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

Rhythm and blues legends Dr Feelgood and ska favourites The Selecter will perform in Llanfyllin next year.

Campaigners are hopeful a crunch meeting next week will lead to the safeguarding of Welsh medium education in Llanfyllin.

This year’s Llanfyllin Show has been hailed a success by showgoers and organisers. Despite changeable weather, the crowds flocked to the showground on the edge of the town.

An 80-year-old man from the Wales/Shropshire border has vowed to carry on motorbike scrambling until the day he dies.

Sending Welsh and English speaking children from Llanfyllin to separate schools would lead to a divided community, parents have claimed.

Two young farmers from the Tanat Valley have reached the final of a national contest. Richard Lewis, from Llanfyllin, and Llion Vaughan, from Llanrhaeadr, have become a YouTube hit with their entry, Plough On, in the Farmers’ Guardian Tractor Factor contest that carries with it a chance to perform at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

Hundreds of protesters packed into a mid Wales school to air views over planned changes to sixth form education. Three rooms were used to hold the 700 people who attended the meeting in Llanfyllin High School.

Parents, students and members of the community are being urged help save their sixth form by attending a crunch meeting tonight.

Ambulance bosses have given a commitment to improving the 999 service provided in Llanfyllin after concerns were raised over coverage in the town.

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.

Residents’ fears that the town of Llanfyllin is receiving a “second class ambulance service” will be put to 999 service chiefs at a meeting next week.

A closure-threatened primary school on the Powys/Shropshire border appointed a new headteacher days before it went on the council’s hit list, it has emerged.

A shake-up in emergency cover is leaving residents on the Shropshire and Welsh border with a “second class ambulance service”, it has been claimed.

A former workhouse on the Shropshire border has unveiled its programme of activities for the next two months.

Crunch talks over the future of a former workhouse on the Shropshire border will be held this month amid fears it may have to close.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures.

Two lorries have had their fuel tanks emptied by thieves in Mid Wales – just days after it was revealed hauliers are avoiding stopping in the area due to thefts.

Two young athletes from Shropshire and mid Wales have flown out to Dehli as part of the Welsh wrestling team.

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

Three people have been taken to hospital after two road accidents on the Powys/Shropshire border. Fire crews had to cut free some of the injured.

A Mid Wales driver who left his two friends with life-changing injuries after a high speed car crash has been jailed for 16 months.

A Mid Wales town’s police station is being left unmanned and there are fears it could close altogether, it has been claimed.

Search and rescue teams were today still waiting to get into a remote cottage in Mid Wales destroyed by fire to discover if there was anyone inside.

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

A forestry worker has died in woodland near the Shropshire/Powys border after being struck by what police believe to have been a falling tree branch. Dave Francis was cutting down trees in woodland at Christchurch Parish Church in Bwlch-y-cibau, near Llanfyllin.

A motorist escaped serious injury after his car left a Mid Wales road and ploughed into a conservatory. The crash near Llanfyllin on Saturday night left the householder and his family shocked but unhurt.

A coroner has criticised bullies and websites talking about suicide following the death of a 24-year-old Mid Wales man.

A Montgomeryshire MP has raised the possible closure of up to five secondary schools in Powys in Parliament. The area’s MP Lembit Opik has tabled an early day motion.

An emergency debate on secondary school education in Powys will take place on Thursday.