Dyfed-Powys Police has frozen recruiting any new officers because of fears over budget cuts.

More than 100 jobs will go every year for the next four years at one of Powys’s biggest employers – the County Council, which plans to make cuts to its 5,000-strong full-time workforce.

­A Mid Wales car company has fought off competition from 7,500 other firms to be named one of the top 25 in the UK.

The controversial order to cull badgers in Wales was quashed by the Court of Appeal today.

Parents in Mid Wales have been receiving e-mail warnings about two possible paedophiles taking photos of children in the region.

Health officials in Powys are facing a race against time to secure medical cover for one its largest hospitals. Newtown Hospital is facing a shortage of staff over the next six weeks.

A woman was taken to hospital after a collision between a car and a bus carrying schoolchildren on a Mid Wales road. All the youngsters escaped injury.

Ambulance response times to 999 calls in Powys are running at their best ever, it was revealed today.

An outdoor market will return to Welshpool this year, bringing a massive boost to its trade, it was claimed today.

Officers were attacked with stones and bottles during a disturbance in a Mid Wales town. No-one was injured, but one police car and another car were damaged.

Lorry drivers are being forced to take a 20-mile detour to get through a Mid Wales town after part of a key road bridge was knocked down.

Reviewers’ rating: **** Lisa Bailey was impressed with a visit to a 16th century hotel in Mid Wales.

Residents are set to be given the chance to shape the future of Welshpool at a number of consultation events set to be hosted by Welshpool Town Council from next month.

Casualties on Welsh roads are at the lowest since records began, new figures showed today. But in Mid Wales the number of motorists killed on roads in the region has risen by almost 25 per cent in 12 months.

Norman and Fiona Potts spent 18 months clocking up thousands of miles hunting for their dream farmhouse in Mid Wales before dropping on Gwaenynog at Dolanog, near Welshpool quite by chance last June.

Hundreds of people basked in sunshine in Llanfair Caereinion to help celebrate the town’s annual carnival.

Dozens of angry campaigners today gathered outside a Mid Wales bank to protest at it having its opening hours cut.

One man and died and two other people were injured in a four-vehicle smash on a mid Wales road. The man, believed to be elderly, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash yesterday.

Police will be stepping up patrols at one of Mid Wales’s most popular summer events.

Angry protesters are planning to gather outside a Mid Wales bank branch which has had its opening hours slashed by bosses.

The National Farmer’s Union of Wales has described the Food Standards Agency’s consultation on a plan to reduce the frequency of official inspections on Welsh dairy farms as a positive step.

A 32-year-old rally driver from Mid Wales has died after his car smashed into a tree during a race.

Two arts groups in Mid Wales could face funding cuts under new Welsh Assembly Government reviews.

Hundreds of hip Shropshire and Mid Wales revellers flocked to a unique forest location in Anglesey over the weekend for a new ’boutique’ music festival created by a former Shrewsbury School pupil.

Two businesses on a Mid Wales industrial estate claim they could be forced to move or close because of a “rotten” smell from a food waste recycling site.

A row has broken out over the national stone skimming championships – with organisers of a Shropshire event and another rival event in the Lake District both laying claim to the ‘All England’ title.

A road race cyclist in Mid Wales suffered a broken hip and collar bone when he was allegedly pushed off his bike by a passenger in a passing car.

Police chiefs today backed controversial plans to transport wind turbine blades and towers along country roads in Mid Wales – saying the impact of these journeys on local communities would be small.

A spate of vicious dog attacks on animals and humans has happened across Mid Wales, including one on a young boy.

A man has died while trying to rescue his daughter from a river in Mid Wales.