Is there more illness and misfortune about these days, or do we just make more of a song and dance about it when it comes our way?

Plans were today unveiled for a £180,000 expansion and revamp of the Severn Hospice in Shrewsbury.

Lung cancer is the biggest killer at a Shropshire hospice, doctors have today revealed.

Donations to Severn Hospice have dropped by 12 per cent over the past two years, charity bosses have revealed.

About 100 motorbikes took to the streets of Telford for the annual Bugsplatz Christmas fundraiser.

A retired school teacher and charity worker from Shrewsbury has died after a battle with lung cancer.

Hundreds of Shropshire people gave it some welly to raise £17,000 for charity. Market Drayton-based Robert Wiseman Dairies teamed up with Severn Hospice to organise the first ever Wiseman Welly Walk.

A charity event is set to return to Ellesmere Comrades Club for a 10th year.

Shropshire teenager Misia Clive may be only 17, but she is already a published author having written and illustrated a children’s book.

Four Shropshire “petrol heads” are preparing to travel more than 1,000 miles in a car costing just £250 to raise money for a Shrewsbury charity.

A Shropshire man has set himself a goal of running three races – totalling 209 miles – in just two months.

Shropshire charity Severn Hospice today revealed it has fallen victim to the recession, with donations plummeting by almost a third in the last 12 months.

Staff at Shropshire’s Severn Hospice have seen the number of patients suffering from lung cancer more than double over the past 10 years.