You could say Cyril Swain lived almost within digging distance.

When historians uncovered the overgrown and crumbling grave of fallen soldier Private Percy Titley in a Shropshire cemetery, a campaign started to restore the headstone.

Graham Turner joined the great and good of English football management in paying tribute to former Wales boss Gary Speed.

During the war iron railings and metal street furniture disappeared in huge amounts, all going towards the war effort.

Friends of teenager Aiden Brookes, who died when a cave collapsed in Bridgnorth, have created a lasting memorial at his old school.

MP David Wright today revealed how metal thieves ripped up and stole a commemorative plaque dedicated to his wife’s parents from a crematorium in Shrewsbury.

My friend Dave Barnett, like many, seems to have absorbed the official politicians’ line that war, while evil, is inevitable.

Name plaques on Oswestry’s war memorial will have to be completely replaced in the near future.

Historians have launched a campaign to ensure every serviceman from an area of Shropshire who lost their life serving their country are finally recognised on a village’s war memorial.

The uncle of murdered teenage schoolgirl Kirstie Foster has been told he must ask the new owners of Osbaston House for permission to put a memorial to her in the grounds where she is buried.

When Nellie Emery was a teenager she was one of the many girls who worked the Staffordshire fields in support of the war effort.