A campaign to protect churches in Shropshire from the scourge of metal thieves has been launched.

Pensioner Jessie Lewis was celebrating her 100th birthday today . . . at the grand old age of 25.

Shifnal’s award-winning Christmas lights display could return to the town this year after council officials agreed to look at the costs, it emerged this afternoon.

Fuel prices in Shropshire have hit a new record high – with some pumps charging 150.9p a litre, it emerged today. The AA said today the price is breaking records.

The heady days of ‘Madchester’ are set to be revisited at this summer’s V Festival with performances by The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.

Double Brit Award-winner Ed Sheeran will join headline acts The Stone Roses and The Killers at this year’s Weston Park V Festival, it was announced today.

Posties in the Telford area were the best in the UK for ensuring first-class post was delivered the next day, new figures have revealed.

A woman was lucky to be alive today after a fire broke out while she slept at an apartment near Shifnal.

Six giant wind turbines earmarked for an estate near Shifnal would pose ‘serious consequences to the health, safety and wellbeing of residents’, an inquiry has been told.

A Government inspector has been asked to visit the homes of campaigners who claim their lives will be ruined by plans to build six 413ft tall wind turbines near Shifnal.

Controversial plans to build a windfarm near Shifnal could bring in tens of thousands of tourists creating havoc on roads in the area, a public inquiry heard today.

He was once one of Britain’s strongest and most famous men – but that did not prevent Ray ‘Willpower’ Williams falling prey to a thief posing as a water board official.

Shropshire’s punching plumber Mark Lloyd is adamant his moment has arrived as he prepares to go under the glare of the television camera tonight.

A 71-year-old man had £140 stolen from his wallet at his home in Shifnal after letting in a man who claimed there were ‘problems with the water’.

They are usually native to north America but this whiffy albino skunk was found wandering near Bridgnorth.

Residents in Shifnal are living in fear of flash floods should two reservoirs above the town burst their banks, it has been claimed.

One in five homes in Shifnal is at risk of flooding – leaving the town on the verge of its worst disaster since 1591, it was claimed today.

Police swooped on 11 properties across Telford, including four businesses, and seized a haul of stolen goods worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Three sisters who were fitted with potentially dangerous breast implants today revealed they all faced replacement surgery.

Metal thieves have struck at a family-run business in Shropshire stealing an advertising board worth hundreds of pounds in a broad daylight raid.

Rating ***** Rex M Key heads out early doors for a meal at Jim and Jane Morrison’s exciting bistro.

County waste contractor Veolia has performed a U-turn over plans to remove plastic bottle recycling banks from across Shropshire, it was revealed today.

The PebblePad e-learning system helped scoop its developers the prestigious Company of the Year award at this year’s Shropshire Business Awards – and it’s set for a major overhaul in 2012.

A motorist who died following a crash on the M54 was this afternoon named by police as Mark Taylor.

A motorist died on the M54 after his Renault Megane left the road and ploughed into a tree. The motorway near Wolverhampton was closed for several hours.

Brave soldier Simon Jones survived six months of Taliban attacks and bombings in Afghanistan to return to the arms of fiancee Hayley Allan for their wedding day.

Rail users in Shropshire faced rush hour delays today due to a signalling failure on the line near Wolverhampton.

Residents in a village near Shifnal are celebrating after a main link road was reopened following nine weeks of repair work.

An officer who grew up in Shropshire is to take on one of the top roles with London’s Metropolitan Police – by royal appointment.

Hundreds of angry residents turned out to a heated public meeting organised by a 13-year-old boy to demand the return of Shifnal’s historic Christmas lights display.