Newport’s former Royal Mail sorting office is to be transformed into three student houses.

People trying to travel from Newport to Shrewsbury by bus are being left out in the cold because the mid-afternoon service is packed with school pupils, it was claimed today.

Newport’s community recycling centre could close as part of more than 200 cuts to services Telford & Wrekin Council is considering in a bid to save £9 million.

A history buff has unearthed a rare 17th Century coin while metal detecting on the edge of Newport.

Mary Portas says many High Streets are dying. She might be pleasantly surprised if she came to Shropshire.

A 65-year-old builder fell from a 30ft ladder while renovating a house near Newport, an inquest has heard.

Thieves stole a cash box containing £150 from a stallholder at an annual Christmas farmers’ market.

Fed-up farmer Mike Williamson is having to let his fields lie fallow after the closure of a small country road bridge left him with 18-mile trip to get to his land.

A desperate shortage of football pitches in Newport could force the town’s leading team to look elsewhere to play its home matches, the club’s chairman Phil Lewis has warned.

Bill Goodwin, an outspoken campaigner for pensioners’ rights, has died. Mr Goodwin, of Newport, died on Saturday, aged 89, after six weeks at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.

A referendum over plans for mass development in Newport would cost each household in the town about £2, it has been revealed.

An appeal lodged by developers behind plans to transform a garden centre in Newport into a supermarket will be heard in March. London-based developer David Brierley has made the appeal.

Newport businessman and former parish councillor Peter Searles has died, aged 77.

Schoolgirls have been left frightened by suspicious incidents involving strangers in Newport, prompted their head teacher to offer personal safety guidance to all pupils.

An 11-year-old carer who broke her leg and ankle in a playground accident and continued to care for her mum who suffers from MS has been hailed as an ‘absolute superstar’.

Hundreds of friends and wellwishers have signed up to a Facebook tribute page paying tribute to a 19-year-old who collapsed and died in Newport.

Antique lovers flocked to a ‘bobby dazzler’ of an auction today when David Dickinson brought his Real Deal show to Shropshire.

The people of Newport have been urged to support local shops – after it was announced one of the town’s independent stores will be closing.

This is the battered face of 11-year-old Shropshire schoolboy Matthew Harrison who was struck by a car travelling at just 10mph.

The Olympic torch could parade its way through Newport on the back of a tractor, it emerged today.

Two Newport schools have been named as ‘outstanding’ in the Government education watchdog’s annual report.

A referendum on developments facing Newport ‘would not be practical’, council leaders told a fraught public meeting last night.

Hundreds of people in Shropshire and Mid Wales  were today joining in the dotty, spotty Children In Need fundraising party by donning fancy dress and taking part in strange stunts.

Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard today warned Telford & Wrekin Council that plans for mass development in Newport could go before central government, unless the authority listens to residents.

Councillors in Newport have opposed plans to build more than 500 homes and a supermarket in the town.

More than 130 extra workers have been taken on by the Royal Mail in Shropshire as it gears up to deliver millions of items in the run-up to Christmas.

A terrified 14-year-old schoolgirl had to ‘attach herself’ to a member of the public to get rid of a man who followed her from school in Newport, police said today.

Bright yellow cobbles could be laid in Newport to stamp out illegal parking, it was revealed today.

Rating *** Paul Naylor finds that little has changed at his old haunt.

A chemical spill and damage to a bridge is further proof that lorries should not be using the A519 near Newport, road campaigners have claimed.