Trustees of Craven Arms Community Centre today warned there was a “long way to go” before the venue could make ends meet.

Alex Walters, from Diddlebury near Craven Arms, tells how he witnessed the riots in the London borough of Hackney first hand.

Almost 50 speeding tickets have been handed out in the past three months to motorists driving through the Corvedale after police launched regular spot checks.

Taxpayers in Craven Arms could face a rise of more than 40 per cent in their annual precept payment to help run public toilets and maintain new play facilities.

A former school teacher from Shropshire has been jailed after stealing nearly £8,000 from a 94-year-old woman.

A stunning 1930s steam train chugged through south Shropshire for the first time this weekend on a nostalgic rail journey.

Signs put up directing drivers to a south Shropshire market have mysteriously gone missing.

When David Parry-Jones decided to find out more about the history and heritage of south Shropshire he decided his two-year-old cocker spaniel Sally would be the ideal companion.

Letter: I am a senior citizen and for the last few years have received a winter fuel allowance of £250. As the cost of all types of fuel is expensive and prices go up every year I have found this benefit very useful.

Two women had to be cut free from their car after a crash on the A49 between Craven Arms and Stokesay Castle today.

A south Shropshire pub which has been closed for about five months has been snapped up by new buyers.

A shuttle bus which helps people get to remote parts of south Shropshire has been axed due to funding cuts.

Letter: Reference the 435 bus service. I understand that the county council is considering changing this service from hourly to two-hourly.

Owners of petrol stations across the county are being hit in the pocket by Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to enforce a 1p drop in fuel duty, it has been claimed.

A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a £10,000 caravan from a south Shropshire compound.

A Shropshire councillor has refuted Shirehall’s case for closing small schools – describing proposed savings as “speculative”.

Taxi drivers have hit out at council chiefs after discovering a key meeting to discuss hikes in licence rates in Shropshire will take place on the same day as Ludlow races.

Four people have been banned from pubs across rural parts of south Shropshire after a fight broke out in a bar on New Year’s Eve.

A Shropshire woman has set up a petition calling for lower speed limits and extra police patrols on a road she claims bikers from the West Midlands use as a race track.

RESIDENTS ARE being forced to take their lives in their hands with traffic travelling at speeds of between 80mph and 120mph on a “lethal” south Shropshire road, it has been claimed.

New measures allowing police to confiscate booze from people causing a nuisance in a south Shropshire town plagued by anti-social behaviour have been delayed a further three months.

Bowls players hoping to build a new £250,000 club house in a Shropshire town are turning to a county-wide fund in the hope of providing a facility which could benefit other groups.

A group of young men attacked a van on a Shropshire road while the driver sat inside, police said today.

A woman was seriously injured and her two children and husband were hurt when their car left an icy Shropshire road and ended on its side down an embankment.

A woman and a teenager were injured during a brawl involving up to 10 people at a south Shropshire pub.

South Shropshire town councillors say it is vital that public toilets remain open, following an announcement by Shropshire Council that it will close most of the facilities it runs by April 2011 in a cost-cutting drive to save £230,000.

One man was taken to hospital after a house fire in south Shropshire.

A Shropshire mother fears her 20-year-old son – who is bedridden with the chronic illness ME and has to be spoon fed – could die after health chiefs refused to send him for treatment at a specialist unit.

A south Shropshire community centre facing a funding shortfall of £15,000 is holding discussions with Shropshire Council over getting a loan to help it stay open.

Most schools in Shropshire are back to normal after the recent snowfall.