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Severn Valley Railway has launched an investigation after a steam engine pulling 31 passengers derailed near Hampton Loade station.

A landlady today launched a bid for compensation from water giant Severn Trent after hundreds of homes were left without water in a village near Bridgnorth.

Hundreds of homes in a Shropshire village were left without water after two pipes burst.

Ten neighbourhoods in Shropshire protected as “conservation areas” are under threat from neglect, decay and damaging development, English Heritage warned today.

People basked in “wall to wall sunshine” in Shropshire as temperatures in the county reached the highest so far this year.

Three foals were found to be in an emaciated state, with bones showing through their skin, when an RSPCA inspector visited a farm near Bridgnorth, a court heard today.