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MPs across Shropshire submitted their lowest ever claims for expenses in April and May this year, according to figures released today. The six regional MPs claimed £2,060.95 – or £33.79 per day.

The controversial Quantum Leap sculpture in Shrewsbury has an important role to play in attracting visitors interested in Charles Darwin to the town, it has been claimed.

A trio of former England stars will be guests at a special cricket dinner in Shropshire. Ashley Giles, Derek Pringle and Angus Fraser – who have played 130 Tests between them – will feature in a Shropshire County Cricket Club sportsman’s dinner on Thursday, November 10.

Hundreds of tickets for a talk at Wellington Literary Festival by novelist and playwright Fay Weldon have been quickly snapped up.

A man who had cheques totalling £8,000 for Help for Heroes stolen from his home in Buildwas today said the charity for wounded servicemen would still get most of the money.

Shropshire will be the second worst-hit of 132 areas in England and Wales under the Government’s proposed cuts to legal aid, a charity claimed today.

A Shropshire conman who spent thousands of pounds of investors’ savings on a jet-set lifestyle was being hunted by police today after going on the run from his Old Bailey trial.

Campaigners’ calls for a referendum on plans for a new multi-million pound Tesco superstore in Tenbury Wells have been snubbed after it was claimed a poll would cost taxpayers £1,300.

Tributes were paid this afternoon to the former chairman of one of Shropshire’s biggest manufacturing firms, who has died after a battle with cancer.

It’s a baking hot August afternoon at Paris’s Gare du Nord, and all around there are people heading home for the weekend.

Shropshire’s Cheltenham Festival heroes Noland and Neptune Collonges will be retired at the end of this season – but not before taking aim at two of National Hunt racing’s biggest prizes, writes JAMES GARRISON.

Are our high streets doomed?

The new regional director of the National Farmers Union today pledged to ensure farmers’ voices were heard.

Almost one out of every five households in Telford & Wrekin had no-one in work during 2010, according to new figures released today.

The high-profile trial of Michael Jackson’s former doctor, Conrad Murray is getting underway in Los Angeles. He has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Shropshire Council had the final say on the decision to push ahead with the creation of the controversial Quantum Leap structure, the leader of Shrewsbury Town Council has claimed.

AMBITIOUS?PLANS to run a mini-monorail through the streets of Oswestry have hit the buffers after a bid for nearly £100,000 to fund the scheme was refused.

New air quality testing equipment has been installed in Bishops’s Castle to monitor emissions from the town’s controversial £5 million biomass plant, it has been revealed.

Photos from the Wolves training session ahead of Saturday’s visit of Tottenham Hotspur to Molineux.

A man in his 50s was airlifted to hospital after his car smashed into a tree in Oswestry town centre.

Officials at Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School today said they would launch a legal challenge to save it – 24 hours after Shropshire Council agreed its closure.

New AFC Telford United striker Chris Sharp is confident there is more to come from him – and the club – as he settles into life in the Blue Square Premier.

It could be a scene from London or any other major city hit by last month’s riots.

Espresso, cappuccino, latte; whatever your poison, if you're a self-confessed coffee fiend, this selection of homewares should get you buzzing.

Well, that's it. The kids are back at school, and attention now turns to the term ahead. Beyond the new subject matter in the classroom there is the burning question of what's attracting attention at break times, which collectables are hot property, and what's hot to swap?

The heating button isn't the only thing you should be getting acquainted with around about now. Autumn/winter's new trends are ready and waiting for your big wardrobe switchover. And, chosen wisely, they're all you need to feel fashionably warm and fuzzy.

Up to 200 residents are expected to pack into a crunch meeting tonight to discuss Cleobury Mortimer’s long-awaited new £1 million medical practice.

Tomorrow is the final day for Shropshire Council staff to respond to a strike-ballot in a dispute with the authority over a 5.4 per cent pay cut.

Dozens of youngsters were stranded in Welshpool after the town’s bus service failed to pick them up from school.

Mick McCarthy today warned buoyant Wolves that Tottenham will be ‘smarting’ on Saturday – but vowed to attack them.