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Shropshire Council leader Keith Barrow today defended the authority’s record on job losses in the wake of ‘huge spending cuts by the Government’, after it was revealed hundreds of posts have been cut this year.

Councillors have made fresh calls to prevent traffic using a shortcut in Whitchurch town centre amid fears it is only a matter of time before someone is hurt or killed.

One of Shropshire’s best known restaurants is planning to expand, just months after losing a coveted Michelin star.

Farmers across Shropshire are turning to alarms, tracking devices and other security systems in a bid to beat the rising tide of rural crime.

A new online e-petition calling for Shropshire Council to reinstate weekly bin collections has been launched – with residents claiming extra cardboard is to blame for the request.

CCTV footage could help track down raiders who stole cash and alcohol during a break-in at The Venue leisure complex near Oswestry, it has been claimed.

The Severn Valley Railway has reported one of its best results this century for its annual Santa Special trains with all 30,369 seats selling out.

Oswestry’s market traders are opening up for an extra day tomorrow to encourage Christmas shoppers to support local businesses.

Theatre Severn has announced record takings at the box office for its latest pantomime Aladdin – and theatres in Telford and Wolverhampton are reporting similar success stories with their festive offerings.

See all of the pictures from Wolves’ 2-2 draw with Norwich at Molineux last night.

Last week the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) predicted that there will be many schools without head teachers in the next five years, writes education blogger Kit Field.

Who needs the elaborate presents given at Christmas today? All the bright lights to see houses lit up?

The sleuthing is far from elementary in Guy Ritchie's action-packed sequel to his 2009 reinvention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective.

The singing, helium-voiced chipmunks are all at sea in Mike Mitchell's zany sequel and so too is the script for this third instalment in the inoffensive series.

A 22-year-old man who punched a 12-week-old puppy in a Telford street has been handed a suspended prison sentence and banned from keeping animals for two years.

A 20-year-old man needed hospital treatment after a glass was smashed in his face in an unprovoked attack at a pub in Shrewsbury, police said this afternoon.

Stephen Hunt has urged Wolves to start showing consistency by kicking off an unbeaten run to buck the trend of “must-win” games.

More than 50 temporary employees at the Royal Mail sorting office in Shrewsbury in the run-up to Christmas were not paid for a week’s work, it was claimed this afternoon.

Prime Minister David Cameron is keen to emphasise at every opportunity that we are all in it together. Some people, however, are clearly far more in it than others.

Former battery hens are being kitted out in woolly jumpers by a rescue centre to stop them shivering in the cold.

Here's how to DIY your way to feeling warmer.

If the deep red leaves of the poinsettia you bought for Christmas are already drooping or the fragrant hyacinths you hoped would last beyond Boxing Day have fallen over, you may think that you simply don't have the magic touch with houseplants.

Recalled winger Jon Taylor today revealed his total commitment to Shrewsbury Town and insisted he had no regrets over snubbing a summer switch to Scotland.

Four fraudsters made up fake car crashes in Shropshire to net £37,000 from insurance firms.

Five people have been arrested in a major blitz on suspected metal thieves operating through dealers across Shropshire and the West Midlands.#

More than 500 employees have left Shropshire Council in the past 12 months, new figures have revealed.

Boss Andy Sinton has pledged to play the Scrooge of AFC Telford United – by upping his players’ Christmas workload.

This is the striking image which has crowned Newport’s Mark Sisson as the outdoor photographer of the year.

Wolves’ Boxing Day clash at Arsenal was today under threat because of a proposed Tube drivers’ strike.

A woman was attacked by a man who tried to sexually assault her in an alleyway.