A specialist rescue group has been drafted in to sweep the River Severn in Shrewsbury as the search for a missing 36-year-old man continues.

Major plans to generate power from the weir in Shrewsbury have been given a boost after securing Government funding, it was revealed today.

According to the old saying, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

About £100,000 has been set aside by council chiefs in Shrewsbury for major plans to generate power from the town’s Castlefields weir, it was revealed this afternoon.

It’s unlikely to inspire a top 10 hit, but Shrewsbury is to get its own boat across the river so people can still get from A to B when the Porthill Bridge closes writes Dave Burrows.

Burglars who broke into Shrewsbury’s Sabrina river boat causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage, were filmed on CCTV, its owner said this afternoon.

Plans for a ferry service to shuttle pedestrians across the River Severn when a historic footbridge closes for repairs in March have been welcomed by the leader of Shrewsbury Town Council.

A ferry will transport commuters across the River Severn in Shrewsbury for five months while a footbridge in the town is closed for major repairs, it was revealed this afternoon.

Talks will get under way next week to discuss the launch of a ferry crossing set to transport drinkers across the River Severn to a Shrewsbury pub when a historic footbridge closes for maintenance in March.

A clean-up operation was under way in Shrewsbury today as the level of the River Severn began to recede.

The River Severn was due to peak in Shrewsbury this afternoon, but levels will remain high for up to 48 hours, according to the Environment Agency.

Temporary flood barriers have been put up in Shrewsbury, with levels on the River Severn expected to peak in the town tonight.

Shropshire and Mid Wales were today on flood alert with more rain expected over the next 24 hours – as residents started to count the cost of fierce winds which lashed the region.

Mark Bowers, from the Environment Agency, talks to The Severn about flood warnings across Shropshire and the defences being taken against rising water levels in the River Severn.

A Bridgnorth man has told our video team of how he held onto a woman for 20 minutes in the freezing River Severn this week.

Cygnets brought up in the remains of a castle near Oswestry have been moved to a new home on the banks of the River Severn.

Steps leading to the River Severn in Bridgnorth have been closed off after the partial collapse of an unrecorded vault.

The River Severn area around Shrewsbury was on flood alert this afternoon as Shropshire and Mid Wales felt the full force of overnight gales with weather experts predicting more stormy weather.

A woman in her 80s is recovering in hospital after she was rescued from the River Severn.

Seventy anglers lined the banks of the River Severn at Bridgnorth for the Bridgnorth AS Fur & Feather match at the weekend when the locals were put in the shade.

Drinkers could be ferried across the River Severn to a Shrewsbury pub that is facing the prospect of losing thousands of pounds a week when a historic footbridge closes for five months for repairs.

A massive festival which will see a flotilla of boats sailing down the River Severn in Shrewsbury to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next summer could become an annual event, it was claimed today.

Woooo . . . It’s Halloween and there are spooks and spirits about. And in Shropshire, they’re everywhere, writes Toby Neal.

Britain is bracing itself for a change in the weather as unseasonably warm weather gives way to a blast of cold air.

Firefighters came to the rescue of a cygnet that got a fishing hook stuck in its mouth on the River Severn in Shrewsbury.

More than 100 Young Farmers in Shropshire canoed the length of the River Severn as part of a charity challenge.

Vandals have destroyed a memorial to a father whose body was found in the River Severn in Shrewsbury.

Railings will be put up alongside key areas of the River Severn in Shrewsbury to try to cut the number of deaths in the water, officials said today.

Letter: Just prior to our premier tourist attraction, the Shrewsbury Flower Show, I took my wife in a wheelchair and my 93-year-old mother-in-law to see The Quarry.

A Shrewsbury father missing since a night out in the town over the weekend was today urged to get in touch by desperate family and friends.