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Midfielder Nicky Wroe is relishing his role as Shrewsbury Town’s penalty king – but wants to weigh in with more goals from open play.

Plans for a new Sainsbury’s supermarket creating about 250 jobs in Whitchurch have cleared their final hurdle after the retail giant pledged nearly £500,000 to benefit the town.

Five county leisure centres were subsidised with more than £1.5 million by Shropshire Council in the last financial year, a new report has revealed.

Defender Stuart Whitehead could be set to sit out AFC Telford United’s FA Trophy clash at Nuneaton on Sunday – with his wife Amy due to give birth to their second child today.

Strong winds are expected to sweep across parts of Shropshire and Mid Wales over the next few days with potential for heavy rain and flooding.

A rare wartime letter signed by Sir Winston Churchill sold for more than triple its asking price in front of a packed Shrewsbury auction house.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today urged fans not to focus solely on the forthcoming two home games – because they’re planning to pile on the misery for Manchester United first.

The spectre of Conservative Party infighting over Europe returned today as David Cameron made final preparations for a crucial summit in Brussels aimed at sorting out the mounting debt crisis.

Cuts of £5 million are planned to the West Mercia police budget for next year.

It’s survived one civil war, two world wars and hundreds of years of history, but a simple bath almost destroyed one of Ludlow’s most valuable assets.

A new Tesco Express food store will be the centrepiece of the first phase of the regeneration in Hadley – and be the supermarket giant’s fifth Telford store.

Shropshire Council’s pioneering new arrangement for maintaining the county’s roads by using a new contractor will save taxpayers £600,000 every year, it was claimed today.

Parish councillors in Dawley have agreed to stump up more than £3,000 to ensure the town’s library does not have its hours slashed.

Bridgnorth Rugby Club officials today vowed to ‘beg, borrow and steal’ to make sure one of its busiest weekends went ahead despite being hit by arsonists.

Plans for a £250,000 bowling clubhouse in Craven Arms have been submitted to Shropshire Council planning chiefs. Craven Arms Bowling Club members want to flatten their current clubhouse.

Bill Goodwin, an outspoken campaigner for pensioners’ rights, has died. Mr Goodwin, of Newport, died on Saturday, aged 89, after six weeks at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.

Work on Newtown’s long-awaited bypass will start by 2014, officials revealed.

The latest addition to a growing sculpture display in Ellesmere has been officially unveiled.

More than 200 people are expected to form a human chain at a closure-threatened Shrewsbury town centre medical practice on Saturday.

Watch the highlights of AFC Telford’s goalless draw with York City on Tuesday night at the New Bucks Head.

Franky Zapata uses a flyboard to zoom in and out of the water and leap through the air.

An investment fund linked to Oxford University is behind plans for 11 homes at developments located in the north Shropshire countryside.

In the news a teacher was complaining about having to work until she was 68.

Ben Hughes, who has been given just six months to live, introduces his new blog – Ben’s bucket list – where he talks about his condition, the importance of organ donation and how he hopes to spend the time he has left.

Care home boss Mandy Thorn speaks out on the problems families face when finding a home for their elderly relatives. “I don’t want to paint a picture of crisis, because things are not quite that bad. But we are in a position where we really need to start looking at this area now.”

Caesarean section birth rates in Shropshire were the lowest in England over the past 12 months, a new NHS report revealed today.

Shropshire MPs this afternoon piled the pressure on David Cameron as the Prime Minister came under renewed pressure on the eve of a crunch EU summit meeting.

A 68-year-old woman died from an overdose of paracetamol three weeks after being admitted to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with a fractured hip, a coroner ruled this afternoon.

Thousands of pounds worth of copper cabling has been stolen from a Telford industrial estate.

Shropshire student Sam Egerton follows in the footsteps of some rugby legends tomorrow when he runs out at Twickenham to represent Oxford in the famous Varsity match with Cambridge.