A heritage railway running between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion needs to raise £100,000 to install automatic barriers following a health and safety probe.

A tame falcon has been found in a village near Oswestry – and is believed to have journeyed about 100 miles to get there.

Campaigners fighting against plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales have presented a 44-page document to the Welsh Assembly.

Plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales will totally destroy the economy, it has been claimed.

A schools shake-up will force families on the Shropshire/Welsh border to choose between their community and culture and lead to ‘artificial social engineering’, it has been claimed.

Steam railway enthusiasts from around the world were among hundreds of visitors who converged on Mid Wales at the weekend.

More than 5,000 people have responded to a public consultation over plans which could see pylons put up across Shropshire and Mid Wales, it was revealed today.

A Mid Wales police station is to close in a bid to help Dyfed-Powys Police save £13 million. Chief Constable Ian Arundale said Llanfair Caereinion station will be one of two to close.

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A 12 year-old girl from Powys has written a ­letter to Welsh Assembly First Minister Carwyn Jones in a bid to prevent hundreds of pylons being built across Shropshire and Mid Wales

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will lead a debate in Parliament next week over plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will stage a public meeting this month to discuss plans which could see hundreds of huge pylons built through villages in Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Two potential sites in Mid Wales earmarked for a power station to link windfarms to the National Grid should never have been up for consideration, it has been claimed.

Placard waving protesters turned out to fight plans for a 19-acre power station to be built in a Mid Wales village. People were left facing 50m queues at get into a consultation meeting at Abermule Community Centre.

Pupils in Powys could be forced to travel miles to study lessons in Welsh if council chiefs push ahead with plans to close some school language units, it emerged today.

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates was today ordered to pay more than £5,000 after being convicted of assaulting two paramedics and a staff nurse following a night out in Cardiff.

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates may not have known what he was doing after allegedly attacking paramedics trying to treat him following a fall down a flight of stairs, a court heard.

A Mid Wales politician has no recollection of anything that happened after he fell down a flight of stairs which left a colleague fearing he was dead, a court heard.

A Mid Wales politician was more than three times the drink drive limit when he verbally abused a senior doctor, a court heard.

A taser stun gun and a quantity of drugs have been seized by police during a raid on a home in Mid Wales. Two men have been arrested and released on police bail.

Gangs of thieves are stealing cast-iron manhole covers from roads in Powys leaving gaping holes which could have “devastating” consequences for motorists.

The devastated family of a Mid Wales woman killed by a dangerous driver as she rode her motorcycle to work have called for greater sentencing powers for judges.

Bossess of a major high street bank which has cut opening hours at three Mid Wales branches will not reconsider the move despite protests.

Hundreds of people basked in sunshine in Llanfair Caereinion to help celebrate the town’s annual carnival.

Dozens of angry campaigners today gathered outside a Mid Wales bank to protest at it having its opening hours cut.

Angry protesters are planning to gather outside a Mid Wales bank branch which has had its opening hours slashed by bosses.

Campaigners fighting to stop NatWest from reducing its opening hours in three Mid Wales towns have called on people to sign a petition.

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

Dozens of campaigners in Mid Wales have pledged to do all they can to stop a bank’s move to cut its opening hours in three towns.

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.