A former headteacher of Ludlow School has died after suffering a heart attack while on a camping holiday with his wife.

Tributes have been paid to two friends who died in an horrific car crash in Shropshire. The victims, named locally as Gareth Tyson, of Hodnet, and Jack Speight, of Market Drayton, died in the accident near Peplow.

These are the first images of the injuries suffered by two of the victims of a machete-wielding gang who terrorised neighbouring homes in a quiet village in Shropshire.

It is nearly a month since masked men armed with a machete and baseball bat burst into two homes near Market Drayton and put their occupants through an unimaginable ordeal.

Detectives hunting a violent gang who terrorised two Shropshire families in their own homes received more than 30 calls from members of the public within an hour after a Crimewatch appeal.

Two men who were killed in a horrific car crash in north Shropshire were friends from Hodnet and Market Drayton, it has emerged today.

Directors at a potato supplier in Shropshire lavished £5m of gifts and hospitality on an executive at Sainsbury’s for granting them a £40 million contract, a court heard.

Two young men have been killed in a horrific car accident in Shropshire.

Two terrifying robberies carried out by three men at neighbouring homes in a Shropshire village will be featured on Crimewatch tonight.

Business leaders and councillors say a potential investment that would create 600 jobs in Market Drayton is the ‘key to the future’ of the town.

A row over a travellers’ site in the Shropshire countryside took a new twist after the occupants applied for planning permission to stay put – despite council bosses serving them with an injunction.

Residents in Market Drayton have been criticised after just one turned up for the town council’s annual meeting – and did not ask any questions.

A £3.7 million business park in Market Drayton which has stood empty for almost 18 months could be snapped up by an investor, creating up to 600 jobs.

Residents in Market Drayton have criticised plans for hundreds of new homes in the town as a ‘19th century proposal’.

Plans to create six poultry units housing more than 300,000 birds near Market Drayton have been met by a storm of opposition.

Retail expert Mary Portas was in Shropshire this afternoon to talk to thousands of traders about the future of the nation’s High Streets.

Free swimming is to be offered to every single person in Shropshire in the run up to the Olympic Games. Shropshire Council is opening up all of its swimming pools for the public sessions once a week during the eight-weeks before London 2012.

Two terrifying raids on homes in a quiet Shropshire village will feature on BBC’s CrimeWatch as detectives step up the hunt for the machete-wielding gang responsible.

They have bravely done their duty for their country and now the Shropshire town they call home has bestowed on them a top civic honour in return.

Shropshire’s Labour leader has questioned the savings that will be made under a new deal to get a private multi-national firm to run five of the county’s leisure centres.

The cost of filling up at the pumps has risen to a new high, the AA said today.

Plans to privatise a Shropshire market after 800 years could sound a death knell for the weekly event inside two years, angry traders claimed today.

Hero soldiers today spoke of their pride on the eve of a special ceremony that will see them granted the freedom of Market Drayton.

Serco will have to make a ‘significant investment’ in improving five county leisure centres as part of any deal to hand the buildings over to them, council bosses insisted.

Five of Shropshire’s biggest leisure centres are set to be taken over by a private firm.

Major plans to improve a recreation ground which is the home of a number of Shropshire sports clubs have been given the go-ahead.

Shropshire’s former top soldier has taken on a new challenge, at the helm of the Shropshire and West Midlands Agricultural Society.

This year’s Market Drayton Carnival is expected to be bigger and better than ever with new entertainment planned and famous cars from film and television to appear.

Comedy legend and TV and radio show panellist Barry Cryer was today due to entertain an audience in Shropshire.

Six poultry units housing more than 300,000 chickens could be built in the Shropshire countryside.