The Olympic Flame today started its 8,000-mile journey across Britain as the countdown to the London 2012 Games began.
Torchbearers from across Shropshire and Mid Wales today expressed their delight at being invited to carry the Olympic Flame.
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 man had to be cut free from a car following a crash in Telford. The incident happened at the junction between Long Lane and Bratton Road, Bratton, at around 7.30pm yesterday.
A 76-year-old lorry driver is celebrating an incredible landmark after clocking up 50 years of service with the same Shropshire company.
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.
The body of a man has been found in a Shropshire river, police said today.
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