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An adventurous couple from Shropshire have decided to tie the knot in daredevil fashion by abseiling down a 55ft tower on their big day.

One of Shropshire’s most important businesses is car dealer Furrows, an integral part of the county with bases in Telford, Shrewsbury and Oswestry.

Shropshire’s biggest junior football club could fold in just two weeks unless more volunteers come forward, its chairman warned today.

The Midlands Air Ambulance spent £6.026 million from April 2010 to April 2011. It received £5.32 million from charities, £640,000 from trading and other smaller sums.

One of the world’s most recognisable aircraft – the Vulcan Bomber – roared above RAF Cosford as part of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in honour of national service veterans.

I wonder if your readers agree with me when I say that the public are treated as children by both national and local politicians.

More than 90 per cent of residents have backed plans for a multi-million pound Waitrose supermarket in Shrewsbury, new figures revealed today.

A 52-year-old man who made more than £1 million by importing heroin into a Shropshire industrial estate must pay back just £2,770, a court has ruled.

Car parking charges are to rise at Shropshire’s two main hospitals this year, the county’s top health boss has revealed.

Former Shrewsbury Town duo Nicky Wroe and Shane Cansdell-Sherriff have been backed to succeed at Preston North End by Deepdale chairman Peter Risdale.

Teenager Johnny McDonagh had an amazing escape after he fell 370ft down The Wrekin – and suffered only minor injuries.

AFC Telford United announced the signing of the pacy Luke Hubbins at their annual presentation evening last night.

Residents who have battled for nearly 20 years for a bypass around villages near Oswestry have been urged to have their say at a public meeting.

Parking permits could be introduced in Shrewsbury town centre in a move to cut down on drivers trying to avoid hefty fees by parking in side streets and outside other people’s homes.

Wolves striker Steven Fletcher is being eyed by more than 10 clubs across Europe, it has emerged.

The Olympic Flame today started its 8,000-mile journey across Britain as the countdown to the London 2012 Games began.

Britain’s Got Talent star Zoe Cooper will spearhead a massive river safety campaign to be launched in Shropshire next month, after figures showed Shrewsbury has one of the highest drowning rates in the UK.

One woman and two dogs were cut free from the wreck of a three-car smash on the A49 in south Shropshire.

Retired businessman Derek Leek is plane crazy – he has the 17 feet long cockpit of a B2 Canberra Bomber in his back garden.

More than a dozen people have objected to an application for a village store to sell alcohol for 16 hours a day, even before a brick has been laid at the new Spar store in Baschurch.

Hundreds of objections have flooded in from animal welfare campaigners across Britain opposing plans for six poultry units have been made – but they won’t affect the final decision.

Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard has dubbed the euro a ‘political project that has gone horribly wrong’ and warned the single currency is bound to fail.

A headteacher who humiliated and manhandled children as young as four has been banned from teaching for a year for unacceptable professional conduct.

A professional thief spotted on Crimewatch stealing £4,500 worth of jewellery from a shop in Bridgnorth has been jailed for 32 months,

With unemployment at its highest rate since 1996, the government’s response to the problem is a scandal.

Millions of men all over the world share a common problem – they suffer from tough stubble that defies the attention of every shaving product known to man, and blunts the edge of even the keenest razor.

A peace campaigner from Shrewsbury who vowed to go to jail rather than fill in her census form will not be prosecuted after the case against her was dismissed – for a second time.

A mjor rescue operation was under way at the top of The Wrekin this afternoon when a 13-year-old boy was trapped after falling up to 20ft.

Twelve people have been arrested in a series of raids across Shropshire and the West Midlands by detectives investigating a £500,000 drugs gang.

No doubt David Cameron will see the £3.7 billion owed by absent parents in child maintenance as evidence of a broken society, but it is also evidence of a broken bureaucracy.