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An award-winning farm shop in Telford today announced £600,000 expansion plans, creating at least 10 new jobs.

Blog: Rubbish in the bin or trash in the cart? Either way it appears Shropshire has it tough, writes county expat Mark Ellis from his home in Arizona.

“We have played all over the Midlands area and we seem to be getting a bit of a following,” says Gavin Herbert, vocalist with Telford rock band Guns for Girls. “It’s getting a bit busier at gigs.”

Podcasters Stuart Dunn and James Garrison assess the fortunes of Shrewsbury Town FC and AFC Telford United and look ahead to what the weekend will bring.

More than 1,000 sex offenders and dangerous criminals are living in Shropshire and West Mercia, it was revealed today.

Written and drawn by Belgian artist Georges Remi under the pen name Herge, Tintin first sprang to life on the page in 1929 in the gung-ho adventure, Tintin In The Land Of The Soviets.

Away from the glitz of the red carpet, George Clooney has exploited his celebrity to prick consciences.

Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett, The Help explores the touching relationship between two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

False and mistaken identities abound in the plays of Shakespeare.

Police in Shropshire and Mid Wales have never cautioned, proceeded against or fined anybody under controversial fox hunting legislation since it came in, rural campaigners claimed today.

The RSPCA today said it was ‘extremely worried’ after receiving calls about suspicious cat deaths in Telford and Shrewsbury.

Major access work at Shrewsbury’s bus station is due to finish within three weeks, officials said today.

Costumes worn by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Oscar-laden movie Titanic will feature in a Shropshire exhibition opening today.

Part of a major Telford road will be closed next month while resurfacing work takes place.

An £18.5 million school will be built in Dawley after proposals were rubber-stamped at a meeting.

Shropshire’s two main hospitals have higher than expected death rates, according to new figures released by the Department of Health today.

Blog: The proposal to provide employers with the freedom to terminate their relationship with underperforming employees will be gratefully received by local businesses.

Gangs of eastern Europeans are stealing chewing gum from big Shropshire supermarkets to use back home as currency, police said today.

Blog: Keeping the people of Telford and Wrekin area safe is the main aim of the West Mercia Police Response Teams working in the Borough, writes Response Inspector Paul Franks who is based at Malinsgate Police Station.

Pictures from the Shropshire hockey scene.

If you are quite content to cut a couple of holes in a white towel and run around "whooing" this Halloween, that is, of course, all right.

Jez Moxey has broken the boardroom silence on Molineux’s anti-Mick McCarthy lobby to issue a “business as usual” edict.

Plans for Shropshire Grand National hope Neptune Collonges to make his seasonal return this weekend have been shelved.

Former AFC Telford United defender Gavin Cowan is hoping the “best week of my life” doesn’t cost him the chance of causing an FA Cup shock at his old club on Saturday.

A district nurse living near Ludlow is accused of taking £100,000 from a patient in her 80s.

People living in isolated rural communities cannot be reached by ambulances for at least 30 minutes after 999 calls are made, a councillor has claimed.

A man has died and another suffered head injuries after a head-on smash between two vans near the Shropshire border.

A 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Shrewsbury’s Quarry park, police said today.

Two men have denied the manslaughter of a Shropshire pensioner who died in hospital a month after suffering injuries during a break-in at his home.

BBC Radio Shropshire is pulling in 9,000 more listeners than a year ago, according to new figures.