Plans for two wind turbines close to north Shropshire villages have been given the go-ahead by the council, despite huge public opposition to them.

Torchbearers from across Shropshire and Mid Wales today expressed their delight at being invited to carry the Olympic Flame.

Scores of Shropshire football clubs are poised to win promotion this summer – without kicking a ball.

Staff at an under-threat primary school near Oswestry will never know why their bid for academy status was rejected – because the Department for Education is refusing to tell them, it has been claimed.

Burglars stole cash from an elderly couple’s home after pretending they had lost a football in their garden.

Gangs of criminals have sparked an unprecedented crimewave across Shropshire – with six homes a day falling victim to burglars.

The dark nights are here, Christmas is coming, and the crooks are out and about. Over the past few days and weeks there has been a surge of crime across Shropshire, some petty, some not so.

The deadline for members of the public to complete questionnaires on how to spend £1 million of lottery funding has been extended because so few householders have taken part.

Campaigners today said a bid for academy status for Shropshire’s Ifton Heath Primary School was now the ‘only option left’ to save it.

Shropshire Council today agreed to create an “all through” school for the village of St Martins, near Oswestry.

Parents have been urged to take up a last-minute chance to have their say on plans to close a Shropshire village school.

Supply teacher spending through agencies has more than doubled in north Shropshire over the past two years, new figures say.

Worried parents have been urged to bombard council chiefs with their objections to a plan to close a Shropshire village school.

Councillors from a Shropshire village concerned about the future of their schools are to hold a special meeting.

A blanket ban on building new homes should be imposed on a Shropshire village until its sewage infrastructure is improved, a long-serving councillor said today

Parents of more than a quarter of the children at a Shropshire primary school say they will not send their youngsters to a combined facility planned for the village, it was claimed today.

Campaigners have warned water bosses that a village near Oswestry will face an “environmental health disaster” unless the sewage infrastructure is improved quickly.

An independent Shropshire supermarket is expanding its operations over the Welsh border, creating at least 20 jobs, following major investment.

More than 50 children and parents today took part in a walk through a Shropshire village school in a protest over safety concerns

Hundreds of parents will stage a protest walk in a Shropshire village on Wednesday in a bid to prove their claims that a school merger plan is unworkable and unsafe.

Shropshire football’s ultimate one-club-man has been recognised by the Football Association.

Critics of plans to create an “all-through” school near Oswestry failed to turn up to an open evening put on by pupils at the village secondary school.

Pupils at St Martins’ Rhyn Park School, near Oswestry, are opening their classrooms up to protesters against plans to merge their secondary school with the village primary school.

RESIDENTS OF two Shropshire villages caught up in an anomaly which, it is claimed, means some pay £150 more in water charges than their neighbours today called on their MP to take the issue to Parliament.

A Shropshire villager claims residents didn’t turn up to a community clean-up event because they didn’t know it was taking place.

Governors at two Shropshire schools being considered for merger plans under an education shake-up in the county have voted against becoming a combined body.

A Shropshire village is to get a post office again and it will be open for longer, it has been revealed. Residents in St Martins were devastated last year after hearing their post office was closing.

Schools across Shropshire will be taking part in a host of quintessentially British celebrations to honour Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding.

Owners of petrol stations across the county are being hit in the pocket by Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to enforce a 1p drop in fuel duty, it has been claimed.

A Shropshire councillor has warned that there is a real threat to secondary education in the St Martins area, and is calling for people to work together to find a solution.