Children across Shropshire will lose their homework clubs at the end of March if money cannot be found to keep them open, it emerged today.

Hundreds attended an extravaganza in Shrewsbury and raised almost £3,000 for charity in an event organised by a terminally ill 28-year-old man.

The number of people visiting Shrewsbury’s main shopping centre was almost 20 per cent up on the final Saturday before Christmas compared with the same day last year, bosses revealed this afternoon.

Appeals have been made to stop the demolition of Wem’s historic signal box as part of plans to monitor the rail line remotely from Cardiff next year.

A father-of-four today said his son had been left devastated after a BBC slip up led to a musician in a Womble suit removing its head during a live broadcast.

A former medical secretary from Shrewsbury is facing a possible jail term after being spotted by a private investigator walking around shops despite claiming that she needed a wheelchair in a £40,000 compensation claim, the High Court has heard.

Three traditional manually-operated signal boxes on a Shropshire railway line are due to close next year under a multi-million pound modernisation plan by Network Rail.

A 28-year-old man who has been given six months to live has drawn up a ‘Bucket List’ of dreams he wants to fulfil in the time he has left.

A pair of lifelong friends from Shrewsbury and a chef from Bishop’s Castle are to get their 15 minutes of fame when they appear on television next week.

The newly appointed High Sheriff of Shropshire has been honoured for clocking up 50 years of service as a scout leader.

Rating *** Russell Roberts says cheers to Chinese food at a typical estate boozer.

A Shrewsbury primary school has been placed in special measures following a damning report from Ofsted. Inspectors said Harlescott Junior School provided ‘inadequate education’.

Controversial plans to extend the size of Shrewsbury’s Tesco Extra store could hurt independent businesses in nearby towns and villages, the Campaign to Protect Rural England has warned.

A second mass grave and a medieval brick kiln could be lying underneath the Battle of Shrewsbury site, an archaeologist has claimed.

Two up-and-coming stars of the airwaves have completed a 24-hour broadcasting marathon from a flat in Shrewsbury.

The historic site of the Battle of Shrewsbury would suffer ‘substantial harm’ as a result of the creation of a giant incinerator 200 metres away from it, a planning inquiry has been told.

A Shrewsbury community centre which former town mayor Eileen Sandford MBE helped to get built is to be renamed in her honour.

A public consultation has been launched on plans to build more than 100 homes on the site of a former Tesco store in Shrewsbury.

A 40-year-old Shropshire man bludgeoned a Shrewsbury man to death at the victim’s home just hours after the two men had met for the first time at a late night shop, a court has heard.

A 40-year-old Shropshire man has been given an indeterminate jail sentence after attacking and killing a Shrewsbury man whose body was found at a flat in the town.

A 40-YEAR-OLD man has admitted attacking and killing a Shrewsbury man whose body was found at a flat in the town.

Town councillors in Shrewsbury will be asked to approve up to £5,000 tonight to fight plans to build an incinerator.

Bosses at bank branches in Shrewsbury under threat due to plans by Tesco to extend its Extra store in the town today said they had not been told about the scheme.

Campaigners fighting plans to build a £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury today said they had been boosted by news that Veolia had lost an appeal for another burner in the UK.

A judge ruled today that a 58-year-old Shropshire man, charged with murdering three men in the county almost 17 years ago, was not fit to plead at his trial.

A legal eagle or an expert planner will be hired to fight an appeal by waste firm Veolia over its controversial proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury.

Detectives today said they were satisfied with a nine-year jail term handed to a 26-year-old man for killing a Shrewsbury man found with multiple stab wounds at a town flat.

A 26-year-old man was jailed today for nine years after admitting killing a Shrewsbury man found with multiple stab wounds at a flat in the town.

A 40-year-old man today appeared in court charged with the murder of a man whose body was found in a Shrewsbury flat.

A public inquiry to decide the fate of a controversial proposed £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury is expected to last 12 days, officials said today.