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.

A consultation process on plans to bring in an alcohol ban in a south Shropshire town will start imminently, councillors have been told.

Plans to build 30 homes on a south Shropshire coal and timber yard near railway sidings have moved a step closer.

Community spirit has won the day in a south Shropshire town after a group of volunteers teamed up to ensure Christmas celebrations would go ahead after all this year.

A scheme to confiscate alcohol from people causing disturbances in a south Shropshire town could be in place by Christmas, it was revealed today.

A Shropshire businessman has announced the closure of his firm’s haulage arm on Twitter.

A £100 reward has been offered for information about a “disgusting” attack in Shropshire on a cat which had wire wrapped round its neck and green paint sprayed in its face.

A cat limped home to its Shropshire owner after yobs spray painted its face green and wrapped wire around its neck and legs.

A Shropshire man suffered a serious head injury when he fell 25ft from scaffolding while working at his house.

A Shropshire trunk road will be closed this weekend as part of ongoing controversial maintenance works at a level crossing.

It is a quaint railway crossing near a village in the heart of the south Shropshire countryside which doesn’t look like it would cause much trouble.

Royal Mail today denied rumours there are plans to close a south Shropshire delivery office.

A motorcyclist has died and two more were injured in separate crashes in Shropshire. The man who was killed in the tragic collision has not been named.

Environmental campaigners are looking at ways of bringing back weekly food waste collections axed in three south Shropshire towns as part of cost-cutting measures.

A baby has been taken to hospital for precautionary checks after an accident between two cars on the A49 in Shropshire this morning.

AN ALCOHOL ban could be brought into force in a south Shropshire town by Christmas, it was revealed today.