Controversial plans to build a £5 million biomass plant in Bishop’s Castle have been scrapped, it was revealed today.

County waste contractor Veolia has performed a U-turn over plans to remove plastic bottle recycling banks from across Shropshire, it was revealed today.

A woman in Shropshire thought she was acting the good samaritan after stopping to help a pensioner start her car in Bishop’s Castle — but ended up in hospital after being hit by the car as it moved away.

The leader of Shropshire Council has vowed to meet with civic leaders and residents in Bishop’s Castle over the proposed sale of land for a £5 million biomass plant.

Campaigners today called for the sale of the site of the proposed £5 million biomass plant in Bishop’s Castle to be reopened to other buyers if developers cannot agree a deal with council chiefs soon.

New air quality testing equipment has been installed in Bishops’s Castle to monitor emissions from the town’s controversial £5 million biomass plant, it has been revealed.

The mother of a young Shropshire girl who was airlifted to hospital after running behind a reversing car in her street has relived the moment she saw her daughter lying in the road.

Letter: I met our Ludlow Member of Parliament Mr Dunne at the House of Commons last week during a Christian Aid and Cafod lobby.

Four new homes planned to kickstart a multi-million eco-village in south Shropshire would be “domineering” and “obtrusive” on neighbouring properties, councillors claimed.

A long-awaited £4.5 million eco-homes development in Bishop’s Castle is expected to be finished within the next year, it has been revealed.

Huge swathes of south west Shropshire could miss out on super-fast broadband - even if Shropshire Council secures £17 million of Government cash to improve coverage in rural areas

A motor mechanic returned from work to find his wife lying face down in their south Shropshire garden, crushed under a fallen wall, an inquest heard.

A doctor who has stayed away from a Shropshire medical practice for four months due to a dispute with staff has not returned to work today.

Petitions with more than 900 signatures calling for the reinstatement of a Shropshire doctor will be handed to county health chiefs tomorrow.

The Shropshire town of Bishop’s Castle has been named as one of the top 10 market towns in Britain by the BBC’s Countryfile Magazine.

Work has restarted at a south Shropshire eco-village that was mothballed three years ago when its previous developer went into receivership.

New £1.3 million facilities at a south Shropshire hospital have been officially unveiled.

Police officers have defended their coverage of a rural area of Shropshire amid mounting criticism from councillors.

PETITIONS HAVE been circulated around a Shropshire town calling for the reinstatement of a doctor who has not worked at a local surgery for three months.

Music fans will gather in a Bishop’s Castle pub next month for a tribute concert in honour of Small Faces and The Faces star Ronnie Lane, to mark what would have been his 65th birthday.

Bishop’s Castle Town Council has agreed to take on the running of the town’s public toilets from Shropshire Council.

More than three quarters of Shropshire’s secondary schools have introduced a ban on “extreme” haircuts to control the soaring trend for 21st century crops, it was revealed today.

In the latest installment of our ‘moving to’ series, we look at living in Bishop’s Castle, a small but thriving Shropshire market town just over a mile away from the English-Welsh border.

South Shropshire residents are pushing for monitoring equipment to be installed on the site of a propose £5 million biomass burner.

Members of one of Shropshire’s oldest bowls clubs have hit out at Shropshire Council – after being charged business rates for the first time history.

Councillors in Bishop’s Castle have called on Shropshire Council to accept liability for any compensation claims from gardeners tending allotments next to a planned £5 million biomass plant.

A Shropshire woman has hit out at Facebook after the social networking site removed a picture of her sister breastfeeding.

Bishop’s Castle residents are being urged to fight to save their bus services after claims some could be axed to save more than £700,000 in transport costs.

Shropshire’s Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite was laid to rest in his home county at the weekend, in a small and private family ceremony.

Attempts to set up a Pubwatch scheme in a south Shropshire town have fallen flat – because only staff from two premises turned up for the launch meeting.