It’s definitely old and it is a novel idea – to borrow a historic Shropshire house for a bride and groom’s big day.

Thieves stole floodlights from outside a church while parishioners were taking part in a Christmas service inside.

Eight new cardboard recycling banks are to be set up around Shropshire following the end of kerbside recycling collections, it has been announced.

Rating **** Sharon Walters is happy with readers’ recommendation as she visits The Exchange Brasserie in Cleobury Mortimer.

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.

Intruders fled with cash after causing extensive damage in a supermarket raid in Cleobury Mortimer. The burglars forced open internal doors at the Harry Tuffins store.

Families, teachers and pupils of a school on the south Shropshire border have turned 1,500 used plastic bottles into an environmentally-friendly greenhouse.

A Shropshire pensioner has written his first book at the age of 80 – a children’s adventure story inspired by his childhood conversations with Ironbridge coracle man Harry Rogers.

Struggling Shrewsbury hit rock bottom in Midlands Two West (North) – after a 68-10 drubbing at Old Saltleians.

A £170,000 land sale deal to pave the way for a new £1 million medical practice in Cleobury Mortimer has been agreed.

More than 250 residents in Cleobury Mortimer have given their unanimous support to a plan to build a £1 million medical practice on the town’s former Muller England factory site.

Up to 200 residents are expected to pack into a crunch meeting tonight to discuss Cleobury Mortimer’s long-awaited new £1 million medical practice.

A £1,000 reward was this afternoon offered after thieves stole two litters of spaniel puppies from kennels in south Shropshire – just days before they were due to be sent to their new homes.

Cleobury Mortimer looks set to get its first CCTV system with Shropshire Council chiefs hoping to put up three cameras to tackle crime in the town centre.

The people of Cleobury Mortimer could seal the fate of the town’s planned £1 million doctor’s surgery under radical plans for a public vote.

Two motorcyclists have died in separate crashes on south Shropshire roads.

Shropshire has been hit by three water leaks across the county as the threat of hosepipe bans looms large due to the dry weather.

Young Shropshire golf star Emily Price has booked her place in the US Kids Golf World Championship in August.

A sledgehammer blow was today delivered to a number of schools across Shropshire after the latest proposals to overhaul the county’s education system were released.

More than half of residents in a south Shropshire town have joined an online neighbourhood watch group.

Parish councillors in a south Shropshire town are still awaiting offers from developers to build a long awaited £1 million medical practice. Shropshire County Primary Care Trust agreed to fund the project last week.

A SUPER-FEDERATION of six south Shropshire schools could be set up in a bid to save an under-threat village primary from the axe.

Bosses at two breweries which serve pubs in rural areas have hit out at Chancellor George Osborne over a rise in the duty placed on a pint of beer.

Almost 800 residents in Cleobury Mortimer have signed a petition calling for parish councillors to free up land for a £1 million medical practice.

Two drain covers a day have been taken from the streets of a south Shropshire town and surrounding villages over the past week, it has emerged.

Staff and governors at a Shropshire school have been fighting a “lost battle” to stop a slide in pupil numbers, its headteacher claimed.

Shropshire’s schools are losing £15 million over 10 years in Government funding because of falling pupil numbers, a top Shirehall official has claimed.

A Shropshire town has swept away competition from across the UK to be named the tidiest in Britain.

Real ale drinking is increasingly fashionable, yet the local is struggling to survive. So what’s going wrong? Business Editor Thom Kennedy reports.

Parents and teachers today vowed “The battle starts here” as consultation got under way on plans to axe nine Shropshire schools.