Residents who have battled for nearly 20 years for a bypass around villages near Oswestry have been urged to have their say at a public meeting.

The Olympic Flame today started its 8,000-mile journey across Britain as the countdown to the London 2012 Games began.

Work to cut noise caused by lorries on a busy road was due to get under way today.

Traders in Oswestry have been warned to expect disruption when the Olympic Torch passes through the town on its way to London next month.

Campaigners from the newly-formed Llanymynech and Pant Bypass Action Group, which is calling for a new bypass, have set up a meeting next month with two MPs to discuss their traffic worries.

A man in his 50s had to be cut out of his van by firefighters after being involved in a crash with a lorry near Oswestry.

The 140-mile Shropshire Way is being extended to allow walkers to explore the north west of the county.

About 100 people will be asked to carry the Olympic Torch when it makes its way through Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin at the end of May.

Beauty queen Jamie-Lee Williams has become a cosmetic surgery company’s Face of 2012.

The River Severn area around Shrewsbury was on flood alert this afternoon as Shropshire and Mid Wales felt the full force of overnight gales with weather experts predicting more stormy weather.

For a while, the unthinkable seemed on the cards – that the Olympic torch would pass through Shropshire next summer without paying a visit to Much Wenlock, the spiritual home of the rebirth of the modern Olympics.

The wrong plot was dug for a grave in a burial ground in a village on the Shropshire border after yobs caused confusion by moving marker pegs, it was revealed today.

A conman has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after scamming an elderly Mid Wales couple out of their £200,000 life-savings.

Detectives investigating the deaths of four soldiers at the Deepcut barracks, including a teenage soldier from the Shropshire border, did not properly consider a list of hypothetical suspects, according to a report.

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Traffic dangers on a busy trunk road near Oswestry will be highlighted at a meeting this month.

Doors to a village church which were locked for the first time in 1,000 years after a series of vandal attacks could be reopened after CCTV was installed at the historic building.

DOORS TO a village church have been locked for what is believed to be the first time in 1,000 years amid claims the area it is in is under siege from vandals.

Silly songs and manic monologues will be coming to a village hall on the Shropshire/Welsh border.

Shropshire tourist attractions will be throwing their doors open for free this weekend as part of the national Heritage Open Days scheme.

­A Powys veteran who fought in the Second World War has relived memories of more than 60 years ago and spoken about how he was re-united with his brother while fighting in Italy.

Controversial plans to transport wind turbine blades and towers through Shropshire and Mid Wales are being tested – sparking anger from many councillors.

More than 1,000 youngsters at an Oswestry school took part in a minute’s silence to pay tribute to their former head girl Frankie McFall.

Villagers near Oswestry have reiterated calls for a bypass after a lorry hit a hair salon, terrifying customers inside.

A lorry has crashed into a business premises on the Powys/Shropshire border.

An unattended chip pan sparked a fire which burned a static caravan near Oswestry to the ground.

Up to 100 bats have been found living in a flood culvert under a bridge in Powys. The Environment Agency said it had found the mammals living under the bridge in Llanymynech, near Welshpool.

A twittering floral designer in the border village of Llanymynech is making the most of the recent rise in the popularity of winter weddings. Aileen Cooper of Lavender Blue Weddings tells us more.

The leader of the Conservatives at the Welsh Assembly has welcomed plans for the restoration of a post office service to Llanymynech.