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Villagers back shop fight

People living in a north Shropshire village have launched a bid to open their own community shop – after the previous one closed its doors. A group of villagers from Cheswardine have united in the task.

County-bred bull sells for £55,000

A pedigree bull born and bred in Shropshire has become the fourth best selling animal of its type in the world.

Let charity begin at home

I’m all for helping out developing countries, writes Nathan Rous. A close-up of a crying child with Tom Conti’s lilting narrative describing their inescapable plight provokes an involuntary stretch for both wallet and phone.

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Stop moaning, rural incomers told

Incomers who move into the countryside and complain about the noise of church bells and cricket matches have been told: Stop moaning about the sound of village life.

Harvest delivers bumber wheat crop

After a summer of misery there is finally some good news for Shropshire’s arable farmers – this year’s wheat harvest has been one of the best ever.

Burberry? Let’s just forget our ’summer’

The fashion pack see nothing but dewey-eyed romance in the interminable rain and the cloying mud of our “summer”, writes Rural Affairs Editor Nathan Rous.

Time to bin the turkey twizzlers

In the last 20 years our calendar has been bombarded with events from the bizarre to the ridiculous, writes Rural Affairs Editor Nathan Rous, among them take-your-dog-to-work day, national smile month and the slightly-dodgy-ticker week.

Bovine TB: Time to be bothered

How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Just the one, but that lightbulb has got to WANT to change, writes Rural Affair Editor Nathan Rous.

PO’s must move with the times

Anyone else had enough of e-mail? I say this because I’ve had two one-word e-mails this week. No ‘Hello Nathan, thanks for your message, blah blah blah’, writes Rural Affairs Editor Nathan Rous.