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Six people were injured in a collision involving a car in Shrewsbury town centre.

The celebratory punch of the air from usually understated boss Graham Turner said it all, writes James Garrison.

It was like a plot from a movie, an action thriller featuring dodgy defending, fine finishing and unrelenting drama, writes Alex James.

A man who stopped for a lie down on a bench on the way home from a night out in Telford fell asleep – and was woken by two other men punching him in the face and robbing him.

A controversial scheme to build 85 properties at a Wellington school today came under fire before the proposals have even been lodged.

A Shrewsbury community centre which former town mayor Eileen Sandford MBE helped to get built is to be renamed in her honour.

Carpet company Brintons, which employs hundreds of people in Telford, has been saved from the brink of collapse by a £40 million buyout.

These pictures show the crazy world of Citroen, who have taken the standard fare for designing concept cars – shiny paintwork, bright colours, sci-fi interiors – and then decided to do something a little bit different.

Gardeners were handed awards for their prize-winning vegetables and flowers at a show in Telford. Exhibitors battled it out in dozens of categories at the Dawley Bank Flower and Vegetable Show.

A music festival in Shrewsbury has proved a big success and helped to raise about £10,000 for charity, organisers said today.

Thousands of foodies from across Mid Wales and further afield flocked to the annual Welsh Food Festival.

A Welshpool councillor who claims he was nearly run over on the town’s controversial one-way traffic system has urged other people to contact him with their tales of woe.

Shrewsbury Town fans began getting their hands on tickets for the Carling Cup tie against Arsenal today as they went on sale at the club’s ground.

Town may have suffered cup disappointment in the week but the players are starting to gel in the league, writes Shrewsbury Town blogger James Pugh.

Tributes were this afternoon paid to a “gifted” Telford teacher who died suddenly aged just 45 after collapsing on a golf course days before he was due to return to work after the summer break.

Shropshire darter Steve Farmer came within a whisker of notching one of the biggest victories of his career.

Thrilled manager Graham Turner has hailed Shrewsbury Town’s powers of recovery after they bounced back from a testing start to the season to break into League Two’s top five.

A pensioner and her dog today died in a huge blaze which destroyed a south Shropshire home.

Campaigners hoping to save the Wakeman School have pledged to appeal against any decision to close it.

ROB HUGHES: What a downbeat journey home that was after a ludicrous rollercoaster of a game.

Shropshire’s Concord College is celebrating again after being named the highest ranking private school in the county for GCSE results.

Schoolchildren made a return today to the Abraham Darby Academy less than two weeks since a steel canopy collapsed at the site of the new school.

Steam railway enthusiasts from around the world were among hundreds of visitors who converged on Mid Wales at the weekend.

A Mid Wales campaign group leader has become the latest to hit out at claims by Welsh Assembly transport minister Carl Sergeant that traffic problems in Newtown had improved.

Whitchurch today became the final market town in Shropshire to implement new off-street parking charges.

Council bosses have pledged to help underachieving children at a school on the Shropshire border which has gone under new management with an Interim Executive Board (IEB).

A Shrewsbury Town footballer who was caught using a mobile phone at the wheel escaped a driving ban because he said he needed his car to get to training sessions.

COUNCIL TAX payers in rural areas are being charged more than people living in cities – but getting less in return.

Police and trading standards officers joined forces in a clampdown on under-age drinking in Oswestry, patrolling streets on Saturday to push home the proof of age ID scheme and stop over-18s buying booze for younger drinkers

A cloud of gloom hung over Shropshire bowls today after a disappointing Crosfield Cup final defeat, writes MALCOLM FLETCHER.