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.

Police today said they were keeping an open mind, following the discovery of a body in woods near Leominster.

Police have launched an investigation after a body was found in woods in Leominster.

A Ludlow woman has been jailed for four months after making a false allegation of sexual assault against her boss after she was sacked from a restaurant.

Dramatic amateur footage of the fire which ripped through a Leominster packaging factory has been posted on the video-sharing site Youtube.

A devastating blaze at a factory in Leominster spread very quickly due to the large amount of plastics and cardboard in the building, fire chiefs have said.

Almost 100 Leominster schoolchildren were forced to miss important exams after a huge fire at an industrial packaging site engulfed the town in smoke today.

Nearly 200 people were evacuated from their homes today after a huge blaze at a Leominster packaging factory sent huge plumes of thick black smoke rising above the town.

Pictures from the chemical fire at Skymark Packaging in Leominster.

A former Shropshire schoolboy and his mother are believed to have been on board the Air France jet which crashed into the Atlantic, it emerged today.

If you could fill out an official form wrongly and get away with it, what would it be?

Two people fell off their horses and five were involved in a car crash in separate accidents at a point-to-point event.