A man in his 50s was taken to hospital with serious injuries after getting his hand trapped in equipment at RAF Shawbury.

A car was crushed after a tree came crashing down in the staff car park of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in high winds today.

Campaigners were today urged to keep up the battle to save services at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and warned: “Once they are moved they will never come back.”

A purpose built children’s cancer centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital could be demolished under plans for a shake-up of hospital services in the county, it was revealed this afternoon.

The life story of Shropshire’s former Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite has gone straight into the top 10 of a book chart after being released by one of the UK’s biggest publishers.

Plans for a new £28 million women and children’s hospital unit in Shropshire have been formally submitted to planning chiefs.

Health bosses in Shropshire are winning the battle against bed blocking after halving the number of cases in 12 months, it was revealed today.

An office at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for new parents to register births is to open later once a week under a new trial.

Terminally ill Ben Hughes vowed today to crack straight on with fulfilling his ‘bucket list’ – and will be travelling to London at the weekend just a couple of days after being released from hospital.

Hello Shropshire. Greetings once again from the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital where I continue to receive treatment for pneumonia writes Ben Hughes.

A 24-year-old man needed stitches after he was struck on the head with a bottle in Shrewsbury town centre in an unprovoked attack.

She was born weighing less than a bag of sugar with hands as small as an adult fingernail.

A woman was left unattended on a trolley in a corridor for nearly an hour-and-a-half at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital just days before she died of a brain haemorrhage, it was revealed today.

Two people were injured – one seriously – in a crash which left a road near Shrewsbury closed.

Hospital campaigners are urging people to back a campaign to keep maternity and children’s services in Shrewsbury, with less than 900 people coming forward to sign a petition.

A man died and two other men were injured after a van careered off the A49 in Shropshire and crashed today.

Health bosses are on target to cut the number of deaths at Shropshire’s two general hospitals.

With Ben Hughes in intensive care suffering from pneumonia, his wife Ayla provides an update on his condition.

Health bosses today said they were on course to hit national targets for the amount of time it takes to treat Shropshire patients after referral from a GP.

More than 20 men, some armed with pool cues and pint glasses, were involved in a mass brawl at a pub in Shrewsbury which left one man in hospital with head injuries, it was claimed today.

Parking charges at Shropshire’s two main hospitals raised more than £1.3 million last year – sparking fresh calls today for the fees to be axed.

Three people were this afternoon being questioned on suspicion of murder after a 23-year-old man was stabbed in a Shrewsbury park.

Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski today vowed to try to secure another House of Commons debate over a planned £35 million shake-up of Shropshire’s hospital services.

Health bosses should have done more to try to secure funding to improve the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital instead of pushing ahead with plans to downgrade its services, the town’s MP Daniel Kawczynski claimed today.

Campaigners fighting plans to move services out of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital were dealt a blow today as Health Secretary Andrew Lansley warned alternative proposals would double costs.

A 20-year-old man needed hospital treatment after a glass was smashed in his face in an unprovoked attack at a pub in Shrewsbury, police said this afternoon.

Players and staff from Shrewsbury Town FC have been bringing some pre-Christmas cheer to children at home and charities abroad by handing out festive gifts.

More than 100 motorcyclists took Christmas presents to children at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and helped raise cash for charity as part of an annual toy run.

A woman escaped serious injury after her car overturned following a two-vehicle smash in Wem.

A care home in Shrewsbury could be sued by the family of a 79-year-old resident who died following a fall while on a walk to the shops to fetch bread.