A ‘Ghost Town’ video highlighting the demise of Newtown’s trade over the last 12-months has been posted on YouTube.

A windfarm in Mid Wales has been temporarily closed while engineers investigate damage to one of its wind turbines.

The system of making complaints about mistakes in energy bills, about faulty meters, and other problems with your energy supplier, is working very well – for the energy companies, that is.

Little Chef is to close 67 of its 161 restaurant sites in a move which is expected to lead to the loss of between 500 and 600 jobs, it announced today.

A crunch meeting to discuss funding the running of leisure centres in parts of Shropshire will take place tomorrow, amid claims some could see their budgets cut by up to 40 per cent.

Seven people had a lucky escape when the vehicle they were travelling in left a narrow lane in Mid Wales and careered down a farm embankment.

Two people were forced to flee a flat in Mid Wales when a fire broke out in a bedroom.

An estate agents has been fined £75,000 after an elderly maintenance contractor died when he fell from a roof while carrying out work for them.

A 24-year-old man has been jailed for two years after setting fire to his girlfriend’s car in Newtown while high on drink and drugs.

Campaigners fighting against plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales have presented a 44-page document to the Welsh Assembly.

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

Work on Newtown’s long-awaited bypass will start by 2014, officials revealed.

Tourists visiting parts of Mid Wales are struggling to reach their destination on time because of traffic congestion in Newtown, it has been claimed.

Newtown’s’ Welsh Premier survival bid has been hit by a three-point deduction for fielding ineligible players in two games.

Dozens of businesses in Powys have been given tips on how to use social media to their advantage after learning about the power of online media networking at an event in Newtown.

About 400 people have signed a petition opposing plans for a new convenience store in Baschurch – despite the fact it will create 24 new jobs in the village.

Newtown’s long awaited bypass has been described as ‘high value for money’ by Government officials, it has emerged.

The decision by Powys County Council to approve an application for a dairy-cow factory has both surprised and disgusted people.

Welsh Assembly chiefs are to meet with Montgomeryshire AM Russell George in a bid to confirm the start date for construction of a Newtown bypass.

Cash-strapped secondary schools across Mid Wales could work closer together in ‘families’ in a bid to save money, it was revealed today.

It was standing room only as more than 300 people flocked to a meeting to discuss plans which could see hundreds of wind turbines, pylons and a substation built in Mid Wales.

Forty workers who lost their jobs when a Mid Wales manufacturer went out of business were due to meet union officials today.

An organisation which represents town and community councils across Wales has called on the traffic chaos in Newtown to be solved before businesses are forced to close.

A late-night prowler is continuing to target cars in Newtown and surrounding areas, stealing thousands of pounds of goods in at least a dozen raids over the past three weeks.

Council chiefs will meet next week to discuss how to persuade the Welsh Assembly to build a bypass in Newtown as soon as possible.

A Mid Wales manufacturer has been placed in administration and 38 workers ‘left in limbo’ over their future, a trade union boss claimed today.

Consultation on the shape of Newtown over the next 15 years began today.

A 20-year-old man who killed his best friend with a single punch to the face has been jailed for three-and-half years.

A 150-year-old bridge in Mid Wales closed after cracks were spotted in the structure will reopen to light traffic on Monday, council bosses have said.

One of Powys’ biggest towns has been left without an operating CCTV system for months because of funding problems and cutbacks, it has emerged.