A workman was airlifted to hospital with a fractured jaw after falling about 20ft through a ceiling at a former factory in Bridgnorth.

Fuel prices reached record highs in Shropshire today as panic-buying pushed diesel to more than £1.50 a litre.

Shropshire racehorse trainer Mark Wellings has sent out his final runner. Wellings, who is based in Bridgnorth, has left the training ranks to concentrate on a new business.

Almost 70 vintage tractors snaked their way around Bridgnorth in a bid to drum up much-needed funds for charity.

A botched murder probe that led to five men being acquitted of a gangland killing on the Shropshire border cost police almost £500,000, it was revealed today.

A businessman from Bridgnorth said he was ‘shocked’ when a gas meter reading showed he could owe more than £33,000.

Work is under way at Bridgnorth’s historic cliff railway to spruce up the carriages for the first time in about 15 years.

Firefighters took 90 minutes to cut an elderly man free from his car after a two-vehicle crash on a main road on the outskirts of Bridgnorth.

A man had to be cut free from a car after a crash on the outskirts of Bridgnorth this afternoon.

Torchbearers from across Shropshire and Mid Wales today expressed their delight at being invited to carry the Olympic Flame.

A 29-year-old man was today fighting for his life in hospital after a crash near Bridgnorth. The Volvo left the road before crashing at Shipley, police said today.

Katey Wall admitted she thought she was going to die as she lay on the ground on a dark and secluded path while Matthew Atkins rained blow after blow on to her head.

A man who brutally attacked a nursery nurse as she walked home from a night out in Shropshire was today starting a nine-year jail sentence.

Three cars drove through a fence to avoid facing a fine after being locked in a car park in Bridgnorth. The cars were parked at Severn Park and the owners failed to return when the gates were locked at 5.30pm.

Services are being expanded at Bridgnorth Hospital so residents do not have to travel so far for treatment. Health bosses are looking at introducing a range of services over the coming months.

Scores of Shropshire football clubs are poised to win promotion this summer – without kicking a ball.

Bridgnorth’s 150-year-old rail station will get a £2 million revamp under new plans. The Severn Valley Railway announced ambitious plans to expand the town’s station to cope with soaring visitor numbers.

Homes come in all shapes and sizes, from squat bungalows to disused windmills, but you don’t see many people living in abandoned water towers.

It’s the greatest dog show on Earth. And across Shropshire and Mid Wales hundreds of pooches are being prepped and preened.

Fuel prices in Shropshire have hit a new record high – with some pumps charging 150.9p a litre, it emerged today. The AA said today the price is breaking records.

Spectators were forced to leave the sidelines for the final minutes of Bridgnorth Hockey Club’s promotion-clinching victory after a complaint from the opposition captain.

Posties in the Telford area were the best in the UK for ensuring first-class post was delivered the next day, new figures have revealed.

Shrewsbury has some of the slowest broadband in the country, it was revealed today.

A former councillor from Shropshire who served on parish and town councils for more than 35 years has died at the age of 84.

Five daring volunteers from Shropshire have bared all for a new health campaign to encourage people to check for signs of serious diseases.

Three members of Bridgnorth Town Council should be forced to pay the £118,000 it cost to represent them in a sexual discrimination case, it has been claimed.

Two men and a woman were arrested after an eagle-eyed van driver spotted suspected burglars fleeing the scene of a house break-in near Bridgnorth, police today said.

A 33-year-old man who drove a sports car at up to 95mph during a 10-mile police chase through Shropshire has been jailed.

Two people have escaped serious injury after their car left the road and plunged 15ft down an embankment near Bridgnorth.

A warrant was issued today for the arrest of a former Shropshire director of a demolition firm who was due to be sentenced for running a cannabis farm at an Edwardian mansion house.