Firefighters across Shropshire were called to deal with a number of grass fires as the spring heatwave continued.The latest incident happened at Hints, Clee Hill, shortly before 9.45pm yesterday.

A skip hire firm based on Shropshire’s Titterstone Clee Hill has seen its fine for illegally storing waste slashed.

It could have been an anti climax. It could have been a mobile apathy zone. It could have rained.

The sun shone on Shropshire as Olympic fever brought thousands onto the streets for the torch relay.

The Olympic torch was paraded through Shropshire amid jubilant scenes on an historic day for the county.

Thousands of people were flooding onto the streets of Shropshire this afternoon as the Olympic torch made its first visit to the county.

The Olympic Torch arrives in Shropshire for the first time tomorrow, when it spends nearly two hours in the south east of the county.

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

A bomb disposal expert from Shropshire was seriously injured after being hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, it emerged today.

It was made famous in AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, where ‘from Clee to heaven a beacon burns and the shires have seen it plain’.

Tributes were today paid to a 32-year-old man from Shropshire who died in a fall as he climbed the UK’s highest mountain.

A skip hire company has been fined £20,000 for illegally storing waste on the Clee Hill for more than six months, the Environment Agency said today.

About 100 people will be asked to carry the Olympic Torch when it makes its way through Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin at the end of May.

A subpostmaster at a village post office has had his contract terminated by Royal Mail bosses – throwing the future of the service in south Shropshire into doubt.

An interim postmaster was today installed at a village post office counter which closed suddenly three weeks ago. Post Office officials today confirmed the counter at Clee Hill Stores has reopened.

People will fall silent across Shropshire and Mid Wales at a number of ceremonies and events to mark Remembrance Sunday this weekend.

For a while, the unthinkable seemed on the cards – that the Olympic torch would pass through Shropshire next summer without paying a visit to Much Wenlock, the spiritual home of the rebirth of the modern Olympics.

A paraglider pilot has been airlifted to hospital after crashing into a rock face at a Shropshire beauty spot, sparking a major rescue operation.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures.

Landowners have said they may lock up access routes to beauty spots across Clee Hill at night in a drastic bid to combat escalating fly-tipping in the area.

Firefighters spent almost five hours tackling a grass fire at a Shropshire beauty spot. The fire engulfed four-and-a-half hectares on Catherton Common, Clee Hill, at about 2.20pm yesterday.