The Independents were the runaway winners in Montgomeryshire at the Powys County Council elections, winning 14 of the 20 seats up for grabs.

Voters are expected to dish out a mid-term bruising to the Westminster coalition parties today at the polls.

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies is to meet with Powys County Council bosses after receiving a ‘huge amount’ of complaints about Welshpool’s one-way system.

A former head of Welsh Water has claimed Wales should profit from transferring water to England.

Nick Clegg should quit as Liberal Democrat leader by the end of next year but stay on as Deputy Prime Minister, former Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik said today.

Tributes have been paid to Liberal Democrat peer and former Montgomeryshire MP Lord Emlyn Hooson who has died aged 86.

Campaigners from the newly-formed Llanymynech and Pant Bypass Action Group, which is calling for a new bypass, have set up a meeting next month with two MPs to discuss their traffic worries.

Overseas visits, punditry and business dealings have all been declared by MPs in the House of Commons’ Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

Three MPs from Shropshire and Mid Wales have opted for the same festive design on their Christmas cards this year.

Plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales will totally destroy the economy, it has been claimed.

A Mid Wales woman who was a pioneering farmer during and after World War Two has celebrated her 108th birthday.

Letter: We must be soft in the head in Wales. While North Powys had 103 wind turbines about 150 feet in height at Llandinam in the mid-90s, Shropshire, just across Offa’s Dyke did not have a single wind turbine.

More than a dozen protesters attempted to lobby Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones at one of Powys’ biggest tourist attractions.

Former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik went on to the offensive after being routed in the London Mayoral election – comparing himself to Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela and claiming he would stage an Arnold Schwarzenegger-style comeback.

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies has backed a call by the Welsh Conservatives assembly leader for the Commons to hold a free vote on overturning the hunting ban.

Campaigners fighting to get the operators of a Shropshire and Mid Wales railway line to run an hourly service have called on government officials to act.

Newtown could become a “ghost town” if more is not done to support businesses, it was said today. The warning came amid claims shops are continuing to shut because owners can no longer afford to keep going.

A two year-old boy sparked a cross-border alert after deciding to take a bus trip on his own from Montgomery to Shrewsbury.

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will lead a debate in Parliament next week over plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Thousands of campaigners fighting to halt plans that could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales will descend on Cardiff next month to lobby politicians.

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will stage a public meeting this month to discuss plans which could see hundreds of huge pylons built through villages in Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Former Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik received a £42,000 golden handshake after being ejected from his constituency by voters, it was revealed today.

Strike action by train drivers serving Shropshire and Mid Wales over pay was continuing today.

Expectant mothers in Mid Wales will have to travel further if maternity services are moved from Shrewsbury to Telford, an MP has warned. Glyn Davies said the proposals were causing “huge concern”.

A permanent kidney dialysis unit will be ready to open in Welshpool in 2012, it was revealed today.

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates was today ordered to pay more than £5,000 after being convicted of assaulting two paramedics and a staff nurse following a night out in Cardiff.

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates may not have known what he was doing after allegedly attacking paramedics trying to treat him following a fall down a flight of stairs, a court heard.

A Mid Wales politician was repeatedly hit by another man moments before falling down a flight of stairs in a restaurant, a court has heard.

Winners or losers this weekend’s reality television was packed with women who have given the fairer sex something to feel great about this morning, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

Jungle star Lembit Opik is no longer the Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Montgomeryshire, the party said today.