Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips was refused alcohol at a supermarket in Leominster, it emerged today.

This was the terrifying moment a Good Samaritan cheated death by inches after being swung against a moving freight train as it passed through Shrewsbury station.

One of the last remaining World War Two veterans in Leominster has died aged 86.

Officials at crisp makers Tyrrells are claiming a new record – after taking just 45 minutes to get the product from field to shop.

Railway ticket offices in Shropshire and mid Wales could close if government plans for unstaffed stations go ahead, it was claimed today.

A Shropshire conman tricked dozens of businesses into parting with cash by telling bosses that he was taking part in a charity run organised in memory of his dead child, a court has heard.

A Mid Wales woman has been named as one of two young drivers who died after a crash near the south Shropshire border.

A former Ludlow priest today revealed he is turning his back on the Church of England so he can lead the weddings of gay and mixed-religion couples.

Two men escaped injury after the light aircraft they were travelling in crashed on an airfield near the Shropshire border.

Police investigating a series of complaints about a man claiming to be collecting money from businesses in Shropshire in connection with the death of a young boy from leukaemia have made an arrest.

A firefighter has been jailed for life after being convicted of murder after he attacked a man at a wedding party near the south Shropshire border.

A woman who plotted with her lover to kill her boyfriend at his Shropshire home has failed in an appeal to get her convictions overturned.

A teenager who died in a car crash was today named locally as a former south Shropshire college student.

A Shropshire teenage has died after the vehicle he was travelling in left a road, ended up on its roof and went up in flames.

Two vulnerable children have gone missing from the Leominster area.

Tickets for this summer’s V Festival went on sale today. The event will see Cheryl Cole’s festival debut as a soloist.

A huge blaze has ripped through a rural hotel causing several hundred thousand pounds of damage in a suspected arson attack.

Plans for a £7.8 million primary school in Leominster have been approved by planners in Herefordshire.

Police could be one step closer to uncovering the killer of a Shropshire man murdered 15 years ago after they passed on test results to prosecutors to decide the next stage of the investigation.

A man has died after a crash involving an articulated lorry on the A49 near Leominster.

Thieves stole lead from the roof of a chapel at Leominster’s cemetery, allowing rain to get in to the building, ruining its organ, furniture and carpets.

A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering Shropshire pawnbroker George Black.

A woman accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice in a Shropshire murder trial told lies to put police “off the track”, a court has heard.

The body of a man has been discovered by a railway line causing some disruption to trains on the Hereford to Shrewsbury line.

A Shropshire pawnbroker who died after petrol and kerosene was thrown over him and set alight was planning to set fire to the two men charged with his murder, a court heard.

A 41-year-old Shropshire man who was doused in petrol and kerosene and set alight told police the names of his attackers as he received emergency medical treatment, a court has heard.

Nearly two thirds of the work force at a Leominster packaging plant gutted by fire in June have been found other work.

A pedestrian was left fighting for his life after a hit-and-run crash in Leominster.

The body of a murdered Shropshire man found dead in a burned- out car 15 years ago has been returned to its final resting place.

The owners of a stately home just over the county border in Herefordshire are inviting garden enthusiasts to stroll around its lawns, borders and individual gardens which are currently in full bloom.