A gang of Eastern Europeans ushered a terrified pensioner into a room before searching her house and stealing valuable jewellery, police said today.

More crime was reported in Lawley and Overdale than any other area of Telford & Wrekin in the last year, figures revealed today.

Parish council chiefs in part of Telford have axed an annual Christmas box scheme which offers free supermarket vouchers to hard-pressed pensioners.

A Shropshire couple who rescued 124 pet rats, some on the verge of dying, from a house in the Black Country, are now trying to find homes for them.

Does this five-year-old Telford boy look fat? According to the borough’s health chiefs little Cian Attwood is obese – despite the youngster weighing in at just 4st 2lbs.

An operation to tackle a huge fire which broke out over the weekend at a Telford waste management firm was entering its second day today.

A man threatened at knifepoint by two men who burst into his Telford home as he lay in bed today welcomed the jail terms handed out to the robbers. A man threatened at knifepoint by two men who burst into his Telford home as he lay in bed today welcomed the jail terms handed out [...]

A motorcyclist who died following an accident in Wellington has been named today as William Thomas Bell.

A Telford man who attacked a friend after a night of drinking has been sentenced to a community order on his 22nd birthday.

A Shropshire coal merchant told a court of his terror as two masked men allegedly burst into his bedroom in the middle of the night and jumped on him while he was in bed.

A building site in Telford became an inferno today when timber-framed homes under construction went up in flames. Read the full story and see video footage here.

Developers are blaming the credit crunch for a slowdown in construction work on a £600 million development in Telford.