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“This is my life. I have a wife and a cat. I also have a tortoise, but he’s not funny.”

Carla Bruni, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has given birth to a baby girl.

Moves have begun to build a memorial to the Oswestry men who served in some of Britain’s most significant battles.

The historic site of the Battle of Shrewsbury would not suffer ‘substantial harm’ from the creation of a £60 million incinerator 200 metres away from it, a planning appeal has heard.

Shropshire schoolgirl Hayley Forrester hopes to wow viewers and impress Lord Sugar as a Young Apprentice.

A masked gang who carried out a six-month campaign of night-time raids on small shops across Shropshire, stealing more than £60,000 worth of cigarettes, have been jailed.

Late goals have certainly proved painful – and very costly – for AFC Telford United in the last month.

More than 370 complaints about dog fouling were made to Powys County Council in 2010, it was revealed today.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski is to meet with health chiefs in a bid to help save a medical practice facing potential demolition under £150 million plans to build a new shopping complex in the town.

Two firefighters have been taken to hospital after being injured as they rescued a woman from her burning home in Telford.

Bridgnorth Town Council has agreed to cover up controversial parking meters on the town’s Severn Park after becoming ‘embarrassed’ by the number of complaints it has received.

Take a look at what Police and Shropshire Council’s trading standards department discovered when they took to the streets in north Shropshire.

A Shropshire woman has launched a campaign to prevent her 19-year-old Turkish boyfriend from being deported after he stayed in the country illegally.

Police raided an Oswestry house in a series of dawn drug raids across the UK.

Water company Severn Trent will be meeting Lake Vyrnwy residents in public for the first time since announcing the sale of the lease for the land around the reservoir in mid Wales.

Can anyone beat Peter Farmer in the Burway Open?

Pictures from local Shropshire football matches

The Shrewsbury Toy Run will be taking place this year, organisers have confirmed.

Hollywood film star Verne Troyer is coming to a Shropshire nightclub this weekend.

Is it just me, or is the BBC gradually getting more depressing each evening?

Striker Marvin Morgan is turning to superstition to end his five-game Shrewsbury Town goal drought – by lacing up a new pair of boots.

Blog: The 94th minute is most definitely not our best friend, writes AFC Telford blogger Dan Clark.

Boss Andy Sinton refused to be downbeat after seeing his side sunk by an injury-time own goal at Forest Green Rovers, insisting: “Our luck will turn.”

Straight-talking Mick McCarthy today opened his heart to Wolves fans to insist: “I’m hurting as much as anyone”.

The headteacher of a Mid Wales primary school who was suspended 18 months ago has been dismissed.

Powys County Council’s budget settlement from the Welsh Assembly has been cut by more than £1 million, it was revealed today.

Dudleston Heath Horse Show has been axed because of a lack of support – bringing the curtain down on fifty years of history.

A junior football league at the centre of a results row is continuing to censor match scores to avoid embarrassing young players.

Shrewsbury’s historic Flax Mill has been named as one of the most at-risk industrial heritage buildings in the country – one month before a new multi-million pound bid for funding to regenerate the site goes in.

Revised pay cut plans have been put to thousands of Shropshire Council workers. Bosses have offered to limit next year’s pay cut to a maximum of 1.9 per cent.