Dairy giant Müller has axed its biggest ever advertising campaign – just four months after it was launched in a blaze of prime-time publicity.

A rugby club, docked 20 points for leaving the field after a player was racially abused, will not appeal against the decision.

A pet cat has died after it was shot in the head with an airgun in Market Drayton, police said today.

A rugby player found guilty of making a racist comment during a Shropshire derby game today apologised for his behaviour.

Thousands of social housing tenants across Shropshire are facing a rent hike of up to £286-a-year, it was revealed today.

An amateur rugby player has been suspended for 18 weeks after being found guilty of racially abusing an opponent during a match in Shropshire.

A decision on major plans to create a £2.5 million town centre ring road and build almost 50 homes in Market Drayton has been delayed by councillors after about 30 years of talks.

A rugby player was due to attend a Rugby Football Union hearing today accused of racially abusing another player during a match in Telford.

Police in Market Drayton are joining forces with traders in the town in a clamp down on shoplifters, it was revealed today.

A block of 36 flats plagued by anti-social behaviour is to be levelled and replaced with new homes – despite objections.

Market Drayton’s traditional weekly street market could be privatised after nearly 800 years in a move which has angered traders.

Residents have given a mixed response to plans for a £2.5 million ring road in Market Drayton just days after officials backed it.

Up to 70 workers’ jobs hang in the balance after a major client’s contract was cut back at Shropshire-based food and drink industry transport giant Culina, it has emerged today.

A rugby player has been charged with racially abusing an opposing player after a match between Market Drayton and Telford Hornets was abandoned when one team left the field.

A 30-year plan for a £2.5 million town centre ring road and 50 new homes in Market Drayton today won official backing.

Anti-social behaviour has been highlighted as the scourge of town centres across Shropshire and Mid Wales on a new-look police website.

Rugby chiefs are probing claims of racial abuse after a match between Market Drayton and Telford Hornets was abandoned amid angry scenes.

When fundraisers supporting a rural Shropshire primary school were set a £10,000 target to help pay for a new demountable classroom, they thought it would take them several years to secure the money.

Motorists and residents will get to have their say on controversial parking charges at a meeting in north Shropshire next week.

The distraught owners of a dog missing from his home near Market Drayton for more than two weeks have taken to the internet in a desperate bid to find him.

Fresh tributes were today paid to a pilot killed in a plane crash in Mid Wales.

Fire safety advice has been given to people in more than 400 homes in Market Drayton after a 61-year-old woman died in a house blaze, firefighters said today.

Drug dealers have been warned ‘we are watching you’ after police launched a fresh campaign to clamp down on the drug menace in Market Drayton.

Fire chiefs today reissued a warning about the importance of smoke alarms following two serious house fires in Shropshire in just two days.

A 61-year-old woman who died when fire ripped through a semi-detached house in Market Drayton had no working smoke alarms fitted at her home, it emerged today.

Farm bosses near Market Drayton are celebrating after edging closer to an enterprise award as part of a ceremony dubbed the ‘rural Oscars’.

A woman died today after fire ripped through a semi-detached Shropshire house.

A club which has been running for more than 50 years in Wem could close unless more people use it, bosses warned today.

Sisters Louise and Claire Minshall are enjoying the lighter side of life – after losing 17 stone between them in just eight months.

A village hall is facing closure within three years unless it can boost its income to meet spiralling running costs, officials said today.