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Cancer charity chiefs today vowed they would raise their concerns to health bosses about plans to merge two units at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, resulting in the loss of a number of beds.

Shropshire’s Muller Dairy hosted the world’s most famous talking car at the launch of its new marketing campaign.

Householders in Telford could face an increase in their council tax rates next year despite pledges of a freeze from the Chancellor George Osborne.

Oswestry traders are calling for car parking charges to be waived during late night shopping in the town in the run-up to Christmas.

The nephew of Hilda Murrell, the Shrewsbury rose grower whose murder in 1984 sparked a host of conspiracy theories and claims of an Establishment cover-up, has called for a reopening of the case because of ‘explosive new evidence’.

A dramatic injury time winner from Lionel Ainsworth helped Shrewsbury make it six Greehnous Meadow victories on the trot to break Barnet’s hearts.

AFC Telford United’s five-game unbeaten run came to an end as they slipped to defeat at a rain-soaked Holker Street.

The widow of a founding member of the Lingen Davies Cancer Centre Appeal today branded plans to merge a cancer ward with another at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital as a ‘dreadful’ idea.

More than 100 Only Fools and Horses fans queued up at a county book store yesterday to meet the man behind one of the most-loved characters in the long-running comedy.

AFC Telford United manager Andy Sinton will roll back the years by donning the boots tomorrow – in aid of his former Wolves colleague Matt Murray.

A junior football league with thousands of players across Shropshire has stopped publishing match results to avoid embarrassing the children.

A Shropshire actor who starred in the hit comedy show, The Inbetweeners, will release his debut stand-up DVD next month.

Shropshire Council has failed to charge parish councils in the Oswestry area for a litter bin emptying service for more than two years.

The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital was today named on a list of hospitals which are failing to feed and look after elderly patients properly.

Full back Carl Regan is ready to re-launch his Shrewsbury Town career – with the help of a mini pre-season.

Ashley Chesters has become the first Shropshire golfer to break into the full England golf squad for 20 years.

Irish snooker ace Ken Doherty met his match on the green baize in Shropshire when he was beaten by a county player.

A £5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the recovery of a cherished speedboat stolen from a home near Whitchurch.

The extraordinary life of a Shropshire gun runner has been revealed in full – including his links to pop superstar Madonna.

A proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury should not be classified as a renewable energy scheme, a planning inquiry has heard.

This is how a £500,000 revamp of a major section of the Shropshire Union Canal could look.

Cannabis plants with an estimated street value of up to £17,000 have been seized by police from a house in a village near Shrewsbury.

Morecambe, Portsmouth, Rotherham, Colchester and Gillingham.

A former leader of Telford & Wrekin Council today claimed a decision to take out a 99-year lease on rented offices will cost taxpayers more than £50 million in rent alone.

If things had worked out differently Barrow winger Jack Mackreth could have been pulling on an AFC Telford shirt at Holker Street tomorrow.

The bill for major roadworks currently being carried out on the A49 in south Shropshire will be more than £1.25 million, it has been revealed.

Nearly £50,000 could be spent on improving play facilities at Oswestry’s showpiece public park after a councillor last year called it ‘the worst play area in a major town’.

Taxpayers will not have to pay £200 million over the next 23 years for Telford’s Hadley Learning Community, council chiefs this afternoon said.

Captain Roger Johnson today led a chorus of Wolves players in condemning the “disgraceful” treatment of Karl Henry at the Newcastle game.

Could Shropshire be selling one of the cheapest pints in the UK? Judges from the Good Pub Guide have carried out a survey which reveals a pint of bitter averages £2.87 in the North West, North East and Yorkshire and up to £3.15 in London and the South East.