shropshire soldier James Lawton repeatedly called out to his colleagues for water

Controversial plans to build up to 250 homes in Shrewsbury have moved a step closer.

An initial blueprint has been tabled for Shropshire cricket’s biggest revamp for a generation.

Shropshire’s top rugby union team are on collision course with an England World Cup winner next season.

Dismissal letters have been sent to about 6,500 Shropshire Council employees in a bitter row over a proposed 5.4 per cent pay cut, it was revealed today.

The parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been contacted by detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

An action-packed programme of events is lined up for this weekend’s Newport Show.

The debate on a future Oswestry supermarket will continue when the clerk of Oswestry Town Council meets with traders.

The chairman of Telford Steam Railway was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after his legs were crushed by a piece of railway track.