Cuts at BBC Radio Shropshire will not be as savage as first feared, bosses revealed today. The news comes after the station added 7,000 listeners in the last three months.

A BBC Radio Shropshire presenter has spent a month without drink and has made a video diary as part of an experiment for the TV?show Inside Out,which is to be screened tonight.

An online petition launched to try and stop a planned 20 per cut to the budget of BBC Radio Shropshire has only attracted just under 150 signatures, it was revealed today.

BBC Radio Shropshire is pulling in 9,000 more listeners than a year ago, according to new figures.

Letter: I refer to the letter from Allan Biggs-Williams, of Burlton, regarding Shropshire Radio playing the song Lost in France following Wales’s defeat to France in the rugby. What a lot of fuss about nothing.

Councillors in Oswestry have discussed drastic proposals to make cuts at BBC Radio Shropshire.

Letter: Since the opening of BBC Radio Shropshire many years ago to serve Shropshire and The Marches areas, I have always been an avid fan.

The leader of Shropshire Council today said he could not bear to be without his ‘trunk of funk’ as he urged the public to vent their fury at planned cuts to the county’s BBC local radio station.

Shropshire Council leader Keith Barrow has written to the director general of the BBC to urge him to reconsider planned cuts to local radio stations.

Tributes have been paid to a former Radio Shropshire presenter who has died at the age of 63.

Radio Shropshire chiefs will broadcast tonight’s Blue Square Bet North play-off clash between AFC Telford and Nuneaton live, station bosses have pledged.

Letter: I read with real trepidation the report that was highlighted in both the Daily Telegraph and the Shropshire Star reporting the threat by the BBC to cut most of the output from the very good local radio stations and put it through some “super duper” Radio 5 Live.

Executives of a Shropshire commercial radio station today revealed that they had made an offer to take over the running of BBC Radio Shropshire.