Shropshire’s former top soldier has taken on a new challenge, at the helm of the Shropshire and West Midlands Agricultural Society.

A top military chief today reiterated there was no plans to close Copthorne Barracks – despite waving farewell to 130 military and civilian staff who worked there.

More than 130 military and civilian jobs will be lost at Shrewsbury’s Copthorne Barracks on Monday.

A former film critic, who now lives in Shrewsbury, is celebrating the publication of his fifth book.

A psychiatric nursing assistant from Shrewsbury today denied sexually assaulting two female patients while working in a hospital.

More than 60 civilian jobs will be lost with the closure of part of Copthorne Barracks in Shrewsbury, a Government minister has confirmed.

Thousands of Ministry of Defence workers in Shropshire are to join a national walkout this month in protest at public sector pension changes, a union leader said today.

More than 130 jobs will be lost when the Ministry of Defence closes its divisional Army headquarters at Copthorne Barracks in Shrewsbury in April 2012, it was confirmed today.

A proposed 15m high mobile phone mast that could be put up close to a school in Shrewsbury is not needed in the town, a campaigner has claimed.

Job losses look likely at Copthorne Barracks following the Government’s defence review, a council chief has claimed.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski is to hold talks with council officials about the future of the town’s barracks amid fears for the future of 130 jobs at the military site.