The closure of a primary school in Mid Wales was today due to be approved in an effort to save a cash-strapped county council about £100,000 a year.

A 28-year-old man who died when the car he was in overturned on a Mid Wales road has been named locally as Edward Watson-Smythe.

Up to 100 placard-waving villagers in Powys turned out to fight plans which could see massive 46-metre high pylons built in Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Placard-waving protesters were expected to turn out in force in a Powys village today to fight plans which could see hundreds of massive pylons built in Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Landowners across Shropshire and Mid Wales will be powerless to stop massive pylons from going up on their land, it was claimed today.

Key documents on proposals to put up hundreds of power pylons across the Shropshire and Mid Wales countryside have now been made available for public viewing at council offices, libraries and civic centres.

Dozens of people were left standing outside and unable to get in to a public meeting on the Powys-Shropshire border over controversial plans to build a power line and pylons.