Businesses and councillors today spoke of their anger after Shirehall bosses vowed controversial parking charges are ‘here to stay’ despite growing fears they are harming trade in market towns in north Shropshire.

Residents have given a mixed response to plans for a £2.5 million ring road in Market Drayton just days after officials backed it.

Parts of Shropshire’s unique landscape will be better preserved for future generations after conservationists landed almost £20,000 to help protect wetlands and wildlife.

A campaign to reopen a once-thriving north Shropshire railway station more than 50 years after it closed could be back on track as part of a developer’s plans to build homes, it emerged today.

A 30-year plan for a £2.5 million town centre ring road and 50 new homes in Market Drayton today won official backing.

Motorists and residents will get to have their say on controversial parking charges at a meeting in north Shropshire next week.

The Shipley Campus of Walford and North Shropshire College, near Bridgnorth, is due to launch a new full-time course in Animal Care from September 2012. There is a campus open day on Saturday, February 11. 2012.

A masterplan, which will see 750 homes built in Oswestry by 2026, is just weeks away from being presented to councillors.

A new group aimed at bringing together self-employed people and those who work from home is to be launched in north Shropshire.

A woman died today after fire ripped through a semi-detached Shropshire house.

Health campaigners have praised people for their generosity after they helped to raise £25,000 for a hospital in north Shropshire in the last 12 months.

A scheme to transform Whitchurch High Street and bring new business into the town centre is back on the cards.

About 50 homes lost telephone and internet services in parts of north Shropshire after an overhead cable was mysteriously damaged.

Solar panel users in a north Shropshire village have reported yields above the national average from the eco-friendly technology.

It is traditional for confetti to greet a bride and groom as they leave the church on their wedding day but newly-weds could soon be met by a chimney sweep from Shropshire.

A fresh wave of drain cover thefts across north Shropshire is continuing to put motorists’ lives at risk, police warned today.

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

Plans by a residents’ group to reopen a £180,000 community centre in Market Drayton appear to have been scuppered after a mystery buyer revealed he wants to make it his family home.

A special meeting will take place in north Shropshire later this month over controversial plans to create a new convenience store after more than 750 people signed a petition objecting to the proposals.

Bosses at a green burial site which has struggled to cope with increasing demand for its services have been told they can quadruple the size and scale of the business.

Thieves have stolen about 30 drain covers from across Shropshire in just one week putting the lives of motorists at risk, council officials warned today.

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

A trainee solicitor from north Shropshire has helped raise more than £600,000 for charity by cycling 400 kilometres across Vietnam and Cambodia.

Fundraisers for Whitchurch’s hospital have enjoyed some festive cheer after they received a cash boost in time for Christmas.

A fundraising Whitchurch grandmother has spared no expense in creating her very own Christmas festival of lights – and it’s all for a good cause.

An investment fund linked to Oxford University is behind plans for 11 homes at developments located in the north Shropshire countryside.

Sixth former Joe Evans has been presented with a medal by a county MP after he flew the flag for Shropshire on the international sporting stage.

A man in his 50s has died after a horror road crash in north Shropshire in the early hours of the morning which left a car and lorry in flames.

Canals and the countryside are the key to bringing more visitors to Oswestry and north Shropshire, a new report has claimed.

The Shipley Campus of Walford and North Shropshire College threw open its doors to welcome year 11 pupils from local schools to its first Taster Day on 18th of November this year.