The funeral of much-loved Telford ‘character’ Don Boycott was taking place today.

A teenager was assaulted in Telford as he made his way home from college, police said today.

Vandals broke into a church in Telford and smashed crockery in the kitchen.

A 78-year-old have-a-go hero was attacked with a plank of wood when he confronted two thugs attempting to burgle his neighbour’s home in Telford.

Sales at Shropshire-based cooker manufacturer Aga fell three per cent in 2011, but there was better news on the high street as Debenhams did well over Christmas.

Traders in Telford today claimed business had plummeted since it was announced that roadworks would be taking place nearby.

Great-grandmother Rose Strickland is known as Shropshire’s Karaoke Queen but has only just recorded her first CD – at the age of 87.

The parents of a 20-year-old motorcyclist who died following an accident in Telford today paid tribute to their “loveable gentle giant”.

A motorcyclist died today after a crash in Telford which left two other people injured.

A woman was taken to hospital after a fire ripped through the bedroom and living room of her bungalow in Telford in a suspected arson attack.

The firm behind iconic cast-iron Aga cookers today said it hoped a new hi-tech model would drive UK sales after a slow first half of the year.

Two rare tortoises worth hundreds of pounds have been snatched from a Shropshire family’s back garden in separate raids.

A Telford couple described as being “devoted to one another” have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.

Thieves have smashed their way into a Shropshire children’s nursery for the third time in eight months, it was revealed today, after intruders broke through three doors to get in.

A speed camera in Telford was set on fire by suspected arsonists at the weekend – just weeks after it was last targeted.

When Shropshire couple Jean Potter and Gordon Sheward met on a coach trip to Scotland in the twilight of their lives it was love at first sight.

A factory worker from Shropshire who stabbed a friend to death in a “moment of madness” has lost an appeal against his 20-year minimum jail sentence.

A speed camera in Telford targeted by arsonists is still out of action more than two weeks after the attack, officials today revealed.

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.

Profits at Shropshire cooker manufacturer Aga soared during 2010 as the firm bounced back after a slump in the previous two years.

An unemployed Shropshire man who hit a member of a band playing at a charity concert with a glass has been put behind bars for a year.

More than £30,000 worth of jewellery and cash has been stolen from a Telford home.

Emergency recycling collections were due to continue in parts of Shropshire today as council bosses continue to battle a build up of rubbish following the Arctic weather conditions which hit the county.

A development of 83 homes will be built in an area of Telford after councillors approved the second phase of the town’s Millennium Community.

It was a story which caused a sensation in Edwardian England, writes Toby Neal. Ultimately Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was on the case, and top politicians were dragged in.

More crime was reported in Lawley and Overdale than any other area of Telford & Wrekin in the last year, figures revealed today.

Letter: Higher education via university is without doubt the key to the UK’s prosperity.

A 44-year-old factory worker from Telford who stabbed a colleague to death in a petty row was today beginning a life sentence.

Scrap metal thefts in Shropshire have cost the county’s councils tens of thousands of pounds in three years, figures reveal today.

A Telford window cleaner was today fighting for his life in hospital after falling from a ladder at a two-storey house.