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Designers at Shropshire’s Harper Adams University College have dreamed up their vision of a futuristic tractor with dozens of innovative features.

Late-night Christmas shoppers will be able to park for free in Shrewsbury as part of a scheme to boost trade in the town centre during the festive run-up.

Blog: There is a little chink of light in the affair of the Shrewsbury Toy Run, a wonderful example of Big Society do-gooding in action, which has had to be axed, organisers say, because police cannot afford to marshal the event.

A number of shows on Radio Shropshire could be axed as part of the BBC’s plans to cut 20 per cent from its budget over the next five years.

Thousands of Shropshire Council workers are to be balloted over whether to accept a new deal which would see a proposed pay cut reduced to 1.9 per cent next year.

Vandals threw paint over Shrewsbury’s controversial Quantum Leap today, sparking a clean-up.

A Mid Wales headteacher has been suspended for the second time this year. Powys County Council said it suspended Suzanne Foster, from Ysgol Maesydre, Welshpool.

One of Shropshire’s best- known restaurants has been stripped of its prized Michelin star, while another nearby in Powys has scooped one for the first time.

Crushed cars, bodies strewn across the road and victims screaming for help – this was the daunting task facing emergency services at a multiple car crash in Telford last night.

Long before the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese holiday apartment in 2007 rocked the world and its media, Sheffield-born baby Ben Needham disappeared from the Greek island of Kos.

Boss Graham Turner has fired a warning to his Shrewsbury squad over tomorrow’s unpredictable visitors Barnet as Town attempt to re-discover the winning thread in League Two.

Manager Andy Sinton today signalled his commitment to AFC Telford United – by penning a new contract that will keep him at the club until 2014.

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

The great and good of Shrewsbury Town’s past were out in force as the club inducted the inaugural 10 legends into their Hall of Fame.

Blog: One of the most contentious issues of our lifetimes is going to be global warming, writes Motoring Editor Sharon Walters.

Life can often be a juggling act, and when there are balls to be dropped your beauty routine is an obvious casualty.

A pensioner has been arrested on suspicion of causing unnecessary suffering to wildlife after 27 birds of prey were seized from a house in Shrewsbury.

Businesses today criticised new delays in a major project to replace a road bridge on the A49 near Whitchurch, claiming they are losing money.

Alabama-born rising stars The Pierces stop off at Birmingham’s Glee Club next week as part of their UK tour.

Blog: Steve Jobs is responsible for making the letter ‘i’ cool, trendy and revolutionary. His technical background, designer’s eye and forward thinking revolutionised the computer and music industry.

Dynamic duo Neil Bentley and Carlie Swain with another round-up of the best bits of this week’s radio shows.

The world’s top rocketbelt pilot has been giving lessons on how to fly using the contraption.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures

Letter: It was with heavy heart that I read that there will be no Toy Run this year due to police cuts.

Bought from the Earl of Bradford’s Estate over thirty years ago, Ryelands is an attractive country house with beautiful established gardens and grounds with a wildlife pool and grazing land.

More parking could be provided to cater for the thousands of extra tourists expected to flock to Much Wenlock in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Two teenagers who kicked and punched a man in a drunken street attack, leaving him lying unconscious, have been spared a custodial sentence.

A crunch meeting next week will decide whether millions of pounds of European funding should be pumped into a proposed tourist attraction on the Shropshire border.

These photos taken from the Wrekin’s summit show the extent of progress being made at the opencast mine in Little Wenlock.

A proposed £60 million incinerator on the edge of Shrewsbury would be ‘inefficient’ and would have an ‘unacceptable’ impact on climate change, a campaigner has told a planning inquiry.