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Young Shrewsbury Town striker Tom Bradshaw could take the first steps on the comeback trail with a reserves outing against Wolves on Wednesday.

Shropshire will bring down the curtain on their Minor Counties Championship campaign at Oswestry – after their final game was switched.

Rescue operations are being carried out to save fish in Shropshire’s River Teme due to fears of plummeting water levels.

Publicans believe a campaign to rid the streets of the potentially fatal drug GHB has helped lower the number of users in Oswestry.

Regularly updated coverage of this afternoon’s protest by the English Defence League in Wellington.

Shrewsbury Town have been drawn away at Walsall in the first round of the Johnstone Trophy northern section draw.

SHOPPERS AND traders deserted Wellington in Telford today as businesses boarded up windows and shut up shop ahead of a planned protest by the English Defence League.

Emergency services were called to Shrewsbury today after reports of a person in difficulty in the River Severn. They were called out just before 5am.

The Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford has taken delivery of a 44-year-old RAF Hercules plane. The Hercules C130K mark three aircraft is one of the last remaining planes of its kind in active service.

Chester Road are now breathing down the necks of the leaders after the race for the Furrows Shropshire Premier Bowls League crown was thrown wide open following last night’s action.

Petrol and diesel retailers today defended rising prices at the pumps at a time when the cost of crude oil was falling.

Shrewsbury Flower Show organisers said they were hopeful of a bumper attendance today on the final day of this year’s extravaganza.

Letter: Shrewsbury, like many other market towns, has had a tough couple of years but does appear to be coming through difficult financial times in reasonably good shape.

Letter: A supermarket with more than 400 parking spaces is not just going to sell food and encourage people to go into Newport for the rest of their purchases.

Lorry drivers and farmers are facing the misery of diversions of as much as 30 miles when an historic river bridge closes from Saturday for up to three weeks.

The cash-strapped Irish government must be cheering from the rooftops. Monty Halls, that down-to-earth everyman who women of a certain age can’t help but adore, and who men find themselves grudgingly admiring, has arrived.

Fuel prices are a rip-off scandal and we’re all paying. Oil companies are slurping up huge profits and the Government is slurping up huge amounts in tax as motorists are fleeced at every opportunity.

Home Secretary Theresa May today banned a planned march in Wellington by the English Defence League – but organisers this afternoon vowed they would still protest in the town.

A 20-year-old Telford man who raped a woman three times after dragging her into undergrowth near a freight rail line was today locked up indefinitely.

Three people were badly hurt in a five-car pile-up which brought a main road through Shropshire to a halt today.

Shrewsbury Town chief Graham Turner has urged his Carling Cup heroes to come “back down to earth” for tomorrow’s League Two trip to Burton Albion.

Petrol and diesel prices in Shropshire today varied by more than 13p a litre as supermarkets triggered a fresh price war in the cut-throat battle for trade.

A 200-year-old Shropshire house has been completely destroyed in a fire. Sweney Cliff House, in Coalport, thought to be worth more than £900,000, was gutted by the blaze which started at about 11.15pm yesterday

Giantkillers Shrewsbury Town have been handed a tasty clash with Premier League new boys Swansea City in the second round of the Carling Cup.

The paddling pool in Shrewsbury’s Quarry is to reopen this Sunday, Shropshire Council has today revealed.

A truck trapped under a bridge held up drivers during the rush hour in Shrewsbury this morning.

Skipper Shane Killock has drawn a line under AFC Telford United’s first game frustration – insisting they have already turned their sights on Cambridge United.

Italian celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo was cooking up a storm at Shrewsbury Flower Show got under way today.

Twenty jobs are to be created with the opening of a discount supermarket in Bridgnorth.

The last remaining Cotswold clothes shop in the country is to close in Ludlow, the firm said today.