Bosses at Coleg Powys today hit back at rumours the college was in a ‘state of crisis’, claiming student numbers were actually on the up.

Powys County Council is predicting a £2.9 million budget underspend for the current financial year, a report to the council’s cabinet has revealed.

House prices in spa towns across Shropshire and Mid Wales have almost doubled over the past 10 years – and are up to £84,000 more expensive than homes elsewhere in the area, new research has revealed.

More than 130 extra workers have been taken on by the Royal Mail in Shropshire as it gears up to deliver millions of items in the run-up to Christmas.

Cash-strapped secondary schools across Mid Wales could work closer together in ‘families’ in a bid to save money, it was revealed today.

Hundreds of sheep have been stolen by rustlers in Mid Wales over the last few weeks, police revealed today.

Burton House, Llandegley, Llandrindod Wells is a Georgian, eight-bedroomed detached stone house which has just been tastefully modernised to a high standard, set and sits in nearly an acre of grounds.

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

Voluntary firefighters will replace full-time frontline crews tackling emergencies in three Powys towns as fire chiefs “put lives at risk” in their attempt at cost-cutting, it is claimed.

Council bosses have been forced to relocate a major windfarm debate because none of its buildings are big enough to accommodate the thousands of protestors expected to attend.

Kidney patients in Mid Wales are losing out on vital treatment closer to home because of delays in bringing a dialysis unit to the town, it was claimed today.

A 55-year-old woman managed to swim to safety after the car she was driving plunged 20ft down a bank and into a Mid Wales reservoir.

Council tax increases of nearly £30 a year on average were expected to be rubberstamped today. Councillors were expected to meet in Llandrindod Wells to set the council tax resolution for 2011/12.

A woman, two children and two cats were rescued from their Mid Wales home in the early hours of today after a fire broke out in the hallway.

A bank in a Mid Wales town is to close because not enough people use it.

Sixty-six workers have been made redundant from one of Llandrindod Wells’s biggest employers, administrators today revealed.

One of the biggest employers in Llandrindod Wells has gone into administration, putting dozens of jobs at risk, administrators said today.

A Powys man who raped a 16-year-old girl as she walked home from a night out on New Year’s Day has been jailed for seven years.

A 29-year-old man has been arrested over a serious sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl in Llandrindod Wells early on New Year’s Day.

A teenage girl was the victim of a “serious sexual assault” as she left a Mid Wales nightclub on New Year’s Day, police said today.

Drivers have been warned to take freezing fog into account when making journeys over the next few days as forecasters warned there would be little respite from the wintry weather.

All 13 secondary school sites in Powys could remain open but some sixth forms may close as part of a planned shake-up of education in the county, council bosses said today.

Retirement homes in Shropshire are needed for 150 hens wanting to escape the slaughter house.

Thousands of people from across the country have flocked to a Mid Wales town which has turned back the clock 200 years.

Work on a new road layout to cope with extra traffic generated by a new Tesco store has been completed, council bosses have said.

A mobile catering unit was destroyed in a blaze in Mid Wales early today. The unit, which was located on the A44 at Penybont, near Llandrindod Wells, was reported to be on fire just after 3am.

More than 600 people have applied for 200 new jobs at a Mid Wales supermarket which is set to open next month.

Feminist author and campaigner Germaine Greer has been unveiled as the headline act for a festival in Mid Wales.

Schools in Powys could become educational battery farms if controversial proposals to close up to five secondary schools go ahead, it has been claimed.

Angry parents, teachers, and governors were travelling to Llandrindod Wells today to lobby Powys County Council in a bid to stop the “devastation” of the county’s education system.