A 45-year-old man had an amazing escape after his tanker plunged down an embankment in Shropshire, trapping him inside for nearly two hours.

Plans for a £500,000 village hall have gone on show in south Shropshire.

Animals, tractors, motorbikes and even a bronze crocodile are among the items being claimed through a website launched to lead the fight against rural thefts in Shropshire.

A schoolboy, who doctors predicted would never walk, will proudly carry the Olympic Torch when it passes through Shropshire next year.

A motorist who died after becoming ill at the wheel and crashing into a hedge on a rural south Shropshire road was today named.

A man has died after the car he was travelling in left the road and ended up in a hedge.

Only Fools and Horses star John Challis will join campaigners next week for a celebration of their successful bid to save a south Shropshire school from closure.

Education chiefs unanimously agreed to press on with plans to shut five Shropshire primary schools.

A sledgehammer blow was today delivered to a number of schools across Shropshire after the latest proposals to overhaul the county’s education system were released.

PLANS PUT forward to save two under-threat south Shropshire primary schools from the axe could save education chiefs up to £200,000, campaigners claimed today.

Letter: The Big Society is promoted by Mr Cameron as if there’s something revelatory about it. There is such a thing as society. Well well.

More than 45 campaigners marched through their Shropshire village led by a samba band to protest over plans to close their primary school.

More than 100 people are expected to attend a meeting at Lydbury North Village Hall tonight which is part of the official public consultation being held by Shropshire Council over plans to close eight primary schools and the Wakeman secondary in Shrewsbury. Follow the meeting here via Twitter Lydbury North School Meeting

Campaigners will take to the streets of Lydbury North as part of a public protest aimed at saving the village’s primary school from closure.

Plans to build two homes on a piece of land described as an “eyesore” in a south Shropshire village have been turned down by councillors. They were submitted by Phillip Needham.

Letter: Our MP, Philip Dunne, has spent a lot of time on local media backing up Shropshire Council line on falling school rolls and the fact that some small schools may have to close because of surplus places.

A Shropshire MP has issued a rallying call to rural communities to get behind campaigns to save their under-threat primary schools from closure.

Parents and teachers today vowed “The battle starts here” as consultation got under way on plans to axe nine Shropshire schools.

Youngsters at a Shropshire primary school which is facing the axe today gave up part of their half-term holiday to do a publicity shoot and create posters for a campaign to save it.

Arts venues across south Shropshire will pay tribute to much-loved actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died earlier this year, with special screenings of his film Brassed Off.

Residents spoke of their shock and disappointment today that nine Shropshire schools face the axe – just three years after campaigns were held to try to stop a number of other closures.

The fight has begun to save nine Shropshire schools from closure with angry parents organising petitions and planning protests.

A small Shropshire secondary school, which faced the threat of closure under an education shake-up, could be safeguarded by linking it with a primary school.

Ludlow MP Philip Dunne will meet the headteachers and parents from five threatened schools in his constituency.

Two decades after they pledged to give something back to the village where they lived – Dorothy Hunt and Mary Adams have kept their promise.

A small south Shropshire village was at the centre of a national news broadcast as comedian Tony Hawks came to the county to promote his new film.

Pupils returning from their summer holidays in a Shropshire village could be forgiven for feeling they have come back to a different school – with major refurbishment due to be finished in time for the start of term.

A Shropshire businessman who helped his “ruthless” son launder the proceeds of a £183,000 fraud which ruined two recruitment agencies was jailed for two-and-a-half years today.

Residents in south Shropshire will be in for a nostalgic treat when two silent film classics are shown accompanied by live music.

Getting people to volunteer is tough at the best of times.