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Take a look at all the action from Telford Tigers’ clash with Sheffield Steeldogs in the English Premier League. The match proved to be Andy McKinney’s last for the club.

I note the Countryside Alliance is trying to get the law against fox hunting reversed, reasoning that it is a difficult law to maintain as there have been few prosecutions.

Almost 300 Shropshire Council staff have been paid £50,000 or more in the last financial year, according to new figures revealed today.

A pumpkin grower who hit the headlines after he cheated during a village hall competition in Shropshire has returned this year – and won, it was reported.

Suzuki’s swiftest Swift proved a big hit with youngish owners looking for an affordable (to buy and insure) warm hatch.

The Wrekin Housing Trust has recently taken over the ownership and management of almost 120 extra Telford homes.

Fifty jobs are set to be created in a Mid Wales town when a care company opens a new office to provide home care for the elderly and vulnerable.

ITV confirmed over the weekend that it is to make a third series of Downton Abbey. Was there ever seriously going to be any doubt about it?

A £500,000 parish hall has opened in Telford after an official dedication by the Bishop of Shrewsbury.

Smallholders face an uncertain future as councils look to save cash, and in Staffordshire where rents have always been high the problem now is over security of tenure.

The Olympic torch will pass through 14 Shropshire towns and villages next year as it makes its way to London for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Games, it was revealed today.

Take a look at the post-match thoughts of Telford Tigers player-coach Tom Watkins and Sheffield Steeldogs boss Andre Payette after Sunday’s clash at the ice rink. Sheffield won 7-5 after a comeback from an early 3-0 deficit.

Shrewsbury Town today revealed it was “unlikely” they would appeal the sending off of loan debutant James Wallace.

AFC Telford United manager Andy Sinton says he has singled out targets for the January transfer window as he plots the Bucks’ escape from the threat of relegation.

A Whitchurch family was forced to flee their home after a rogue firework apparently smashed into the conservatory of the property sparking a blaze.

A 42-year-old man out walking his dog was punched in the face several times during a late-night attack in Telford.

Firefighters had a busy bonfire weekend tackling blazes across Shropshire – but officials said the number was ‘nothing out of the ordinary’ for the time of year.

Marquees, beds and tables belonging to a church youth camp have been destroyed after storage sheds in a Shropshire village were set on fire, causing £40,000 of damage.

Relieved Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today stressed the “brilliant” crowd that united Molineux was the key to returning to winning ways.

Drivers were caught up in huge tailbacks between Shrewsbury and Telford during rush hour today after a van overturned on the A5.

A Shrewsbury man who fathered a child with a 14-year-old girl he met on Facebook was today sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders’ institute.

Thousands of residents in Newport were left without water after a fault with an underground reservoir. Severn Trent officials say they believe up to 6,000 people could have been affected.

Shropshire is getting fatter and fatter and people need more operations on the NHS to cope, a leading consultant said today.

Plans for an £8 million hotel in Shrewsbury town centre, creating more than 40 jobs, have been given the go-ahead.

Shropshire was shivering today as temperatures dropped below zero.

For a while, the unthinkable seemed on the cards – that the Olympic torch would pass through Shropshire next summer without paying a visit to Much Wenlock, the spiritual home of the rebirth of the modern Olympics.

Council chiefs have been warned they could have ‘another Dale Farm fiasco’ on their hands near Oswestry if they do not resolve a planning row quickly.

Fifty jobs are being created in a Mid Wales town when a care company opens a new office to provide home care for elderly and vulnerable people.

Fire crews were called out to a house fire in Oswestry after fears there were people trapped inside.

Hundreds of sheep have been stolen by rustlers in Mid Wales over the last few weeks, police revealed today.